Texting while driving is more dangerous than driving under the influence of substance abuse or alcohol. Researchers argue that drivers who text while driving have higher chances of crashing into other vehicles, running over pedestrians, and injuring their passengers. Although different literatures have argued that banning texting while driving saves lives, studies that fully address on this issue are rare and few.
Objectives
The proposal paper seeks to reveal how banning texting while driving saves lives, and outlines the measures that can be adopted to reduce on the related accidents. To address on the impacts of texting while driving, and to identify whether the government recommendations to outlaw the act are effective, this paper undertakes a survey on our current road safety measures.
Through this proposal paper, researchers will be able to cover on the areas an unaddressed by the previous researches. Equally, the paper will investigate whether the absence of substantial statistics is to be blamed for the slow implementation of the policies aimed at reducing accidents resulting from texting while driving.
Methods
To achieve the goals of the objectives proposed above, a comprehensive case study needs to be conducted on the risks of texting while driving and how the prohibition of the act will save lives. Through this case study, drivers, pedestrians, traffic police, and other transportation stakeholders are to be interviewed. Likewise, to obtain comprehensive results, the case study must analyze data from different sources.
In this regard, researches have to make use of academic journals, relevant books, related literatures, EBSCO, websites, and police records. By doing so, the case study will not only collect several views on how to enforce effective measures to reduce on the situation, but also come up with relevant recommendations. In addition, the case study will enable researchers identify if the proposed method of checking drivers’ phone records has been effective, and how this act infringes on their privacy.
Discussion
The information collected through this case study will be of interest to the researchers, traffic police officers, passengers, and the drivers. Since the government is interested in reducing road accidents through legislation of appropriate traffic laws, the government also will show an interest in the outcomes obtained in this case study.
Using the collected information, the government can come up with appropriate laws and measures that are to be implemented by all road users. Similarly, through this study, the government can examine whether all the previous policies implemented have attained their desired goals.
By reading this case study, road users will realize that texting while driving is a risky act, and that swift measures need to be put in place to reduce on its prevalence. Through these readings, relevant stakeholders will realize the need to enforce appropriate laws that will prohibit texting while driving. Equally, all the stakeholders will realize the need to put in place adequate information systems to measure the extent of road accidents resulting from texting while driving.
In the end, the case study will be presented to the relevant authorities. Thereafter the relevant authorities will evaluate the collected data based on the standards established. Further research on the effects of driving while driving are encouraged to evaluate and identify the impacts of interventions outlined in our case study. Through this, investigators need to identify the current measures that address the issues and expound on them.