AOTW: Texting while Driving You know those commercials on TV? The ones where the girl is driving and takes a second to flash a look at her phone. In a blink of an eye, she’s gone. Just from one message. Every time I see one of those ads, I am overcome with fear: fear for myself and fear for people I love. As soon as you pick up that phone while driving, you are placing all of the lives around you in danger. All it takes is waiting. The mother of a texting while driving victim writes, “In a split second you could ruin your future, injure or kill others, and tear a hole in the heart of everyone who loves you.” When you are drinking and driving, most of the time, you don’t know you're doing it or you're not in your right mind. While texting and driving you know exactly what you're doing and in a perfectly good state of mind. I totally agree with Olin in the way that texting and driving is just as bad or worse than drunk driving. While looking at your phone going down the road, your eyes and attention are on nothing else; at least while drinking your eyes are on the road. Think about when your looking at your phone at home. Your family tries to talk to you and you hear nothing, someone does something and you…show more content… I believe that this article is a step in the right direction because of the way it appeals to the reader's emotions. Another step to solving this is the new IPhone update: the disable while driving feature. This update is a good idea and a spark for the future, but it’s not good enough. This feature allows you to say “i’m not driving” and we live in a world full of liars. Something more needs to be done and I believe just getting people to listen is one of the biggest. Radio commercials such as the TV ones to grab listeners attention or ads on spotify and pandora that make drivers stop in their tracks. This issue started with technology so why not end it with
