The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
A recent study in Virginia (U.S.A.) showed that truck drivers who text while driving are 23 times more likely to be in an accident than drivers who don’t text while driving. See the details of the study in the iTWire article “Texting and driving may be a thing of the past.”
In the United States, over 40,000 people are killed each and every year from motorized vehicle accidents.
It has been reported that of this number, about 25% of the accidents occur because people are distracted or inattentive while driving, such as when they are texting and not paying attention to their driving.
That, means about 10,000 people are killed for such things as texting, emailing, reading a book, surfing the Internet, shaving, applying makeup, and other such distractions that should not be occurring while driving.
Motorists should be concentrating entirely on driving and not on other things. Although cars are often portrayed by automobile manufacturers as safe, they are only completely safe when they are parked.
They are not inherently safe when being driven at 100 kilometers per hour (60 miles per hour), and especially not safe when traveling at that speed with an inattentive driver texting someone and not looking at the road.
But, it's not just teenagers that are dangerous when texting and driving, it is all people, of all ages, who are dangerous when doing things that distract themselves from their responsibility of driving as safely as possible while on the road.
David Bass
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