Gina Kim of McClatchy Newspapers in Sacramento, CA discusses the dangers of texting while driving. I found this article to be like all the rest. Of about 90% of the American adults who thing texting while driving should be outlawed, 57% of those people admitted to doing it themselves. With 300,000 texts being sent per minute in the U.S. it is only reasonable to assume many of those people are in operating motor vehicles during a commute, gridlock or a busy highway. With all these articles I have read the facts are very clear – dialing your phone or texting triples your risk of an accident. You can only focus on so much at a time and when you are operating such a potentially deadly weapon as a 1 ton moving object, that should be your biggest priority in my opinion. But as the title states we want to know why people still do it. The answer is quite simple. It is for the same reason as they do anything else they know they shouldn’t do. Many people think that the rules apply to everyone but them. They are more responsible or a better driver and can handle texting while driving with ease. The ‘it won’t happen to me’ attitude is a common view had by people that are now in jail for killing innocent people by not paying attention on the road. It just doesn’t make any sense…but then again a lot of things in this world don’t make a lot of sense and texting while driving is just another example.
Blog #9 – Article 8: Texting While Driving – Why Do People Do It? (McClatchy Newspapers) March 15, 2010
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