Essays on Transport Page 34

“When you’re distracted, who’s driving?” A great question, that we should ask ourselves everyday before we get behind a wheel and start texting and driving.” According to a AAA poll, 94 percent of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway.” Something that we know is so…

People these days can only handle so much until they’ve had enough, even patient ones. There’s always something going on in a person’s life where there in a hurry, or late for work, and they need to be at a certain place at a certain time. It all just varies in reasons and every person…

Around 80% of teenagers today possess cell phones, making them a significant proportion of the driving population. Many experts believe that teenagers engage in texting while driving due to their lesser sense of responsibility compared to adults. However, it is essential to understand where they acquire these negative behaviors. Adults and parents should take the…

Problem Statement The increasing usage of cell phones has been accompanied by an accelerating increase in the number of traffic accidents. (Wilson & Stimpson, 2010). Those who engage in texting while driving are 23 times more likely to have an accident than those who do not. (Gupta, Burns, & Boyd, 2015). In the United States…

Distracted driving is where the attention of the driver is divided among different activities, i.e., not 100% dedicated to the task of driving. A Federal government study in 2015 indicated that roughly 11% of the freeway deaths were caused by distracted driving (CNBC, 2015). Distracted driving can involve the application of in-car infotainment system such…

Why don’t drunk drivers don’t get their license suspended or lose their license for a long time? If someone got caught drunk driving he or she should lose his or her license for 1 or 2 years and the then retake the temps. Then when they feel like a responsible adult who cares about other…

Research shows that driving under the influence of alcohol remains associated with up to 40% of traffic fatalities in the US, despite law enforcement efforts to discourage drunk driving (Hadjizacharia et al.,2010 ). When you are drunk you do not realize what choices you have made and you are not aware of how much danger…

Introduction We live in a generation where it’s important to have a car for transportation, but this had come with a downfall which is car accidents. A car accident is also referred to traffic collision. This occurs when one vehicle collides another vehicle, object, or even an animal. Car accidents always come with a damage,…

Joanne Kerr and Jack Elwell’s journal offers honest material on the Problem of drunk driving, especially on youngsters complete with its laws and consequences. Taking a thought-provoking advance to the realities and Facts on Drunk Driving, sections in their journal offer vital advice on everything from, alcohol abuse among adolescents to analyses of several drunk…

The author knows that the aggression behavior while driving is related to gender and age. Based on prior researches from Parry (1968) and Macmillan (1975) concluded that females are less likely to show aggressive driving than males. Also, those previous researches also stated that the older a person get, the less the person driving aggressively….