Texas Government should take action in banning texting while driving

Is it really important to stay connected to your device during every minute of the day? Many accidents occur nowadays are blamed on distracted driving and most of the distractions are caused by cell phone usage. Texting or using a cell phone while driving is very dangerous to oneself and other people. The common reason the majority of people disapprove texting while driving because it causes a great amount of accidents per year. There are many laws being established to prevent this problem, but it has not gone down either. In Texas, texting while driving is consider to be illegal in school zone only. However, Texas government should expand the banning of texting beside school zone.

According to a Dallas article, on February 2013, Governor Rick Perry vetoed a statewide ban on texting while driving (dallasnews.com). He reasoned that since all drivers have gone through the course where they learn about safety, it is unnecessary to do a statewide ban. Instead, each person should responsible for their own act and be mature about texting. There is a study released by the Highway Loss Data Institute saying that banning texting while driving did not result in fewer crashes. In my opinion, the important point to focus on is not only banning texting but actually making it happen. There’re many ways in which the government can actually ban texting not only by putting it as a law on paper. The government could use the advantage of technology and create a program where all cell phones would automatically turn off after the driver turn on the engine. Another way is to raise public awareness about the dangerous of texting through public presentations. “If the state is not willing to say whether it’s right or wrong [and] if the government can’t involved in public safety, then what government is there for” (dallasnews.com)