Wednesday 31 May 2017

The use of mobile phone while driving

Nowadays, use of mobile phone is very common, also a huge scandalous topic. Use of cell phone while driving can divert the attention of the driver and raise the chance of accidents. The government also applies some strict rules and laws, made it illegal the use of mobile phone while driving. There are many people in the United Kingdom suffer from injuries by using a cell phone while driving. In spite of such strict laws by the government, some of the citizen do not follow the rules and legislation, suffer from severe accidents. There are hundreds of search cases and all agree to prohibit the use of mobile phone while driving. Some of the accidents come too dangerous and inescapable.
Some people do texting which appears to the major issue specifically among the youth. It reduces the visual scanning of the driver from the road and become slower responsive. Hand held phone calls are strictly prohibited and banned because it is the primary reason to cause accidents. If people priorities using the mobile phone over driving concentration, then risk an accident. 
  • Use of hands-free:

More people belief, and as proved by many studies that the applications of hands-free are more dangerous and risky than use of mobile phone while driving.  If you are having a conversation, then it might be possible that you will divert your interaction instantly towards discussion, and crash the car. Use of hands-free or having a conversation with your passenger can distract you more than the use of hand held a mobile phone while driving. It causes more accidents than hand held cell phones cases.
There are many locations where it’s prohibited the use of hands-free and hand-held a mobile phone while driving in the United Kingdom. There are also some areas where they allow the use of hands-free.
Talking with passenger or use of mobile phone:
There are some different theories, for example, some studies proved that the conversation with the co-passenger precedes less danger than the use of cell phone while driving. A public university has found some different factors such as the speaking requires more attention than listening to the other person. It is concluded that the co-passenger will raise less risk of accidents than the use of mobile phone while driving. If a person speaks, the brain resources four times greater and divert the other attentions of the driver and raise the risk of the accidents.
Some of the searches said that the driver would pay more attention and get relaxation when having a conversation with the co-passenger. The use of mobile phone while driving takes four times more attention to speaking. Some other searches concluded that the risk is same at both the condition for the drivers.

  • Texting while driving:   

Texting also causes various accidents. There are only a few searches here for the texting while driving. A study from public university describes that the risk is same of texting as the talking on the mobile phone while driving. According to the survey, 87% of the people think that the texting is the leading cause of distracting the drivers and cause the accidents. Most of the states also ban the texting along with the use mobile phone while driving; it saves from the raise of risk.
Restrictions on the use of cell phone while driving:
There are 46 countries, banned the use of cell phone while driving. They strictly mention the laws and rules for the drivers to keep the little risk of accidents. It depends on the jurisdiction; a driver may have a ticket for the use of mobile phone while driving. But for the most of the drivers, such as bus drivers do not allow to use the cell phone while driving. To use a cell phone, a driver may receive more damages with contingent fault liability. Talking on the mobile phone is more dangerous than the drunk drivers. Some of the searches suppose such driving worse than drunk driving, raise more risk to crash.

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