A Driving Distraction Addiction

"Distracted Driver Awareness Month" --Article
Keri Brenner. (2011, April 04.) Nine Cited in First Day of "Distracted Driver Awareness Month". Rohnert Park Patch. Retrieved 2011, April 4th from http://rohnertpark.patch.com/articles/9-cited-in-first-day-of-distracted-driver-awareness-month




Article is mainly about how the state of California has cracked down on their cellphone use while driving. This month, or April, is Distracted Driver Awareness Month. They've cracked down and have given several tickets to where their ticket count has nearly doubled. When They've given a ticket to someone the sum of the ticket would be roughly $159 dollars. That's outrages, and should help convince drivers to be more careful while driving.

Opinion: We'd all love to say that we've never texted, or taken a phone call, or made a phone call when we were driving, but chances are we're all guilty of at least doing ONE. Our cellphones are more of a distraction than lets say, a handsome or pretty person walking down the street. In the article police were cracking down on the "no cellphones while driving." It also says that a fine would be about $159 dollars! Not even one text or two, or a phone call would amount up to that, so would it really be worth making that phone call, taking that phone call, reading that text, or sending a text? To me, I wouldn't think so, but you know there's going to be at least one person who will do one or all of those things while they're supposed to be focused on the road. I'm happy that the California Office of Traffic Safety is putting that on there in California. Maybe Alaska should do the same. Do you know how many teens would be given a ticket if the officers in Alaska would really crack down on that? How many accidents would be prevented? I know for a couple people that if their cellphone wasn't such a distraction, then their car insurance would be a lot less, they would have their vehicle still and they wouldn't have been grounded for a long time. Even when we're busy doing other things, like driving, our cellphones are still playing a big role in our lives. In my opinion, i think we need a technology cut. meaning we need to cut ourselves away from our technology, especially our phones, for a LITTLE bit.