Texting While Driving

A text message while driving is a form of 'distracting driving'. This term applies not only to mobile phones while driving but also to other devices such as eating and drinking, makeup, smoking, and iPod and GPS. These activities lead to "carelessness". It allows the driver to extend his or her attention from the road to the device within their line of sight. Since new technology was invented, driving that is distracted has increased rapidly. Text messages in operation can be physically and visually affected (Hanes, Massis).

Text messages in operation have attracted more attention in the latter half of the 21st century, corresponding to an increase in the number of text messages sent. Over a year or so, about 2,000 teenagers sent a text message during driving and died. Several car accidents have been reported that cause media coverage by driving SMS, including in May 2009 a case in which a trolleybus driver in Boston sent a text message to a girlfriend. In 2008, the Chatsworth train collided with 25 people. The investigation found that the train engineer sent 45 text messages while driving.

Text messages and driving text messages, also referred to as driving, are the act of writing, sending, reading, sending e-mails, or likewise using a network of text messages on a mobile phone while driving a car. Many people, including driving authorities, text messages, are considered to be extremely dangerous and are prohibited or restricted in certain places. According to a survey conducted by the Liberty Mutual Insurance Group in 2006, more than 90 young people in over 26 high schools in the United States thought that text messages were "very" or "very" distracting . . According to a survey by the American Automobile Association, 34% of 16-17 year old teenagers admit that they are distracted by text messages, but 40% of American teenagers have a certain extent that drivers I am using it. Endanger the people

The danger of text messages while driving is not new. Nearly half of American high school students aged 16 years and older are likely to send a text message during driving, or that students driving by entering letters are more likely to drunk or drink I do not. Through these statistics, however, people often think that driving text messages can pose a life threat. So why are they still doing this? This is a question Steven Seiler tried to answer in a recent study published in Cyber ​​Psychology, Behavior and Social Network magazine. Seiler is an assistant professor of sociology and political science at the Tennessee Institute of Technology and is interested in so-called "technical bias" as a way to explain how to use mobile phones. Tools that began to make and receive phone calls connect us, and regardless of whether it is safe or not, we are always connected to other countries of the world.