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Another reason why phone and driving should not go together can cause a person to be more reckless while driving
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if someone says something on the phone to you it can lead to many different thing on the road it can make a person think and not notice the red light and it an ongoing car and cause injury or worse to both of the drivers you can be enraged and cause harm to you or others
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It is safer to just stop with phone and driving because they don't mix right in the end and they will be less mistakes on the road because of it the best way to see it is that there other people lives on the road and it wouldn't be cool if someone die because if one text or call
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Today I will be writing about if driving your car to work or school, if u should be able to use your cell phone. Most or all humans have cell phones in the world and use the phones every chance they get. But not all humans drive. You may be asking yourself if driving and texting is safe. Well follow along and i'll give you the inside scoop if it's right or wrong.
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Just in the united states 227 million people are licensed drivers. There are about 13.2 million young drives in the united states, between the ages of 15 and 20. For 2018 257.3 million smartphones are being used everyday. Most of the humans who have a smartphone drives a motor vehicle. Average number of car accidents in the U.S. every year is 6 million. More than 90 people die in car accidents everyday. 3 million people in the U.S. are injured every year in car accidents. Around 2 million drivers in car accidents experience permanent injuries every year. Thats alot of car crashes there are just in the us.
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The NSC has found out that every 1 out of four car accidents are caused by texting and driving. Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.
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According to the AAA poll 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting or calling on the phone, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway.
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If you are still asking if using your phone while driving is safe its not.
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If there is a text or call that is really important than pull over to the closest store or parking lot. Not only will u be hurting or killing yourself you are also damaging other people's lives too. We learned a lot from this research put the phone down while driving.
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People should not be able to use their phones while driving under any circumstances.
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Many people would agree that it shouldn't be allowed to use phones while driving, due to the distraction from the road
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and gives you less time to react if something happens.
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Using a phone while driving brings more dangers to one of the most dangerous and daily tasks of a regular person.
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Using your phone while driving is a distraction from the road which is really dangerous not just for the driver but those around the car.
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In many cases of car accidents are caused by distracted driving with phones and this is most common with teens. These car accidents aren't just dangerous for those involved but can also cause death in many incidents.
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Another reason why people shouldn't use their phone while driving is because, it would give the driver shorter time to react if something happened
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such as a pedestrian running into the street because if you hit them it will be the drivers fault and could get into legal trouble or worse yet the driver gets into a car crash and dies. People shouldn't use their phones because it only causes trouble.
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Should people be allowed on their phone while driving? I think they shouldn't
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that causes a lot of wrecks and other bad things.
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26% of car wrecks are caused by the driver being on their phone and not paying attention. When you're driving and on your phone at the same time you're risking other people lives and yours too. There should be a new law that says there should not be any electronics placed in a moving vehicle. Plenty of people been killed in an accident because some careless human being decides to drive and text and take their eyes off the road.
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Another thing if you're going to have your phone in your car turn it on do not disturb or silent so when you receive a phone call or text you will not be distracted.
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If you get caught by the police texting while driving there should be a huge fine to make people learn their lessons. Texting while driving is basically like drunk driving either way there's an accident that's about to happen, but it can never lead up to that point if you just put the phone down.
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All it takes is just one little glance at your phone then BOOM!! An accident you just created. Just do everyone a favor and put the phone on hold. There's been a lot of innocent people dying because someone wants to be irresponsible and text while driving
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1. Today the majority of adults and teens own or operate a cell phone. The average person is claimed to spend about three hours on a cellular device daily, for others that number is much higher. With cell phones constantly being upgraded and advancing, it makes it more tempting for individuals to buy them and cause people to use them more than what is necessary. This leads to adults and teens to even be tempted to use them even while on the road. Should drivers be able to use a cell phone in any captivity while behind the wheel? Even if it's for something as simple as only using it for GPS directions. It's all up to the way the driver uses that privilege.
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The usage of a phone while driving should be avoided as much as possible, especially texting and driving.
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When you think about it, texting and driving is the equivalent to driving intoxicated or under the influence.
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By taking the chance and texting while driving Your putting you and innocent pedestrians in danger.
