Transcript Dangers That Texting While Driving Brings And

Texting While Driving
Group 5: Shelby Jolly, Kaitlyn Cassady, Yifan Guo,
and Lee Hatchett
Dangers That Texting While
Driving Brings and a Solution
to How It Can Be Prevented
Shelby Jolly
America’s Obsession
With Texting, Even
While Driving
•
40% of American Teens say
they’ve been in a dangerous
situation because the driver was
texting while driving.
•
Cell phone usage quadruples risk
of crashing.
Distractions
 8,000 crashes occur everyday from texting.
 11% of survivors in crashes admit they were texting.
 At highway speed, for every 5 seconds eyes leave the road, a
car travels approx. 300 feet.
Deaths
•
Officers Found 3 phones in
women’s car who died in car
crash and 2 phones were open.
•
Driving distractions was cause of
3,092 deaths and 416,000 injuries
in 2010.
•
Drunk people have better break
reaction than those texting.
2011 Bans on Texting While Driving in the U.S.
More states need to have both bans.
 Public health experts came
up with the idea.
 Designed to automatically
switch devices into drivemode.
Claim
The best solution to the problem of
texting while driving is to encourage
the development of a device that is
designed to block phone service
when the vehicle is started.
 Cell phone blocker forces
people to pull off road and
park to use phone.
 Texting while driving
would be eliminated.
Works Cited
 Daily Editorials. “The Solution for Texting While Driving.” Newspaper
Contributors on Creaters.com. Web. 06 Apr. 2013.
http://www.creaters.com/opinion/daily-editorials/the-solution-for-textingwhile-driving.html.
 Federal Communications Commission. “The Dangers of Texting While Driving.”
Guide Print Email. Web. 06 Apr. 2013. http://www.fcc.gov/guides/texting-whiledriving.
 Hamilton, Michelle. “Tech Solution to Texting-While-Driving?” Runner’s World &
Running Times. Web. 05 Mar. 2013. http://www.runnersworld.com/health/techsolution-texting-while-driving.
 Morrison, Clarke. “Cellphone Use Suspected In Fatal Asheville Crash.” Ashville’s
Homepage Citizen-Times.com. Web. 05 Apr. 2013. <http:www.citizentimes.com/article/20130406/NEWS/304060016?odyssey=mod%7Cmostcom>.
Previous Solutions With
the Goal of Preventing
Texting While Driving
Kaitlyn Cassady
Solution 1: Public Service
Announcements
•It is quite common to
see advertisement and
Public Service
Announcements such
as the one to the right
in magazines,
billboards, and
commercials on the
television.
•They often contain
dramatic images or
language, or personal
testimonies.
Drawbacks to Public Service
Announcements
 Although saddening, videos and images can’t prevent
someone from texting while driving.
 After time has passed since someone sees one of these
announcements, the effect it had on them won’t be near as
dramatic and will have little effect in preventing them from
texting at the wheel.
Solution 2: Distracted Driving Summits
•The US Department
of Transportation
started funding these
distracted driving
summits in 2009.
•In the picture, victims
and their families are
being introduced and
about to share
devastating stories to
the summit audience.
Drawbacks to Distracted Driving
Summits
 Participating in these summits is voluntary, so very few
citizens would directly benefit from these summits.
 More than likely, most people who choose to participate in a
summit are concerned about distracted driving and less likely
to participate in texting while driving in the first place.
Solution 3: Legislative Action
 The map to
the right
shows US
laws on
texting while
driving as of
April 2013.
Drawbacks to Legislative Action
•People break laws all the
time, so laws do not
necessarily prevent the
action from occurring and
putting lives in danger.
•In fact, as you can see in the
chart to the right, people
admit to still texting while
driving, especially the
younger generations.
•It is hard for law officers to
spot someone texting while
driving due to an inability to
see what the driver is doing
inside the car.
Overwhelming Theme
 What is the overwhelming theme of all of these previous solutions?
THEY DON’T ENSURE THAT TEXTING
WHILE DRIVING WILL BE PREVENTED!
 The better solution is one that is able to positively prevent any
driver from being able to text while they are driving.
Works Cited
 “CDC and WHO Latest Studies on Distracted Driving.” Blank-it. N.d.
Web. 11 Apr. 2013. http://blog.blank-it.com/wpcontent/uploads/2011/08/text-email-use-us-2010.jpg
 “PSA= Texting and Driving”. Balance.net. N.d. Web. 11. Apr. 2013.
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles7/266190/projects/2395034/06d
79218e95416f41b3fd4a51eebf531.jpg
 “2010 Distracted Driving Summit”. Fickr.com.Yahoo, n.d. Web. 11
Apr. 2013. http://www.flickr.com/photos/raylahood/5020685694/
 “Cellphone and Texting Laws”. Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety. N.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
 http://www.iihs.org/laws/maptextingbans.aspx
Solution to Texting While
Driving (Part C- The
Advantages of Cellphone
Blocker)
Yifan Guo
OVERVIEW
 What is the danger behind texting while driving?
 Data from the journal of American Medical Association
showed that from 2005 to 2009, while overall crash-related
fatalities dropped, deaths associated with driver distraction
increased by 22 percent.
 The previous solutions
 The best solution
Data to Show the Danger of Texting
While Driving
 Evidence suggests most drivers haven't changed their
habits—texting while driving.
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Previous Solutions
 People have tried many ways to solve this problem including
policy and education.
 Fourteen states have laws against texting while driving. But
many drivers still have the habits that calling while driving.
 The danger of this behavior, in fact, is the distracted mind of
drivers.
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The Best Solution
 The best solution of this problem is to install a cheap device in
a car to block the cell phones signals while the engine is
running (St. Louis).
The Advantages
Three main advantages of the device like cell blocker:
 It eliminates the danger of texting while driving completely.
 It is not very expensive.
 It is convenient and simple.
Why Our Solution is The Most Effective
For Texting While Driving
 Doctors Jeffery Coben and Motao Zhu said: “Cell phone use
while driving is a problem that has been created by
technology, and solving this problem will require
technological solutions” (Hamilton 2013).
WORKS CITED
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Hamilton, Michelle. “ Tech Solution to Texting-While-Driving ”. NEWSWIRE. March 5 2013. Web.
April 9 2013.<http://www.runnersworld.com/health/tech-solution-texting-while-driving>.
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Image on page 3. Matthew Miller. “Do you text and drive? TeleNav survey shows about 1/4 of you
do”. Zdnet.July 14 2010. Web. 4/22/2013.<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/do-you-textand-drive-telenav-survey-shows-about-14-of-you-do/4248>
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Image on page 5. mini cell phone jammers(NPC130AN). Web.4/22/2013.
http://www.signalbuster.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=34
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The Solution For Texting While Driving”. CREATORS.COM. Web. April
92013.<http://www.creators.com/opinion/daily-editorials/the-solution-for-texting-whiledriving.html>
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Solution to Texting and
Driving
Lee Hatchett
Problem
 Texting while driving is a growing trend.
 It is estimated that one million people chat and text while
driving each day.
 Even though you are 23 times more likely to be in a crash if
you are texting.
Our Solution
We feel that the best solution to
this problem is the creation of a
device that is designed to block
cell phone service when the
vehicle is started.
Other Solutions
 Many states have already adopted laws that make texting
and driving illegal.
 There has been many public service announcements that
have done a great job of bringing attention to this growing
problem.
There needs to be more companies
like AT&T that publicly support the
campaign against texting and
driving.
Call to Action
Attention all cell phone providers
and technology experts! It is up to
you to develop this device and put it
into place.
This device has the potential to save
many lives and make roads a safer
and better place for everybody!
Works Cited
 "Texting and Driving Prevention." Ad Council. N.p.. Web. 15
Apr 2013. <http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Work/CurrentWork/Safety/Texting-and-Driving-Prevention>.
 No To Texting and Driving. N.d. Graphic. zazzle.comWeb. 15
Apr 2013.
 It Can Wait. N.d. Graphic. AT&TWeb. 15 Apr 2013.
Combined Works Cited (MLA)
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“CDC and WHO Latest Studies on Distracted Driving.” Blank-it. N.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013.
http://blog.blank-it.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/text-email-use-us-2010.jpg

