Cell Phones on the Road

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This paper discusses how cell phone usage "on the drive" has proved to be directly responsible for escalating the risks of accidents. It analyzes how the lapse of concentration and the consequent attention loss drastically reduces the driver's visual reflexes and hence increases his reaction time entailing grave risk for himself and for his fellow travelers.

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Thesis
Introduction
The Cell Phone Culture
The Safety Issue
Cell Phone Related Accidents
North Carolina Study
Cell Phones and Driver Performance (Research Results)
Developing Trends (Hands Free and Hand Held)
Conclusion

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"The question as to the safety of cell phones is a much-researched subject and results invariably indicate a direct role for cell phones (used on the drive) in the accidents that occur. For example a general study performed by David Strayer, Frank Drews, Robert Albert and William Johnston ratified the notion that uncontrolled cell phone usage had a direct effect on the safety of the users. This conclusion has greater significance in view of the appraisal that cell phone users spend 60% of their talking time while on the drive. This only goes on to show that cell users grossly ignore the dangers involved or rather cell phones have direct influence on people and make them overlook the consequences. Cell phones seem to exercise such a controlling influence that users are virtually blinded of the consequences and often go around blissfully unaware of the dangers involved."

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