Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Cell Phones and Driving Safety

The author presented the information based on facts,facts including statistics and sources of magazines stating research.The main idea of this article is to show that talking on the phone while driving is worse than driving while drunk.To prove the main idea the author used other sources of information such as magazines and editorials to show a unbiased report. The author states based on research that drunk drivers were more aggressive than drivers on the phone, and that the drivers talking on the phone were sluggish and tend to react slower than the drunk drivers.There were signal words that helped me locate my answers, there were quotation mark, commas, dashes, and semi-colons. The signal words that helped with my answer were said,while,and found, and in addition to.The dashes helped me the most because it was used to define the words i didn't know,a word such as inebriated.The response of the cellphone industry was that "cell phones don't cause accidents,people do". John Wall's explained that a decline of accidents were are impressive based on the per million miles driven.

3 comments:

  1. People that talk on the phone are just asking for trouble. Use a blue tooth head peice.

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  2. How much does a blue tooth cost anyway, like 20-30. save a life get a blue tooth

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  3. Great job. Good points and comprhension of the article. I think that the people who commented on your blog are missing the point. Having a hands free device does not alleviate the problem; you are still distracted.

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