Don't Drive Over the Speed Limit
You can't get a speeding ticket if you don't speed. It costs you nothing to slow down, and you might even save money on gas and brakes. Also, you set a good example for other motorists and for anyone who is in the car with you. The accident you prevent or the life you save just may be your own.
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Make the Pledge to Drive Cell Free
Cell free is the way for me while I’m on the road.
I understand the dangers I put myself and those
I share the road with when using a cell phone while driving.
I pledge not to drive while using a cell phone.
I understand the dangers I put myself and those
I share the road with when using a cell phone while driving.
I pledge not to drive while using a cell phone.
Why Cell-Free Driving
Why Cell-Free Driving
Distractions are the leading cause of motor vehicle crashes and the number one distraction is cell phones. The use of a cell phone while driving is a very high-risk behavior with a significant impact on society. This is due to the vast number of people engaging in the behavior and the cognitive distraction drivers experience when engaged in cell phone conversations. More than 50 peer-reviewed scientific studies have identified the risks associated with cell phone use while driving.
* CTIA – The Wireless Association reports there are more than 270 million cell phone subscribers, this is up dramatically from 100 million subscribers in 2000. An estimated 110 billion text messages were sent monthly in 2008.
* A Nationwide Insurance public opinion poll showed 81 percent of the public admitted to talking on a cell phone while driving. And NHTSA estimates that 11 percent of drivers at any point during the day are talking on cell phones while driving.
* Drivers who use cell phones are four times more likely to be involved in a crash. Two different studies found this same conclusion, a 1997 New England Journal of Medicine examination of hospital records and 2005 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study linking crashes to cell phone records.
* No difference exists in the cognitive distraction (the mental process of knowing, which includes awareness, judgment and perception) between handheld and hands-free devices, according to simulator studies conducted at the Univ. of Utah.
* One recent simulator study compared drivers using cell phones and drivers impaired by alcohol. Cell phone users had slower reaction times than drivers with .08 BAC and slower reaction to vehicles braking in front of them.
* Many businesses and organizations understand the risk and are already taking action. Among National Safety Council members who responded to a 2009 survey, 58 percent (1,163 out of 2,004 respondents) said their organization had a cell phone policy of some kind. Of those, 99 percent said the policy resulted in no decrease in productivity and 20 percent saw decreases in employee crash rates and property damage.
* A Carnegie Mellon study took pictures of the brain while drivers listened to sentences and drove on a simulator. The drivers listening to sentences had a 37 percent reduction in spatial awareness, which can directly contribute to cognitive distraction.
* For adults, talking to a passenger while driving is significantly safer than talking on a cell phone, a University of Utah study found. Passengers, unlike cell phone conversations, can make the driver aware of changing road conditions they might not see and can stop the conversation if traffic conditions warrant.
Source: http://www.focusdriven.org/why_cell_free.aspx
Distractions are the leading cause of motor vehicle crashes and the number one distraction is cell phones. The use of a cell phone while driving is a very high-risk behavior with a significant impact on society. This is due to the vast number of people engaging in the behavior and the cognitive distraction drivers experience when engaged in cell phone conversations. More than 50 peer-reviewed scientific studies have identified the risks associated with cell phone use while driving.
* CTIA – The Wireless Association reports there are more than 270 million cell phone subscribers, this is up dramatically from 100 million subscribers in 2000. An estimated 110 billion text messages were sent monthly in 2008.
* A Nationwide Insurance public opinion poll showed 81 percent of the public admitted to talking on a cell phone while driving. And NHTSA estimates that 11 percent of drivers at any point during the day are talking on cell phones while driving.
* Drivers who use cell phones are four times more likely to be involved in a crash. Two different studies found this same conclusion, a 1997 New England Journal of Medicine examination of hospital records and 2005 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study linking crashes to cell phone records.
* No difference exists in the cognitive distraction (the mental process of knowing, which includes awareness, judgment and perception) between handheld and hands-free devices, according to simulator studies conducted at the Univ. of Utah.
