Driving While Texting

Instead of driving and talking on cellphones, the new thing is driving while texting and it is very dangerous. Research has shown how frequent people drive and text and the statistics are very believable as I constantly find myself texting and driving. Studies have shown that despite the research proven to show that texting while driving is not only dangerous, but deadly, it is more rampant then ever and people continue to do it like its no big deal. Its actually alot easier to pick up the phone and call someone while driving, but it is too obvious for police officers to see an individual talking on the phone. You can hide texting by simply using the phone on your lap, but that possess a problem because then your not looking at the road.
A study was conducted by Vlingo, a company that makes software that translates spoken messages into text or e-mail on mobile phones. The company survey over 4800 applicants online and 26 percent of the 4800 were guilty of D.W.T (Driving While Texting) and out of that 26 percent, 60 percent are between the ages of 16 to 19, 49 percent of the people from 20 to 29 and 13 percent over 50 years old. This does not come as a surprise to me as I would expect younger teenagers to be texting their friends, girlfriend and boyfriends, all the time and now a days every teenager has a cellphone. Tennessee was the state with the highest percentage of drivers that text and coming in right after it is New Jersey. I am very surprised that New York is not atop that list because the population is so dense and there are a lot of younger people in the cities, but at the same time many people who live in the city do not own cars. So maybe for New York they should do a study on texting and biking.