http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/ Switched Comments for Study: 60% of Teens Drive While Texting, Despite Knowing Dangers http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 23rd 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 23rd 2009 7:48PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 25th 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/when you get into a wreck, please come back and give us all the details. If you survive it.
PSK]]>May 24th 2009 3:03AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/And that is why the carnage on our highways will continue, until some of these defiant yunggins realize that they are not invincible.]]>May 24th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 24th 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 24th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 24th 2009 12:48PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 24th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/
One of my friends, who had just turned 21, recently crashed and died. She was texting while driving. I'm all for making it illegal.]]>May 24th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/May 24th 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/
You're generally correct. Doing anything while driving, other than driving, is a negative. You're also correct that talking on the phone is worse, as it is mostly a cognitive distraction and not a physical one. I do take issue with your correlation that because people over 30 are incarcerated, they exercise worse judgment that those under 30. Assuming your facts are correct, you're simply upset that my remarks about brain function applies to those 25 and under. There's no science in your correlation. No wisecrack to be found either. Here, read this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52687-2005Jan31.html

This is one of many studies done over the last decade. I'm also not entirely sure how it is you come to these conclusions race and age. But it speaks volumes for your inability to form a coherent thought. Keep working on it though. It should improve with age. (That is a wisecrack.)]]>May 25th 2009 7:57PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/The idea that the brain does not reach full potential until a certain age is based on many things. Arbitrary numbers are based on single factors, but the truth to any argument here is that to have the brain develop to its full potential, ONE has to be alive that long. I teach HS and I would like to see my kids reach their full potential, what ever age that is! But driving (and drinking??) and texting certainly does not seem like an activity that is going to insure this outcome. ]]>May 27th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/http://www.switched.com/2009/05/23/study-60-of-teens-drive-while-texting-despite-knowing-dangers/Jun 28th 2009 1:37PM