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Basic common sense states that given two different activities of varying danger and the same end product, a person will take the safer route to reach the destination. This can be seen with many examples, such as riding a motorcycle with or without a helmet; most people would choose the safe option, of foregoing looks and wearing a helmet that could possibly save their life. However, when it comes to driving, people seemingly forget all about this principle. A statistic recently released from a joint survey between AAA and Seventeen Magazine in 2007 showed that 61% of teens admit to dangerous driving habits, and of that, 46% will admit to texting frequently while driving.
This begs the question, why?
If people have learned to take the safer road, why do people still insist on endangering not only themselves, but others as well, on the road with texting while driving? The answer is simple: we live in a fast-paced technological society, where responses are expected near instantaneously. When we’re driving, we feel the need to respond to whoever tries to contact us to keep up with the social norm, no matter how much we may be putting ourselves into harm’s way.
How can we fix this?
The answer is simpler than you think. Programs, such as SMSReplier with DriveReply, are designed to alleviate both of these problems at the same time. How it works is as an “away message” for your phone while driving, allowing for you to seemingly respond to your friends’ attempts of calling/texting you, while at the same time keeping your focus on the road where it should be. Products like this are the answer to our problem of texting while driving that we’re faced with every day.
-Brandon S. 7/22/10
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