{"id":1536,"date":"2015-09-14T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktheorytesttoday.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T10:48:42","slug":"see-what-happens-when-you-text-and-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktheorytesttoday.com\/blog\/see-what-happens-when-you-text-and-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"See what happens when you text and drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTo text and drive is inviting serious injury or death.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe us? Then our latest blog, come vlog will hopefully open your eyes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Book Theory Test Today<\/a><\/strong> says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We get it, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like being told you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use your mobile phone behind the wheel. You think that some jobsworth has sat behind a desk and decided to put this rule in place to annoy motorists. Well, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be wrong. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to agree that if every motorist on the road was texting at one time there would be anarchy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, chances are you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spotted someone using their mobile phone at the wheel and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a police unit in sight. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s human nature to think \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcif they can get away with it, why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Therein lies the problem. As soon as one motorist is seen doing it, every motorist thinks they can get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Text and drive USA \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

To highlight just how dangerous it can be to text and drive, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to use our friends across the pond as an example. Did you know? Every day in the USA nine people are killed and 1,153 are injured on the roads because of a distracted driver. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not saying all these accidents can be attributed to mobile phones, but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d guess that a lot of them are.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mobiles phones have become such a part of our daily lives that they never leave our side, apart from when we sleep or they require a charge. However, to highlight just how dangerous a phone can be in a car one Belgian organisation came up with a really great way to educate learner drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Responsible Young Drivers<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Responsible Young Drivers organisation enlisted the help of a driving school and a driving instructor and conducted a social experiment that fast went viral. Every person in the video was taking their driving test<\/a><\/strong> and were given just one condition for passing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcprove you can text and drive, then you will earn your licence.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The car used for the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctext and drive\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 test was equipped with hidden cameras, capturing each learner driver attempting to text and drive. The results of the video are extremely powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the <\/span>video, you will see learners asked to send a text message at the request of the driving instructor. While texting, they were asked to avoid a course of traffic cones and other obstacles put in their way. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll witness drivers swerving, panicking and braking heavily in the video, emphasising just how difficult and dangerous it is to text and drive.<\/span><\/p>\n

One student comes close to tears as the instructor says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Imagine what you just hit was a child.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the video<\/a><\/strong> and share it. After all, it could save lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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