Cellphones and Driving

More and more people are getting into major car accidents from such a minor piece of technology; our cell phones. I personally think that using a cell phone, in any way while driving is not a good idea. When you are focused on that, you aren’t paying too much attention to the road. Causing accidents. People could easily die over such a little thing like making a phone call on the road. But there are some times where they really do come in handy and we do need them. But overall, I do think it’s a dumb idea that I think should have a law against it.

A few states already have passed the law against using your cell phone while driving. And I’m glad about it. In my opinion, we need more states to pass the law too; including Delaware. It’s just so dangerous; because, when you are texting one of your friends, or someone from your family back; not only do you have to take your eyes off the road, you have to take at least one of your hands off the wheel. And let’s not forget a major thing you have to take off from the road, which is your focus. If you’re too focused on what you’re typing when you text, you wont know what’s going on, on the road. All of those things can cause an accident. I would say that making a phone call would be a better than texting, but then again; it still takes away your focus. The only thing that compensates for it is the fact you can have both hands on the wheel.

I’m not completely against it, but I just think it’s a very dangerous. Maybe it could start out small, by simply banning just texting while you’re driving. And then slowly reach out and try to ban phone calling. Even having those hand-free cell phones that hook up to your car would be better. I think it would just be best if they did something about it and soon.

Cell phones are actually a very important thing. And some people think by taking them away, just because you’re driving is dumb. Some also think that this kind of thing isn’t really important. But to tell the truth, it’s a very important thing. Nobody likes getting in car accidents, and nobody likes getting hurt. You could easily take someone’s life in a blink of an eye. It’s a scary thing if you think about it. I understand that sometimes you almost need your cell phone in the car. Because what if you’re an adult that has children home alone, and they need to call you because something very bad has happened? That would be the downside to all of this. But like I said, if they made hand-free cell phone usage legal, that would help too. It would probably decrease the rate of accidents too.

Overall, I think that using your cell phone in the car is a very bad; yet good thing. I do think more states should take this more into consideration than they have been. It has it’s upsides and downsides, but if you take a look at the whole picture, I think it would make it a lot safer on the road if we minimize something even as little as this.