Cell Phone Use Should Be Banned While Driving Cellular telephones are fast becoming an important factor in highway safety. "Cellular phones are becoming increasingly universal, marked by a 1,685% increase in the number of users from 1988 to 1995." Continue Reading...
" New York State has imposed stricter laws regarding cell phone use which call for a ban on wearing even head-sets or hands-free phones. These laws also require drivers to pull up if they need to answer a phone. But people have serious objection to t Continue Reading...
Cell Phone Use While Driving Stating the problem Cell phones and concentration while driving Texting while driving There has been a lot of controversy regarding cell phones and individuals using them while driving during recent years and while m Continue Reading...
Cell Phones Public Places Technological advances during the last fifty years of human history have given billions of people instant access to unprecedented communication methods. Individuals are no longer limited to letter writing and sending teleg Continue Reading...
Discussion Post ReplyI agree with your assessment related to the difficulty in policing distracted driving, particularly as it relates to cell phone use within a motor vehicle. As you noted, the statistics are alarming considering the cell phone rela Continue Reading...
Cell Phones Should Be Banned In the contemporary era, cell phones have turned out to be one of the most essential every day requirements. There was a time when possessing a cell phone was regarded a luxurious thing. However, in the present times, it Continue Reading...
This is a clear sign that conversational distraction is cognitive, that is to say, conversation does not affect how people look at the road, but affects how many new and/or dangerous situations are noticed by the drivers. With this level of distract Continue Reading...
These two cases were examined at two discount rates (5% and 10%) which generated four permutations in total. More specifically, the basic outputs for the analysis relied upon four Kaldor-Hicks Tableaus (representing two impact cases and two discount Continue Reading...
, 2006). The authors used "meta-analytic" techniques in this research; twenty-three studies were fed into the meta-analysis strategies and the outcome indicates that there are "clear costs" associated with driving and speaking on a cell phone simulta Continue Reading...
However, the basis for prohibiting cell phones actually goes a lot further than a simple comparison of cell phone use by drivers and every other possible driving distraction. Specifically, the most recent neurological evidence suggests that talking Continue Reading...
cell phone use while driving. Specifically it will discuss the increased use of cell phones in the United States, and the dangers of driving while talking on a cell phone. Talking on a cell phone while driving is dangerous. Studies show it is just a Continue Reading...
Wireless telecommunication technologies are rapidly becoming a significant concern in regard to highway safety (Sundeen, 2001). Almost ninety million people subscribe to wireless telephone services, and eighty-five percent of those subscribers use th Continue Reading...
These are subjective values that represent the altruistic view of ethical behavior, and they apply to corporations as well as individuals within the corporations. Thus, the employees of the organization that sell phones to individuals who fit the p Continue Reading...
Mobile Phones One of the most important concepts in public safety is the idea of "accidents." That is the wrong word for a collision that was avoidable either through attention or preventative measures. There are very few accidents on the roads. The Continue Reading...
In that regard, a deliberately quiet exchange between colleagues on a matter important enough to discuss in the library is usually permitted in person. But for the rules necessary to address wholly inappropriate types of conversations (and volumes) Continue Reading...
Problems to be addressed: There are several problems associated with the issue of cell phone use while driving and the ineffective regulations to restrict the use of mobile phones on the road. First, the increased use of these devices while drivin Continue Reading...
Texting While Driving Speech Outline Description of the audience for your speech: The audience for this speech would likely be comprised of members of the legislature, preferably members of Congress, who could enact a law in all 50 states because o Continue Reading...
Cellphone Driving The Dangers of Using a Cell Phone While Driving Statistics connecting cell phone usage with dangerous driving have becoming increasingly readily available. Evidence suggests that cell phones cause drivers to become distracted, to Continue Reading...
Automobile Drivers be Prohibited from Using Cellular Telephones? Although penalties vary according to jurisdiction, driving while intoxicated is against the law in all of the 50 states because the practice is known to be dangerous to the perpetrato Continue Reading...
Therefore, it recommends legislative restrictions irrespective of strictly economic factors. Hennessy, D.A. And Wiesenthal, D.L. (2005). Contemporary Issues in Road User Behavior and Traffic Safety. Toronto: Nova. This source is a trade book auth Continue Reading...
