A 4 page argumentative essay that indicates the dangers of driving while on a cell phone. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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slow and failing to notice details, such as when stoplights turn green, but because they are dangerous, to themselves and to others. Virtually everyone has experienced the dangers of divided
attention. Rather than paying attention to what they are doing, people will become deeply immersed in conversation and cut a finger while cutting vegetables or walk into a door jam
because they are looking at their conversation partner, rather than where they are going. These occurrences from divided attention are annoying, but innocuous, even comical, but what if the
person immersed in conversation is behind the wheel of a car? Rather than walking into something that is right in front of them, they could fail to notice a pedestrian
or that the car in front of them as slowed down to turn. As this suggests, drivers who are distracted by cell phone conversation are not simply annoying, they are
dangerous. According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) survey taken in 2003, 30 percent of all driver use cell phones while driving (McGarva, Ramsey and Shear, 2006).
The prevalence of cell phone use while driving has sparked the interest of researchers, so there is a great deal of empirical evidence to support the contention that this is
an unsafe activity. There have been a variety of studies have investigated the effect of cell phone use on driving performance. In general, these studies have shown that
drivers on cell phones exhibit considerable increases in the time it takes for them to respond to a situation, such as decreasing speed to avoid a rear-end collision (Horrey and
Wickens, 2006). While laws have been passed in some states to prohibit hand-held phones while driving, studies have also shown that using hands-free phones have revealed similar deficits in driver