* One recent simulator study compared drivers using cell phones and drivers impaired by alcohol. Cell phone users had slower reaction times than drivers with .08 BAC and slower reaction to vehicles braking in front of them.
* Many businesses and organizations understand the risk and are already taking action. Among National Safety Council members who responded to a 2009 survey, 58 percent (1,163 out of 2,004 respondents) said their organization had a cell phone policy of some kind. Of those, 99 percent said the policy resulted in no decrease in productivity and 20 percent saw decreases in employee crash rates and property damage.
* A Carnegie Mellon study took pictures of the brain while drivers listened to sentences and drove on a simulator. The drivers listening to sentences had a 37 percent reduction in spatial awareness, which can directly contribute to cognitive distraction.
* For adults, talking to a passenger while driving is significantly safer than talking on a cell phone, a University of Utah study found. Passengers, unlike cell phone conversations, can make the driver aware of changing road conditions they might not see and can stop the conversation if traffic conditions warrant.
Source: http://www.focusdriven.org/why_cell_free.aspx
The Risks of Texting While Driving
Find out the risks of texting while driving as the research said about the human brain. You should know the facts for you to be aware of the risks of texting while driving. As it is said "Text at your Own Risk". Be informed. Save life.
Texting is the new way to communicate. Recent research from Nielsen indicates that people under age 45 now send and receive three times more text messages than calls on their cell phones. And thanks to hot toys like the iPhone, 75 billion tiny messages a month light up tiny screens across America. We're also texting multitaskers: A recent survey found that 77 percent of respondents said they've texted or sent mobile e-mail while driving; 41 percent while skiing, horseback riding, or biking; 11 percent during a romantic interlude; and 16 percent while at a funeral.Source:http://www.oprah.com/health/The-Risks-of-Texting-While-Driving-Multitaskers-Beware
"The human brain isn't equipped to concentrate on two things simultaneously," says neuroscientist Ren� Marois, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In brain scan studies, Marois found that the prefrontal cortex lights up for a longer time in people performing two mental tasks at the same time. This illustrates how the brain slows down reaction time.
"Despite employing 100 billion neurons to process information at rates as high as 1,000 times a second," Marois says, "the human brain has a crippling inability to do two tasks at once." Small wonder that the American College of Emergency Physicians reports a rise in texting-related emergency room visits. A new British study has found that texting while driving slows reaction time more than being drunk or high. The results can be deadly, as with the California train wreck in September that involved a texting engineer.
Social experts also warn about an eerie disconnect when we're out with our BFFs while texting friends, family, and the office. "There is a certain degree of 'absent presence' associated with the use of mobile phones and other personal media in the presence of others," notes researcher Scott Campbell, PhD, assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan. "People disengage, or pay more attention to the person on the phone than to the people who are physically present."
Don't Wear Wireless Headsets As If They Were Jewelry
-Mehmet Oz, MD.Earpieces don't emit as much radiation as a phone, but they release some—even after your call ends. Remove the device between conversations.
Don't Chat with a Poor Signal
-Mehmet Oz, MD.The harder your phone has to work to get reception, the more radiation it emits. This is the reason you should avoid using so-called radiation shields (the shiny stickers that claim to block radiation); they actually force the phone to transmit at a higher power.
Stop Talking While Driving
-Mehmet Oz, MD.In addition to creating a potentially deadly distraction, using your phone in the car forces your cell signal to jump between wireless towers. Since RF is highest when a connection with a tower is first established, talking while traveling can increase exposure.
Limit Children's Use of Cell Phones
-Mehmet Oz, MD.Kids have a thinner skull, and their brains are still developing—which may make them more vulnerable to any potential harmful effects of RF radiation.
Keep Your Phone Out of Your Pocket
-Mehmet Oz, MD.A study published last year in the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery linked cell phone radiation to decreased bone density in the pelvis, and a 2008 study conducted by the Cleveland Clinic found that it lowers fertility in men.
Use a Headset or Speakerphone
No reliable data exist on the upper limit of safe talk time, but corded headsets can reduce any potential risk. These emit much less RF energy, and allow you to move the phone away from your body. One study shows that using a headset lowers radiation exposure eightfold.
