For 80 years now, people have been talking on the phone, and for over 100 years, we have been driving vehicles. However, it was not until recently that individuals have tried to combine both by using a cellular device and driving. The dangers are obvious. I personally went online to research the the cause and effects of driving and texting even though it is obvious what the effects are just by getting into a car and driving on the streets. .

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             Linda Doyle, a loving mother and an avid helper for the Central Oklahoma Humane Society, became a statistic in the year 2009. Her life abruptly ended in a car accident by a distracted driver. Linda Doyle's life was cut short, simply because a driver could not put his cell phone down while driving. It shows that 6,000 highway deaths each year involve distracted drivers. While this number tends to sound extreme, knowing 6,000 lives could have been saved if only drivers would have taken seriously the dangers of driving while distracted.

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             While a person may believe they can multitask while driving and not be in any danger, they are clearly mistaken. In today's society, the terrible habit American drivers have made it seem texting and driving is worse than drinking and driving. There was study on a person able to see firsthand at how dangerous driving while distracted is. That person took a driving test created to see how emailing or texting slows down a person's reaction time. The experiment states, "On average, it took the driver four times longer to hit the brake while being distracted and driving. Therefore, the experiment's results matched up with the final results for another study by Car and Driver Magazine, which it took an unimpaired driver .54 seconds to break, yet for a person sending a text while driving, it took 70 more feet to break. Furthering Car and Driver Magazine's study, it shows that it only took a legally drunk person four more feet to stop.