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Persuasive Essay On Distracted Driving

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“Distracted driving kills. The friends, family, and neighbors of the thousands of people killed each year in distracted driving crashes will tell you it is very serious safety problem”(Distracted Driving 7). You see it everywhere people are talking to someone looking at something else ot the big one texting. Texting and driving is the biggest distraction, we get a text and we have to read it immediately and write back. Studies has shown that you can drive the length of football field in 5 seconds going 55 mph. Therefore, the solutions to distracted driving is to use an app and this new technology called textalyzer. In addition, Many people in today's society are on their phones. They are walking, talking, and even driving while they are on their phones since, “some people still don't know how dangerous driving, but still choose to do so anyway”(Distracted Driving 7). They don't realize that those 5 second can prove fatal. Many people die each year because of distracted drive, for example, “In 2014, 3179 people were killed, …show more content…

Textalyzer lets police check the phones activity. Therefore, when there is a accident police can check if they were distracted or not. The textalyzer can ‘Make people… afraid to put their hands on the cellphone’ (Richtel 23). If people are afraid then there will be less accidents. If there wasn't a texalyzed then there could be more accidents. Textalyzer helps people detect who cause the accident Evan Lieberman died in a car accident and his father “Spent months trying to gain access records, which ultimately showed that the driver had been texting” (Richtel 25). Texting kills, lifes are away in two seconds because someone wants to text instead of paying attention to the road. Studies has showing that drunk driving is more dangerous than texting, for instance, “Texting while driving 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk”(Distracted Driving 6). Textalyzer could regulate these

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