Why We Should Keep Our Mobile Phone Away While Driving

How often do you receive calls or read text messages while you are driving? Sometimes we must receive calls which are important or urgent. However, do you know that they are dangerous? There are three reasons why we should keep our mobile phone away while driving.

            The first reason, it disturbs our concentration. It means that we cannot focus on what we are doing. Disturbing concentration has deep relation with our health especially with our brain. There are some facts says that radiations from the mobile phone can damage brain cells. It is caused by the signal power that sprout which is about 2 watts. It is equal to 33 dbi. So, it will affect the brain directly. The study conducted at the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittburgh used brain imaging to document that when driving and listening activity in the parietal lobe, the portion of the brain associated with driving was reduced by 37%.So, it means that the radiation caused by mobile phone affect our brain directly and disturbs our concentration automatically.

            The second reason, it makes us take the wrong way. Sometimes, when we enjoy our mobile phone, we forget where our destination is. For example, we are driving to the beach and take the shortest routes. Suddenly, we go to the wrong way because we enjoy our mobile phone too much. It is common for people who have more attention to their mobile phone. In order that many people do not use mobile phone while driving, we have many instructions which do not allow us to use mobile phone while driving. In California, they have “NO Cell Phone While Driving Law” which is applied in fourteen other states in United States. In Indonesia, we also have many signs such as © or instructions such as “No Phone While Driving”.

            The third reason is to avoid the accident. Many kinds of accidents happen in the world. Every day we have so many car accidents. In USA, the majority of car accidents are caused by irresponsible driving behavior. Worse, researchers have found that thus latest undesired phenomenon is rising up sharply from March, 2003. Studies also review that cell phones have recently sprung up as a common cause of car accidents. A recently published national Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) survey reports that 44% of drivers have a phone with them when they drive, 7% have email access, and 3% have facsimile capabilities. Those numbers are likely to increase. In our environment, we often find that many people with their phone applying the phone without thinking about the risk.

            For all reason, we should keep our mobile phone away while driving. Why? Because many things can happen to us while driving with our mobile phone such as our concentration is disturbed, we can go to the wrong way, or we will get an accident. Imagine that everybody with their mobile phone do not care about the instructions. I believe that the accident will increase. In other words, we can avoid the accident by keeping our concentration while driving. One of the way is by keep our mobile phone away.