Memo To: From: Date: Ms. Wilkinson John Wissing 4/17/2008 Subject: Driving on the Cell Phone The purpose of memo is to go over the main points and risks of driving while on the cell phone. To inform the state of Texas Congress the different dangers and to get a law to be passed that will put some kind of restraints on drive with a cell phone. First, the investigation started with a look of national studies done by different universities and different companies. The number of Americans who have a personal cell phone is increasing every year. According to the Cellular Telecommunications &amp; Internet Association over 254 million people subscribe to a cell phone in February 08. That means that about 85% of Americas have some kind of wireless device. Those are just outrageous numbers considering that any Americans under the age 16 do not typically have a cell phone. That just shows you that almost everyone who drives has a cell phone. In January a company by the name of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. found out that around 73% of the people that they surveyed drive while talking on the cell phone. Visualize how dangerous that is if 73% of the people on the road were on their cell phone. Also, how many times do you get cut off or for some reason you honk at someone and then see that they are on their cell phone? Although talking on the cell phone is hazardous, text messaging is by far the worst that comes from the cell phone. Not only is your focus somewhere else your eyes are not on the road. This is a double negative that defiantly does not make a right. More than two thirds of the teenagers that I interviewed said that they text message during driving and out of the teenagers that said they this about half of them said they have almost got into or have gotten into a accident while texting. Based on the information that I gathered, I would recommend that Texas Congress Member's should strongly suggest making it illegal to talk on the cell phone and to text message while driving. The law could require some kind of hands free device while driving for drivers over the age 18 or 21. Any kind of law that would restrict the use of <a href="/keyword/cell-phones/" >cell phones</a> while driving would be helpful and it would raise the awareness of the dangers of this everyday task. 1