How to Avoid Cell Phone Dangers
This article you should not miss. Research said that radiofrequency (RF) energy increases the risk of brain cell damage leading to tumors. They found a link of the use of handheld phones to brain tumors, although a much more conclusive evidence s needed. But still the fact remains that Cell phones expose us to radiofrequency (RF) energy.
For detailed information, click here!
Source:http://www.oprah.com/health/Dr-Oz-Explains-Cell-Phone-Dangers-and-How-to-Avoid-Them
I got my first wireless handheld in 1990. It was as big and clunky as a brick, but the mobility it offered made it indispensable. There are now more than 270 million cell phone subscribers in America, and on average we spend about 11 hours a month with the gadgets glued to our heads. But as we've become more reliant on cell phones, experts have grown concerned about the health implications of heavy exposure—specifically, the radiation that the devices emit.
Cell phones expose us to a form of electromagnetic radiation called radiofrequency (RF) energy. Scientists have suspected that this radiation might increase the risk of brain cell damage leading to tumors, and in 1995 they found this to be the case in rats. Most studies since then have failed to show a similar correlation in humans, and last December the Danish Cancer Society released results from a 29-year study that found no solid association between increasing cell phone use and brain tumors. Yet just months earlier, an analysis of the most rigorous studies found convincing evidence linking the use of handheld phones to brain tumors, especially in users of a decade or longer.
The medical community is paying attention, and so is the U.S. government. Last fall a Senate hearing on cell phones and health coincided with an international conference on the same subject. While more conclusive evidence is needed before we start clamoring for the return of pay phones, there are some simple ways you and your family can limit exposure to the radiation:
-Mehmet Oz, MD.
Use a Headset or Speakerphone
Keep Your Phone Out of Your Pocket
Limit Children's Use
Stop Talking While Driving
Don't Chat with a Poor Signal
Don't Wear Wireless Headsets As If They Were Jewelry
For detailed information, click here!
Source:http://www.oprah.com/health/Dr-Oz-Explains-Cell-Phone-Dangers-and-How-to-Avoid-Them
The Effects on Distracted Driving
Many years back when the practice of the traditional mailings is our means of communicating to our love ones and yet we sacrificed the time delay of our message to be read. But now even an hour or a minute we can’t sacrifice or postpone our use of this wireless phones while driving. The message you can't wait to send could kill. It is so embarrassing that the people of this time are now going faster and faster, chasing the time.
I just remembered a quote from Gandhi that says,
This is a very timely statement that the people of this time now are preoccupied of many things that we miss those important ones. Take time to relax, pray and be refreshed from this chaotic world. In this way we can have focus and reach our goal without harming those people around us. Make your Pledge. Make your car a no phone zone. Be focused, do not text and drive. Put down your version cell phones and drive.
I just remembered a quote from Gandhi that says,
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
This is a very timely statement that the people of this time now are preoccupied of many things that we miss those important ones. Take time to relax, pray and be refreshed from this chaotic world. In this way we can have focus and reach our goal without harming those people around us. Make your Pledge. Make your car a no phone zone. Be focused, do not text and drive. Put down your version cell phones and drive.
In September 2008, a Los Angeles commuter train conductor missed a red light while sending and receiving more than 40 text messages. His packed train collided head-on with a freight train, injuring 135 people. The conductor and 24 others were killed, making it the second worst commuter train crash in U.S. history.
Weeks later, a school bus carrying 21 students was rear-ended by an 18-wheel semitruck. The bus was pushed more than 200 feet before bursting into flames. Twenty students escaped, but 13-year-old Margay Schee was killed. The truck driver admitted he had been texting and hadn't seen that the bus was stopped.
Oprah's Message About Distracted Driving
Watch Oprah's message about Distracted Driving.
If you are as outraged about distracted drivers as Oprah is, take a look at this video, then pass it on. Get the message out about a No Phone Zone!Always remember the innocent lives that could be lost when texting while driving. Using your wireless phones while driving is highly risky and life-threatening habit. Always remember the saying "I Love You Daddy, Please Drive Carefully."
