Week 3: Cell Phones and Driving Saftey

1. Even though I am sometimes guilty of driving while on the cellphone, I agree that it should be illegal unless you have a blue-tooth or and hands free speaker phone. I can say it makes you unaware of the road and you can easily get into an accident. When people talk on the phone or text, it is dangerous because not many people are experienced drivers and accidents do occasionally happened, but can be even better if people did not have to use their cell phone while driving.

2. I think this article written by this author was based by facts and has been proven that using the cellphone can be just as dangerous as operating a car drunk.

3. The main idea of this article is to show that no matter what you use, it is still not safe to use a phone even if is a hand-free device, its harder for you to drive a car.

4. According to the Utah Study, reactions of drunk drivers are different from the reaction of drivers using cellphones because drunk drivers are more aggressive and people who are on cellphones tend to be sluggish.

5. The signal words that helped me were " in addition, and found". The researchers found that talking on a cellphone slowed down reaction time.

6. Cellphone industries response is to educate drivers and show them the least way of distractions when driving to stop more and more of these accidents that occur because of cellphones.