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Too many people have lost their lives because someone was not being cautious,
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being on their device and not paying attention to the road, distracted by their phone trying to reply to a simple message that can wait till you are safely parked or not on the road.
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Why risk getting a ticket and having to pay money or even getting arrested or possible taking a life just by being careless and making a little mistake you could have easily refrained from.
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Your only increasing the chance of you getting into an accident and endangering someone's life, and if a wreck does happen is likely insurance would cost more because of the situation. You being in the wrong and caused the wreck, meaning you would have to pay more for the insurance
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Texting and driving is not only very dangerous it has been made illegal but yet there are still individuals who feel they just need to use their phone while behind the wheel.
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In conclusion, the overall usage of a cell phone.....that's why teenagers shouldn't drive with the cell phone an be on the phone because u can be focused on the phone with messages and calling an get in a crash an that's good if You got a GPS but phone are not good while driving in the dark it can costed Accident especially when you can't see an got the light in yo face an it's always good to have another person in the car with a phone an your driving.
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Driving is something that most people in the world do. It is important to a person's daily life, because driving is used to go from place to place. Phones are also something that most people have, and deem important. Phones can be used to browse the internet, and to be able to contact someone in an emergency
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However using the phone while driving is not only a bad thing, it is dangerous.
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Using the phone while driving is usually referred to as Distracted Driving. Distracted driving is dangerous for not only the driver, but also those around the driver
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The average amount of time it takes for a person to read a text is around five seconds. If the driver is traveling at 55mph (88.5kmh), which is standard highway speed, in those five seconds the vehicle had covered a distance of 403ft (123 meters). The situation on the road could easily have changed in that distance which could cause an accident. According to the CDC, out of the 2,443,000 vehicle injuries that occurred in 2015, 391,000 of the injuries are due to Distracted Driving. Then out of the 35,092 vehicle deaths that occurred in 2015, 3,447 of the deaths are due to Distracted Driving (Distracted Driving | Motor Vehicle Safety | CDC Injury Center). Although these may not seem very large in terms of percentage these numbers are still quite big.
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Despite both driving and phones being very important parts of a person's life using a phone while driving is a very dangerous thing.
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Due to how dangerous it is to use a phone while driving people should not be looking at their phone at all while driving, but hands off things such as Bluetooth connection that were set up before the vehicle is in motion should be allowed since a person is not taking their eyes off the road.
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Distracted Driving is an incredibly dangerous thing to do, and that is why using the phone while driving should not be allowed.
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Everywhere you go what do you see, you see your everyday family walking around with smartphones, or a businessman on a call for a meeting with a phone, but why do people do that while driving. All across the nation people everyday are using their cell phones while driving and causing more traffic collisions in the past decade or so then compared to drunk driving accidents
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People should not be using a cell phone while driving
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its a major distraction for the driver and can cause someone to get hurt or even killed
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If today, you walked into a normal public high school and go into a class, you would see a lot of students sitting bored and playing on sometime of phone or device. Now imagine that person doing the same thing when driving, hard to imagine but
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a lot of the accidents that occur when people or using a cell phone is caused by teenagers and young adults.
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Many states such as Georgia in the U.S. have implemented a law which requires its people to drive hands free which means if you are caught driving with a phone in hand, you will be punished with a hefty fine or jail time. A study was set in place to determine the rate of increase on cell phone related crashes each year and the number is a shocking 1.6 Million crashes and of that, 390,000 are either injured or killed
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Cell phone related crashes are the number one causes of death inside the U.S's borders for the past 10 years and needs to be solved fast.
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The best way to regulate and control this dilemma is by implementing a law similar to Georgia's hands free law to every state to ensure that no one will drive and use a cell phone.
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The only instance to which a person should be using a cell phone while driving should be by law enforcement or if you are a passenger in the vehicle.
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The driver needs to focus on the road at all times to ensure that his/her passengers or even just him/herself arrives to their destination on time.
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Even when a driver is not using a cell phone, they are still distracted by a passenger even when they are trying to show the driver something on another phone and cause an accident.
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The driver has only one job and is to keep all souls in a vehicle safe and secure at all times and should not be distracted.
