What You Need to Know About Texting While Driving

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What You Need to Know About Texting While Driving
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• Driving is an activity that would require our
  full attention. That fact is something that a lot
  of us take for granted because we might have
  gotten comfortable and used to driving without
  any accidents. This is the reason why a lot of
  people try to do other stuff while they are
  behind the wheel.
• The problem is that some of the things that
  people engage in while driving tend to take away
  a great part of their attention. It makes them
  less able to react to what could happen on the
  road. One of those activities is texting.
• Since mobile phones became common, they have
  caused a lot of accidents, but that increased
  even more when texting came along. While calling
  and talking on the phone when driving is already
  dangerous on its own, texting has proven to be
  even more so. When you are talking on the phone,
  your eyes are still free to look on the road, but
  when texting your sense of sight is engaged on
  using the phone as well.

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• That can be a dangerous condition when a split
  second could matter a lot already. A delay in
  your reaction could cause a lot of damage, injury
  and even loss of life. Just think about the fact
  that a car going at a moderate speed could travel
  several meters in a space of a few split seconds.
• Consider what would happen if a driver who is
  engaged in texting, while going at a high speed,
  suddenly has to steer away from something on the
  road ahead of him a few meters away. The fact
  that the drivers eyes are focused on the screen
  of the phone would mean that he would lose a few
  seconds to react in the right way. In most cases
  that would be too late already and he would
  definitely hit whatever it is on the road.
• Some would try to argue that the secret then is
  to slow down when texting. That is still not a
  solution, because it still takes away the focus
  of the driver which should be on the road and not
  on to the phone. Losing focus is something that
  should never happen when one is driving on the
  road.

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• Back to Basics- Perhaps the problem could be
  resolved once we start re-educating drivers as to
  the real basics of driving. We ought to start
  with the fundamentals by teaching young drivers
  that being behind the wheel is a full time task
  that requires their undivided attention. They
  should be thought that if they ever need to use
  their mobile phones while on the road, then they
  should park their vehicles on the side and then
  do whatever it is that they have to do.
• That is the only way that we could educate the
  future drivers of how driving and texting doesnt
  mix well in the same way that driving and
  drinking does not. That is the future that we
  should be going towards to.
• We could save a lot of lives if we try that out.