Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Cell phones and driving safety

  1. Using previewing skills, I new that this passage was going to be about whether driving while on cell phones is worse that driving drunk, because of this was written in big blue letters.  
  2. I think that the evidence presented by the author was fact because he wrote about different studies like the driving simulator were it showed that driving while on a cell phone was actually more dangerous then some drunk drivers. 
  3. The main idea of the article is that it is actually dangerous to drive while talking on a cell phone, and is more likely to cause a accident then we think.
  4. Drunk drivers are more aggressive while driving according the Utah study and people talking on the cell phone tend to be more sluggish.
  5. Is and Like were the signal words that helped me locate my answers.
  6. Hand-free cell phones are just as dangerous as handheld cell phones because what is distracting to the driver is the fact that you are having a conversation.
  7. I think that the cell phone industry really does not have a big position on this subject because they don’t control how we use their cell phones and they don’t tell us how to use them, so they cannot be blamed if we get into an accident while driving and talking on a cell phone. 

2 comments:

Professor Love said...

Good job.I would double check paragraph 5 to find the signal words. Also,paragraph 12 does state the position the cell phone industry takes. Please reread it.

meglobz said...

i agree its are fault for being on the phone not the phone company.