The Dangers of Using a Phone while Driving

The world as a whole is changing and the changes that have been noted in the recent past is the availability of internet to many thus opening the world. People now a day have cell phones unlike in the past when you had to be next to your home or office phone that had a long wire attached to it. Despite of the major role that it plays it also has its negative side. This is a word of caution to all those people who are users of the cell phones and also drive. They are advised not to mix the two as they totally do not go along; they cannot be done simultaneously.

The things that are mostly done with the mobile phones are making and receiving calls as well as texting. This however can also be done by the PDA phones that are mostly touch screen phones; they operate with the help of the screen that is hypersensitive to touch. The Tablet is no exceptions in this category as they being types of phone they also pose a great danger to their users who use them while driving.  It is for this reason that different states in the world all over came up with different jurisdiction to help deal with this- the many accidents that are caused by the driver having to use his or her phone while driving.

The functions that the cell phones can too perform are as the using the navigation system for locating places as well as watching a video. However these cause distraction to the driver and pose a great danger to the driver, the passengers as well as the pedestrians. The type of distractions are as the visual distraction whereby the driver will have to lose concentration from the road and face a direction that he or she is not heading to, the cognitive distraction whereby the driver totally loses concentration.

This is mainly because most of the human brains cannot multitask with a lot of ease but rather one will have to outweigh the other and get more concentration an example is when the driver is indulged in a serious phone conversation and loses his concentration. This will mainly depend on the type of the conversation; maybe he has been told that his family is in great danger. Also a type of distraction that is also common is the manual distraction. It is because of the above reasons that great penalties have been put in place in many states for those who shall be found guilty of the offence of driving while using his or her phone.