TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

Imagine. You are in the passenger’s seat of a car but the person who you
entrusted your life with is paying more attention to their phone than the road. You
feel a sense of paranoia as the car moves. You notice the driver looking down for
a split second and the BANG! Everything goes blank. You hear screams and
sirens, feel the pain and blood and smell smoke. You then pass out. Today in my
speech I will be sharing the dangers of texting and driving. This is a problem in
the Philippines and that is why I will tell you how to prevent this by sharing with
you the statistics of auto collisions, facts about how the brain focuses, and the
financial cost of texting and driving.

The main problem of this is texting and driving which leads to my first point which
is auto collision. Most people say, “I drive safe, so it is not likely to happen to me”
but the proof that I found shows that this is a serious problem. According to
moneymax.ph Texting and driving is placed number two in top reasons for car
crash in the Philippines. About 65% of people die from this issue and is more
dangerous than drunk driving. My Second point is how the brain focuses. You
might think that its okay to use your phone while driving because you can
multitask, but research shows that it takes 2.36 seconds to respond using Siri
and 2.511 seconds if you text manually. This clearly shows that people cant
focus on one thing at a time. Moving on to my last point is the financial cost of
texting and driving.