“Cellphone and Texting Laws”. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. N.d. Web. 11 Apr.
2013.

Daily Editorials. “The Solution for Texting While Driving.” Newspaper Contributors on
Creaters.com. Web. 06 Apr. 2013. http://www.creaters.com/opinion/daily-editorials/thesolution-for-texting-while-driving.html.

Federal Communications Commission. “The Dangers of Texting While Driving.” Guide
Print Email. Web. 06 Apr. 2013. http://www.fcc.gov/guides/texting-while-driving.

Hamilton, Michelle. “Tech Solution to Texting-While-Driving?” Runner’s World & Running
Times. Web. 05 Mar. 2013. http://www.runnersworld.com/health/tech-solution-textingwhile-driving.

http://www.iihs.org/laws/maptextingbans.aspx
Combined Works Cited (MLA) Cont.

Image on page 5. mini cell phone jammers(NPC130AN). Web.4/22/2013.
http://www.signalbuster.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=34.

It Can Wait. N.d. Graphic. AT&TWeb. 15 Apr 2013.

Matthew Miller. (Image on page 3) “Do you text and drive? TeleNav survey shows about 1/4 of you do”. Zdnet.July 14 2010. Web.
4/22/2013.http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/do-you-text-and-drive-telenav-survey-shows-about-14-of-you-do/4248

Morrison, Clarke. “Cellphone Use Suspected In Fatal Asheville Crash.” Ashville’s Homepage Citizen-Times.com. Web. 05 Apr. 2013.
<http:www.citizen-times.com/article/20130406/NEWS/304060016?odyssey=mod%7Cmostcom>.

No To Texting and Driving. N.d. Graphic. zazzle.comWeb. 15 Apr 2013.

“PSA= Texting and Driving”. Balance.net. N.d. Web. 11. Apr. 2013.
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles7/266190/projects/2395034/06d79218e95416f41b3fd4a51eebf531.jpg

St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The Solution For Texting While Driving”. CREATORS.COM. Web. April
92013.<http://www.creators.com/opinion/daily-editorials/the-solution-for-texting-while-driving.html>

"Texting and Driving Prevention." Ad Council. N.p.. Web. 15 Apr 2013. http://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Work/Current-Work/Safety/Textingand-Driving-Prevention.

“2010 Distracted Driving Summit”. Fickr.com. Yahoo, n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013. http://www.flickr.com/photos/raylahood/5020685694/