Arguements

=ARGUMENTS ABOUT WHY WE THINK TEXTING AND DRIVING IS WRONG=

====** We all agree that texting while driving is wrong and dangerous. We wish that people would think before they decide to text while driving. Here we wrote facts from many websites showing just what exactly so dangerous about this. Our hope, through this, is to hopefully give you some information that will make you think twice before you text on the road. It's alright for people to text to communicate, but driving is not the right time to do so. In conclusion, we want all people to live safe, happy, and healthy lives, so we ask you to please not text while you're drving. Thank You!!!!! **====
 * ~Team 7**

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) Jim Forsyth 2011 "Texting while driving doubles reaction time" || Akina || [] || Akina || [|__http://www.distraction.gov/stats-and-facts/__] (Source: University of Utah) 10-26-2011 || Brynn || [|__http://www.distraction.gov/stats-and-facts/__] (Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) 10-26-2011 || Brynn || http://www.insureme.com/auto-insurance/drivers-7-important-facts-about-texting-could-save-your-life || Brynn || http://www.nationwide.com/newsroom/dwd-facts-figures.jsp (Carnegie Mellon) || Brynn || http://www.textecution.com/fast_facts.php || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brynn || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-accident/cell-phone/statistics.html__] || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brynn || =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cell Phone and Texting Laws = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">October 2011 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brynn ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Evidence** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Citing** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Student** ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have some form of cell phone or texting restrictions, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Precious, Tom. “Push Is on to Make Messaging While Driving a Primary Offense.” Buffalo News. 10 May 2011 : n.p. SIRS Researcher. Web. 23 Sep 2011 . || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Akina ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">35 percent of drivers admit to having texted or read a text message. 67 percent of drivers have also admitted to talking on the phone while driving. || Hasley III, Ashely. "Driver Survey Shows Heavy Cellphone Use, Texting Behind The Wheel." SIRS . SIRS, October 5 2011. Web. October 20 2011. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hstarticle-display?id=SBLESSED267-04598&artno=0000317477&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Texting&title=Driver Survey Shows Heavy Cellphone Use, Texting Behind the Wheel&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dylan ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A boy and his baby sitter were driving in the car. The baby sitter was texting and then "Crash"!! The boy was killed in the crash. This happens everyday. || Gardner, Greg. "Distracted Driving Is a Growing Menace." SIRS . SIRS, July 31 2011. Web. October 20 2011. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-articledisplay?id=SBLESSED267-04598&artno=0000316206&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Texting&title=Distracted Driving Is a Growing Menace&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N> || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dylan ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/06/28/why-texting-while-driving-should-be-banned-worse-than-drink-driving/__] || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taylor ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Texting, or emailing, while driving doubles reaction time and makes drivers more likely to miss a flashing light, according to new research. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.reuters.com/assets/prin__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">t?aid=USLNE79500W20111006
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reaction times slowed from one to two seconds with no texting activity, to three to four seconds while texting, the study found. || =Study: Texting slows driver’s reaction time=
 * October 5th, 2011**
 * John Egan**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using a cell phone use while driving, whether it’s hand-held or hands-free, delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Driving Distracted
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drivers who use hand-held devices are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Driving Distracted
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Though 95 percent of drivers surveyed said texting behind the wheel was unacceptable and unsafe, at least 21 percent admit to doing it anyway. || =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drivers: 7 Important Facts about Texting That Could Save Your Life =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37 percent || =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Driving While Distracted: Statistics To Know =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Textecution is a program that runs on Android phones and uses the onboard GPS to know how fast the phone is moving. If it detects the phone traveling at speeds that indicate it is in a car, Textecution disables the texting functions of the phone. || =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Textecution puts an end to teen texting while driving =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talking on a cell phone while driving can make a young driver’s reaction time as slow as that of a 70-year-old. || =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cell Phone & Texting While Driving Statistics =
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Text Messaging: 34 states, D.C. and Guam ban text messaging for all drivers. 31 states, D.C., and Guam have primary enforcement; the others, secondary || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talking on a hand-held cellphone while driving is banned in 10 states (California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and the District of Columbia. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.iihs.org/laws/cellphonelaws.aspx__] =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cellphone and texting laws = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">October 2011 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brynn ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">technology companies are racing to bring texting-safety apps to market-smart phone || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-clean-copy?id=SGWCARVE267-0-2495&type=ART&artno... || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Akina ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">block texts from being sent or recieved while the owner is driving - gps || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-clean-copy?id=SGWCARVE267-0-2495&type=ART&artno... || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Akina ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A company name CITA opposed bans on using mobile phones to talk or text during meetings. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-clean-copy?id=SGWCARVE267-0-2495&type=ART&artno... || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Akina ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">some tests done in simulators suggests talking on the phone leads to no accident / texting does lead to an accident || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-clean-copy?id=SGWCARVE267-0-2495&type=ART&artno... || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Akina ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We should just ban texting while driving right? It is not that easy. The powerful economic interests and different levels of government are involved. || White, Joseph. "Eyes On The Road." SIRS . SIRS, September 16 2011. Web. October 31 2011. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hstarticle-display?id=SBLESSED267-0710&artno=0000296354&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Texting while driving&title=Eyes on the Road&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N> || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dylan ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The U.S has more distracted tourists than potholes. People are most distracted by cellphones. Some of these people are teenagers, wild drivers, or normal everyday people. || Stuller, Jay. "Deadly Dialing ." SIRS . SIRS, June 2010. Web. October 31 2011. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-articledisplay?id=SBLESSED267-0710&artno=0000304794&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Texting while driving&title=Deadly Dialing&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dylan ||

Stuller, Jay. "Deadly Dialing ." SIRS . SIRS, June 2010. Web. October 31 2011. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-arti display?id=SBLESSED267-0- 710&artno=0000304794&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Texting while driving&title=Deadly Dialing&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N>. Stuller, Jay. "Deadly Dialing ." SIRS . SIRS, June 2010. Web. October 31 2011. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-arti display?id=SBLESSED267-0- 710&artno=0000304794&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Texting while driving&title=Deadly Dialing&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N>. Stuller, Jay. "Deadly Dialing ." SIRS . SIRS, June 2010. Web. October 31 2011. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-arti display?id=SBLESSED267-0- 710&artno=0000304794&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Texting while driving&title=Deadly Dialing&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N>.