CMV Cellular Phones CMV's and Cellular Phones Drivers of CMV's: Restricting the Use of Cellular Phones On Friday December 2, 2011 a new rule was enacted by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), in conjunction with the Continue Reading...
Individual Automobile Safety Technology Engineering Ethics The overarching contribution of the automobile industry to the United States economy is considerable. Approximately 1.067 million intermediate job are engaged in the direct support of the i Continue Reading...
Young Drivers Perhaps it is unfair to label all younger drivers as reckless and dangerous. At the very least, they are most certainly less experienced and adept at driving, on average. Since a firm and enforced age is the best way to regulate who ca Continue Reading...
Practicing Safe Driving: How to Prevent Accidents on America's Roads In 2006 alone, the total number of automobiles registered with the U.S. Bureau of Transit topped 135.3 million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). With the amount drivers on the road, one Continue Reading...
Secondly, that a positive correlation exists between the instruments CNSVS and the PMRC-Q and therefore improve road craft awareness. The alternative null research hypotheses are that: Firstly the intervention program did not produce any significant Continue Reading...
HR Policies for a Small Company to be Included in the Employee HandbookAbstractThis paper addresses issues related to policies for a small company. The issues addressed herein include dress code policy, technology use, fraternization, and attendance. Continue Reading...
Banning Smoking in Cars With Children: Moral and Legal Issues Five states in America, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine and Oregon, and also Puerto Rico -- have made it a crime to smoke in cars when children are there, and more states are consi Continue Reading...
Medical Conditions -- There are a number of factors that can increase the likelyhood of type-2 diabetes: hypertension, eleveted cholesterol, and a condition called Symdrome X, or metabolic syndrome (combination of obesity, high cholesterol, sedenta Continue Reading...
Culture and media cannot be separated and hence advertising has a strong impact on culture and vice versa. It is interesting to see how media influence behavior and at the same times, accepts cultural changes and reflects the impact through advertisi Continue Reading...
police officers have discretion when dealing with domestic violence? Answer: YES with qualifications. An in-person survey might work best here because citizens don't all see police as protectors of society; some see them as threats. Discretion is l Continue Reading...
Logical Fallacies STATMENT: By all means, teenagers should be the best drivers in the world. Their muscles and their reflexes should be quick enough to handle anything. FALLACY: False dichotomy The arguer sets up the situation so it looks like the Continue Reading...
Flex Work Literature Review Gone are the days of single-income households being the norm. The costs and other economics of today basically mandate that many families have both parents working and this leads to the need for day care, school transport Continue Reading...
Liberal Position in the U.S. Senate Why Lift U.S. Embargo on Cuba It is time for the United States to lift the embargo imposed on the island fifty years ago. The embargo is a bad policy that helps neither the United States nor Cuba, and does not ac Continue Reading...
Social Science Theory & Methods MAIN STUDY QUESTION: What role does digital deception play in the establishment of trust, confidence and authenticity regarding the use of graphics and images in the online media sources we use? The world is gett Continue Reading...
Adolescents Aspects of Adolescent Development and Psychology What impact does technology have on today's adolescents? Technology is inextricably linked with adolescent existence. In the past decade, technology has become pervasive amongst adolesce Continue Reading...
Remarketing Obsolete Products -- the Case of Telephone Handsets Profiting from Obsolescence Finding New Markets for Handset Telephones Analysis of the American Telephone Handset Market Telephone handsets, once a symbol of upward mobility and cont Continue Reading...
SOPA & PIPA Legislation File sharing involving copyright infringement began as peer-to-peer operations, sometimes with the involvement of a central server that acts as a search engine. Recently there has been a rise in file sharing where the inf Continue Reading...
One wrong decision can destroy years of hard work and requires years to recover. Failures to innovate come in two forms: failures of imagination and failures to execute (Govindarajan and Trimble 2010). With certainty, investors want growth, growth, Continue Reading...
This even happened in Athens in 1993 when its municipal government imposed conditions of a cholesterol check. They sought to accept only those employees having acceptable level of cholesterol. Employers later had to abandon this policy due to public Continue Reading...
