Potential Research Topic- Texting While Driving

This is a very interesting topic because I recently started driving. Also cell phones and technology have been growing in popularity. People mostly teens are addicted to their phones; they can't go 5 minutes without checking it. This is dangerous because if s person checks their phone while driving even for a second there's a chance they might get into an accident. Cell phones are constantly beeping signaling a notification this will cause people to look away from the road and become distracted.


Source Citation-"Texting While Driving." Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Detroit: Gale, 2015. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 9 Oct. 2015.

Summary-
Cell phones are being increasing popular; this is because many advances have been made. Cell phones are smaller and so inexpensive almost anyone can have one. Cells phones although they are very helpful they are also very harmful. In the past years more people are getting into car accidents because of the phones
 

Details-A report published by NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) ,5,474 people were killed in the united states because of distracted driving incidents and 448,000 were injured in these accidents. In 2010 a new report showed 3,092 deaths due to distraction-affected crashes.

The Pew Internet and American Life project published a 2009 report that focused on teens and distracted driving. They found that nearly 75 percent of teens 12 to 17 years old own a cell phone. Of these, 34 percent admit to texting while driving, 48 percent of teens say they were passengers in a car when a driver was texting. 

As of 2012 thirty-two states and the District of Columbia ban cell phone use by all new drivers. Ten states ban talking on a hand-held cell phone. Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia have enacted texting-while-driving laws that ban texting while driving.

 Questions- Do teens or adults text and drive more?

In the next few years will texting and driving be banned in all states and what will the consequences be?



A word I don't understand-Ageist

What is stopping you from understanding the word- I have never heard of this word before

Definition- Discrimination against persons of a certain age group

Question you can pose to your peers in a discussion-Should people be allowed to text at a red light or is it just as dangerous?