The Cause of Motor Vehicle Accidents
The Cause of Motor Vehicle Accidents
What do you think are the cause of motor vehicle accidents?
Distractions are the cause of motor vehicle accidents and one distraction is wireless phones. Even if you’re just walking around and having some conversation on your version cell phones, you’re distracted on your way. You can’t concentrate and sometimes you just have to stop walking to have focus on what you are doing. The use of a cell phone while driving is a high-risk habit on the community. It is a serious life-threatening action and this is due to people engaging in this habitual and the mind distraction drivers experience when using their wireless phone for conversations.
A public opinion poll showed 81 percent of the public admitted to talking on a wireless phone while driving.
And because of this awareness campaign many businesses and organizations understand the risk and are already taking action to manage their phone plans and phone systems.
What do you think are the cause of motor vehicle accidents?
Distractions are the cause of motor vehicle accidents and one distraction is wireless phones. Even if you’re just walking around and having some conversation on your version cell phones, you’re distracted on your way. You can’t concentrate and sometimes you just have to stop walking to have focus on what you are doing. The use of a cell phone while driving is a high-risk habit on the community. It is a serious life-threatening action and this is due to people engaging in this habitual and the mind distraction drivers experience when using their wireless phone for conversations.
A public opinion poll showed 81 percent of the public admitted to talking on a wireless phone while driving.
And because of this awareness campaign many businesses and organizations understand the risk and are already taking action to manage their phone plans and phone systems.
A Carnegie Mellon study took pictures of the brain while drivers listened to sentences and drove on a simulator. The drivers listening to sentences had a 37 percent reduction in spatial awareness, which can directly contribute to cognitive distraction. For adults, talking to a passenger while driving is significantly safer than talking on a cell phone. Passengers, unlike cell phone conversations, can make the driver aware of changing road conditions they might not see and can stop the conversation if traffic conditions warrant.
Distracted Driving: What You Don't See
Distracted Driving: What You Don't See
Science shows your brain just can't keep up. University of Utah researcher David Strayer has been studying distracted drivers for 10 years. "The brain just doesn't work the way we'd like it to work," he says. "We can't multitask the way that a lot of people think they can."This statement just shows that multi-tasking is not a good practice while driving. It is very risky as driving while drunk. You could save a life, even yours. How can we control this distracted driving? It’s up for to decide to make your car a no phone zone. Be responsible. Stop the blame, decide for yourself. Manage your phone system. This is just so simple, put your phone down while driving. Distracted driving is a life-threatening habit. Take action manage your phone system and put down your cell phones while driving.
David's research found that talking on a cell phone quadruples your risk of an accident. "For comparison purposes, someone who's drunk at a 0.08 blood alcohol level has a four-time crash increase. So talking on a cell phone is about the same as driving drunk," he says. "When you're text messaging, the crash risk goes up to eight times."
New Deadly Obsession
New Deadly Obsession
When you get some drink, would you drive? Do you know that it is as dangerous as driving while drunk when you take calls or texting while driving?
Watch this partial video clip at The Oprah Winfrey Show and decide for yourself.
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Americas-New-Deadly-Obsession-Partial-Episode-Video
It's not yet late to make a difference. It's just about responsible driving. Do it now make a pledge.
When you get some drink, would you drive? Do you know that it is as dangerous as driving while drunk when you take calls or texting while driving?
Watch this partial video clip at The Oprah Winfrey Show and decide for yourself.
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Americas-New-Deadly-Obsession-Partial-Episode-Video
It's not yet late to make a difference. It's just about responsible driving. Do it now make a pledge.
No Phone Zone Pledge
No Phone Zone Pledge
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I pledge to make my car a No Phone Zone. Beginning right now, I will do my part to help put an end to distracted driving by not texting or using my phone while I am driving. I will ask other drivers I know to do the same. I pledge to make a difference.Many have pledged. How about you? Do you care to do your part? Save life, make a pledge do it now.
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