People in this era have so many busy activities to do
in their life. They often in hurry going somewhere and never forget to bring
their cellular phones to manage everything and not to miss any important
conversation. That is why, seeing somebody controls his steering wheel with one
hand and hold his hand phone on the other hand is not a strange thing for us
today. Although it is very important to always keep in touch with our
colleagues by phone, even when we are driving, I thing doing those activities
at the same time are unacceptable. I have three reasons to support my opinion.
The first reason is because phoning and driving can
prevent us from concentrating on driving. No matter how professional we are in
driving, it will be so hard for us to focus on two or more different activities
in a time. For example, when we are talking to somebody on phone we will pay
our attention to the topic we are talking about. Some people try to deny this
theory by saying that the thing which prevent us on concentrating on driving is
we do not use our two hands to control the steering wheel. Therefore, they use
hands free mode to phone while driving. However, it is not about what kind of
phoning mode we use. It is about how phoning can disturb our focus on driving.
A friend of mine, Halim, said, “Phoning while driving is really disturbing. I
cannot divide my concentration whether I have to drive or to phone. When I try
to focus on my steering wheel, it is useless. I am still thinking about the
conversation on phone.” The effect of loosing concentration while driving will
be worse for someone who is new and inexperienced in driving.
Second, using cellular phone while we are driving raises the risk of
crash. The most popular cause of getting crash that people think is our failure
to control our vehicle under alcoholic influence, without knowing that using cellular
phone while driving has worse impact. An article by Kevin McGran in the Toronto
Star talks about research presented The International Conference on Distracted
Driving at The Toronto Hilton. McGran said, “If you are driving and on a cell
phone, you are about four times more likely to be in an accident. Similar odds
to those of driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08%.” (retrieved on
February 9th, 2012 from http://www.essayjudge.com/document_detail.php?doc_id=51). Similarly, Edgar Snyder on his site served a data
statistics that in 2009, 5,474 people were killed in the U.S. because of
accidents that involved distracted driving. Another 448,000 were injured. Of
the 5,474 killed because of distracted driving, 995 involved reports of a cell
phone as a factor. However, the number of fatalities caused by cell phone use
could be much higher. For those who were injured, 24,000 involved reports of
cell phone use as a distraction (retrieved on February 14th, 2012
from http://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-accident/cell-phone/statistics.html).
Third, we can wait to use our cellular phones until we
finish driving. Some people try to make their act of phoning while driving
right by saying that they want to manage their time efficient. We have to think
it twice before we do it by thinking about the effect we will get. For
illustration, in average we need thirty minutes to go to our office by our
vehicle. Not most of us use all the thirty minutes to make a call to someone.
We usually need one-third of the time. It means we just spend ten minutes to
communicate by phone. If we lose our concentration in that ten minutes, we can
get an accident on the road. The efficiency we want will be useless if we got a
crash and make us hospitalized. Besides, we have to spend our money to pay the
hospital and make us off from work, which means we do not earn any money.
Moreover, it is also possible that we dead in the accident. Therefore, it is
better to keep our cellular phone off or not making any phone call while we are
driving.
For these reasons, using cellular phone while driving is
forbidden because it can disturb our concentration on driving, raises the risk
of crash, and it is something that can be delayed to prevent its bad effect. Using
cellular phone while we are driving just like tempting fate. Therefore, it is
better for us to think about every bad effect that we can get from everything
we will do.
Henifah Wahyuni
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