texting while driving, according to a new Pew
Research Center report<\/a> [PDF].<\/p>\n
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Texting while driving is “insanely dangerous,” Clive <\/p>\n While government officials fret about how to get drivers to When we worry about driving and <\/p>\n The answer, of course, is public <\/p>\n …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dramatically increasing public <\/p>\n Texting while driving is, in <\/p>\n By all means, we should ban texting Considering that 37 percent of Millennials are currently unemployed or Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hummer to hum along no more?<\/a><\/p>\n Your car and your meat-eating: the biggest causes of climate change<\/a><\/p>\n
Thompson reminds us in Wired<\/a>. “Studies have found that each
time you write or read a text message, you take your eyes off the road for
almost five seconds and increase your risk of collision up to 23 times. The
hazard is ‘off the charts,’ says David Strayer, a University of Utah professor
who has studied the practice.”<\/p>\n
stop texting, Thompson proposes a different solution: Get texters to stop
driving.<\/p>\n
texting, we assume that the most important thing the person is doing is
piloting the car. But what if the most important thing they’re doing is
texting? How do we free them up so they can text without needing to worry about
driving?<\/p>\n
transit. In many parts of the world where texting has become ingrained in daily
life—like Japan and Europe—public transit is so plentiful that there hasn’t
been a major texting-while-driving crisis. You don’t endanger anyone’s life
while quietly tapping out messages during your train ride to work in Tokyo or
Berlin.<\/p>\n
transit would also decrease our carbon footprint, improve local economies, and
curtail drunk driving. (Plus, we’d waste less time in spiritually draining
bumper-to-bumper traffic.)<\/p>\n
essence, a wake-up call to America. It illustrates our real, and bigger,
predicament: The country is currently better suited to cars than to
communication. This is completely bonkers.<\/p>\n
while driving, or at least try. But we need to work urgently on making driving
less necessary in the first place. Let’s get our hands off the wheel and onto
the keypad—where they belong.<\/p>\n
out of the workforce, shedding that car should be all the more appealing. <\/p>\n
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