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Over the years, phones and other technology have taken over the lives of society. They have become a major necessity to society. People go everywhere with them and it often feels as though you've lost a child of you don't have it with you. Although phones are of great use to every human being there are also a major drawback. People do not know how to discipline themselves to put away their phones, especially while they're driving in a vehicle.
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Drivers should not be able to use their cellphones while driving.
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On any given day, about 660,000 americans will attempt to use their phones while in a vehicle according to FFC. According to CDC, texting and driving caused a whopping nine deaths and over 500 injuries in the year of 2018. One out of four car crashes are caused by texting and driving. Many studies have shown that texting while driving doubles the chance of getting into an accident
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The obsession of phones have caused way too many casualties than needed.
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Many laws have been established to prevent the rise of deaths caused by texting and driving.
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About sixteen states including the U.S. ban all hand-held cell phone use , while others have placed restrictions regarding cell phones. Some states like, Connecticut, Georgia , New Jersey, and Maryland have placed penalties or fines for people that are texting while driving. These laws and penalties have shown to be pretty effective, the rates of casualties due to cell phone use have gone down tremendously.
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People in this society should also research ways to help them prevent the usage of the phones while driving. People all over the world should take their lives more seriously. Answering a text, taking a video for snapchat, whatever the case may be should not be the cause of their fatal death.
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In today's day and age, as technology grows more and more sophisticated, the likelihood of someone owning both a car and a cellphone gets higher as the years progress, cell phones can be used for just about everything such as texting, talking, playing games, and such forth. Sadly, people are choosing to be on their phones while they are driving.
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Not only is this decision incredibly dull, for you could injure yourself but others as well, but there are many reasons why using a cell phone while driving is dangerous,
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One of the biggest reasons why using your cellphone while driving is dangerous is that texting and driving not only puts you in danger but will put all the drivers sharing the road with you at risk, too, because you are unable to navigate the road while looking down at the phone in your lap.
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Did you know "that an estimated 1.5 million car accidents in the U.S. in 2018 according to the National Safety Council? The U.S. Department of Transportation reported that cell phone use while driving kills 3-000 to 6,000 people every year"(Center and Statistics, 2020) in Georgia alone. Texting and driving make you twenty-three percent more likely to be involved in an accident. Also, "texting while driving will delay your reaction time more than when you are under the influence" (Center and Statistics, 2020)
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If you simply cannot resist the urge to check your text messages (or to simply be on your phone) while driving, take the time to pull off of the roadway and park your vehicle before picking up your cell phone.
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Using your phone while driving is a worse combination than a chicken sandwich and mayonnaise. Most people with common sense know this. You may pull it off a few times, but one day, you will look away at the wrong time.
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There are many reasons why you shouldn't use your phone while driving.
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One reason you shouldn't text and drive is because you won't be focused on the road as much
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You're at more risk of getting into a car wreck. The brain is focused on the next message you're about to send, rather than the road. Driving requires as much focus as possible. Even something as small as checking the time can put your life at risk.
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Another reason is that you could possibly kill someone with your vehicle due to not being focused on where you are going.
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You could swerve in a different lane unintentionally and hit another driver, causing them to possibly spin out of control, or drive into a wall or tree. The best thing to do is to turn your phone off while operating a car just so you can focus on your next destination. It doesn't matter how much experience you have. Accidents happen when you least expect it.
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Finally, the last reason you shouldn't driving and text is because you could unintentionally get lost because you made the wrong turn, or you missed your exit
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It is so easy to miss your turn even without a phone in your hand, so imagine actually being on it. Some people have short attention spans; they can't multitask like others. Unless you're using your gps, you shouldn't even be looking at the screen.
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Many deaths have occured because of the driver's false confidence of being able to text and drive. There's no way to finesse your way around it. Statistics show that you're more safer in an airplane than in an actual automobile. Driving is already risky as it is. By you using your phone, you instantly put your life in even more risk, and also others. So many more people would be alive today if they would just turn their phones off before turning on their car.
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As technology becomes more ordinary, people are finding phones more needed than ever. However there are drawbacks. With phones being so prominent in today's world texting and driving has become a dangerous habit a lot of people participate in. Because of this a question has occurred, should drivers be able to be on the phone and drive?
