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Distracted driving is a growing issue that is increasing the number of road accidents. Drivers are often distracted by mobile phones, calls from friends, music playlists, and daydreaming instead of paying full attention to the road. This lack of focus can prevent drivers from reacting quickly to emergencies and has led to many accidents. While new technologies like Bluetooth and hands-free devices have aimed to reduce distraction, studies show that even mentally distracted drivers are still at high risk of accidents. Stricter laws around mobile phone use, drinking and driving, and obeying traffic rules are needed to curb this dangerous problem and save lives.

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Rogerian Essay

Distracted driving is a growing issue that is increasing the number of road accidents. Drivers are often distracted by mobile phones, calls from friends, music playlists, and daydreaming instead of paying full attention to the road. This lack of focus can prevent drivers from reacting quickly to emergencies and has led to many accidents. While new technologies like Bluetooth and hands-free devices have aimed to reduce distraction, studies show that even mentally distracted drivers are still at high risk of accidents. Stricter laws around mobile phone use, drinking and driving, and obeying traffic rules are needed to curb this dangerous problem and save lives.

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DISTRACTED DRIVING

A new issue is uprsurging nowadays due to which the number of road accidents are
escalating, which is distracted driving. As the individuals are not fully focused
on the road or driving but they are distracted by several stimulis like text
messages on the mobile phone, call from a friend, scrolling for their favourite
song intheir playlist and many more. Distracted driving is actually when person's
mind is not fully attentive and is focused on something else too like daydreaming
or paying more attention to answering friends. It is mainly because of this reason
that road accidents are increasing day by day irrespective of the advancement in
the roads infrastructure and advancement in machinery. As drivers are engaged in
other work while driving they concentrate less on the road due to this they cannot
act in the emergency situation like if a small puppy comes from no where then they
cannot control the car and would lead to fatal accident. I, think putting a
complete ban on using digital gadgets while driving would work best for it.

However, this is not only the cause of accident on road their are several other
irresponsible behaviors of drivers which results in misshappening. Some drivers are
habitual of driving car since they daily go to job driving their cars on the same
road each day. As per the pyschology of human mind they get less concerned about
things which they do daily because it builds up confident in them that no one can
beat them in the thing they regularly do. The same case scenarios develops with
drivers, as the time passes they become overconfident in them because of the
experience they got from driving daily on the same path and they create a mind set
that they will never meet with an accident resulting in less attention paid towards
road. Thereby, leading to deadly accidents. Besides this, reckless driving,
drinking and driving and crossing the speed limits are the other major causes of
accidents. Hence, there should be ban on drinking and driving and also on using
mobile phones while driving which will help alleviate the number of accidents on
road.

Nevertheless, because of elevating accidental rates majority of individuals avoid


using phone as they think that this is the major distraction which causes fatal
road accidents taking life of drivers. Even drivers concur that this is a life
taking habit which have already taken many lives and should be prohibited in order
to save people's lives. There has been several studies conducted on this issue
revealing use of mobile phones as predominant cause of collisions on road. One
study of Keisbye in 2012 illucidates that, people who drive while on a call have
possibility to collide four times more than normal fully focused drivers. In
addition he also state that using digital devices at the time of driving lowers the
mental ability of a person and it reaches at same level as one who drank four
drinks of alcohol. Brain of human beings cannot do multitasking efficiently as it
distributes attention and nothing can be done accurately due to less concentration.
Thus, this is one of the main reason behind reckless driving and it is proposed by
several individuals that use of smart phones while driving should be outlawed.

Furthermore, masses say that due to the technological advancement this issue has
declined. With the introduction of bluetooth devices which are easy to operate
without being held in hands this problem is addressed like airpods have made easier
to call a friend while driving, even cars steering wheel has a button to pick up
the call and talk via bluetooth mode which have reduced the chances of putting
hands off the steering. Despite this, a lot of people argue that this technical
gadgets are not enough to tackle this problem. Because even though a person have
tightly held the steering but is mentally absent would definetely increase the risk
of smashing up with things. Therefore, it is clear that these hand free devices
wouldn't work to resolve this problem and they are as deadly as hands held devices.

On the other hand improvement in the framework of the roads would help curb this
problem. Mostly people think that due to well developed roads the chances of cars
crashing has reduced as the roads have different lanes making it easier to drive.
Unfortunately, this solution has worked other way too. As mostly drivers pay least
concentration on the road thinking nothing would obstruct him as new built highways
are wider with more lanes reducing density of cars and therefore number of
accidents. But owing to this mind set up of drivers they are more likely to
daydream while driving and become mentally absent. Suddenly, they loose control on
the steering, turning car to different lane and finally smashing another car or
just hitting the footpath killing the people walking on it. So, this advancement of
roads infrastructure have led to taking the lives of innocent people walking on
sidewalks who are at no fault. This type of accidents are soaring on daily basis
leading to deaths of more number of individauls who actually follow the traffic
rules by walking on the footpaths.

To put it in a nutshell, I pen down that ban on using e-devices while driving
whether they are hands free or hand held should be implemented to save lives of
people. This action by the higher authority will surely decrease the collisions.
According to me, Government should also make more strict laws for those who drink
and drive, who cross the speed limit and also for those who break the traffic
rules. These interventions will help solve this issue completely.

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