Just Keep Driving, Just Keep Driving, Driving, Driving

           As we all know, texting kills multiple people each year, or at least causes multiple accidents each year. This article brings up a new point that may possibly help with these kinds of accidents. These article writers believe that new technology is required to help with these teen crashes from texting. I will address these issues later, but I think that through all these different advertisements that many people put a lot of effort in to, shows that this is an issue that is extremely important. Thus, if anyone had common sense, they would not text. I can say that I have had the self control to not text and drive at the same time.

            One of the main ideas in this article is that we should have some type of machine in our car or on our phones that stop calls or texts from coming in, and this would link up to the car, and thus stop the calls and redirect them to an answering machine. Likewise with texts, it would store the texts, and wait until the car ignition is off before the texts would come in. One of the hardest things, I think, for teenagers about this, is that it might be an invasion of privacy, because with this device, what is to say that parents will not install listening devices onto their phones, or a global positioning system that allows them to track them. I am not saying that this is likely, but for those paranoid parents who thinks their child is being corrupted heavily by society, which they usually are just for your information.

            Although people think they need to look out for us teenagers, I think that teenagers will make their own decisions, because at this age, we start to think of us independent of our parents, and so we find these intrusions or attempts to “babysit” us as kind of offensive. I know this may seem contradictory, but I still do not think that teens understand the dangers of actually texting and driving, because an accident has not happened yet, so it will not ever happen. These thoughts of immortality are usually the deaths of most of us. One reason that teenagers might be like this is a quick look at how their parents drive. When obtaining a license, a teenager should be driving with his or her parents for a long time, and in this time, it is easy for them to pick up most of their parents habits, whether good or bad.