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Drivers should be able to be on the phone and drive
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because talking and driving is done all the time
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and cell phones are too important to be completely inaccessible in the car.
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One of the reasons why drivers should be able to access their phone is due to phones being the main way of communication in the modern world.
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To completely cut off that communication when driving could be detrimental for people who need to be prepared to respond to people ASAP.
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There's also GPSs on phones that people use for navigation that would now be banned due to making phones illegal to use during driving.
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The other reason to keep phones legal while driving is the actual lack of danger while driving and using a phone.
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While texting and driving is dangerous
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Just calling and driving should not be an offense. As people talk and drive with each other all the time. And being on the cell phone is essentially the same thing.
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So in conclusion people should be able to use their phone while driving. As it is not any more dangerous than talking and driving as well as it being a necessity for fast communication.
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In recent years, many states have passed laws in which drivers are not allowed to use their cell phones while driving. Georgia, in particular, passed the Hands Free Law in 2018; this helped establish that phones cannot be used while driving, only when the car is parked. Since the release of this law, accidents due to phones have greatly diminished. Although in today's society cell phone have become a critical part of everyone's life, they have also become the epitome of distraction and addiction
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The dependence people have on their phones has become so great that they are willing to risk their lives, driving blind for a couple seconds, going 60 mph, just to text back " LOL."
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Although these law are in place, they still don't stop people from checking their notifications on their phones.
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Even with a two second checking of ones phone, it can cause their chances of crashing to become higher. If you are driving at 55mph and you looking away for 5 seconds, it'll be like driving the distance of a football field. This means that you possess a large risk to not only yourself, but everyone driving around you. 1.6 million people each year are involved in car crashes and a large portion of these crashes are due to cell phone usage.
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One of the obvious consequences of texting and driving is one's inevitable death.
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Texting and driving, or just merely scrolling through your notifications puts yourself and others at risk since it's basically like driving blindfolded for a couple seconds. But people don't realize this, they'll see a clear road and then decide to pick up their phones. However, anything can happen within those few seconds. Texting and driving poses a threat to others on the road as well,
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even if the car crash wasnt fatal on your end,
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you could have taken someone else's life.
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Another consequence of texting and driving involves non-fatal injuries.
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Although some car crashes on non-fatal, injuries are prevalent. Nearly 390,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving. A broken arm, concussion, lacerations, are some of the many injuries that are common after a collision. But there are some injuries that are far worse. Some people end up paralyzed, mute, and some even lose recollections of past memories. Imagine forgetting who you were, your family and friends, all for a simple text message.
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On a different note, these car accidents are indeed preventable.
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States like Georgia are stepping up and passing laws to reduce the number of car accidents with the hands-free law. As previously mentioned, the number of car accidents have declined. Fatal crashes were down 6 percent in 2018, said Harris Blackwood, director of the Georgia Governor's Office of Highway Safety. And for those who are caught using their phone while driving are given a pretty hefty fine. Additionally, on a more market scale, there are hands free devices available for purchase such as bluetooth earphones for calls and windshield phone mounts. Furthermore, the newer cars that are coming out are now embedding technology into the cars system to prevent drivers from using their phone. Drivers can easily browse through music, answer phone calls, and navigate to their desired destination.
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A life can be lost by simply responding to a text or peeping at a notification. It's not worth it to risk your life just because you decided to look at your phone for a couple seconds. It's also not worth it to be on life support the rest of your life because you were recording a video to upload on snap that never ended up being uploaded. You also have the life of others in your hands when you make the decision to use your cellular device while driving. It's like driving under the influence but you're blindfolded. Life is already short to be texting and driving. It can wait, it's better to come home to your family than to not come home at all.
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As of 2017, an estimated 270 million people have a cell phone in the United States. Cell phones have been an everyday object that is addictive and is used for the majority of a day. In particular, cell phones are commonly used while driving, even though it sounds dangerous.
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Driving requires focus on the road as well as the driver's surroundings and using cell phones while driving prevents that from occurring
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Cell phones should not be used while driving because of the many dangers that tend to result from it.
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