Topic > Texting While Driving: The Effects of Driving While…

Car and Driver Magazine conducted a study on how long it takes to react and stop a car while legally intoxicated and responding to a text message . The study shows that reaction times increase when legally intoxicated, with a blood alcohol content of 0.08, and increase further with texting. The article explains that texting is more dangerous than drunk driving because you get distracted in three ways instead of just two when you're under the influence of alcohol. While you are distracted by texting, you are cognitively distracted, unable to focus on your driving skills. You are also visually distracted by taking your eyes off the road. Last but not least, you get manually distracted by taking your hands off the wheel to send a text message. Manual distraction usually does not occur during drunk driving. Teens make up the population with the most texting while driving, and eleven teens die every day. (Samakow) Overall, studies show that teens are affected by these numbers more than adults, but texting while driving is on the rise among adults. Many studies show how texting while driving affects teenagers, but overall it shows that texting while driving is highly dangerous for all people. Many people are killed or injured daily due to texting