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Texting While Driving

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Texting While Driving
开车时发短信

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Date: Feb 26 2013

Grammar: Direct vs. Reported Speech

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Everyone likes to multitask. If you can do two things at once, it will save you time. Unless, of course, one of those things is driving. In that case, multitasking can kill you, or someone else.

Driving requires your full attention to be safe. Looking away from the road for a few seconds to push a few buttons on your phone seems harmless, but it’s actually very dangerous.

Texting while driving is very tempting though. We live in a world of instant communication. It’s hard to wait until you’re finished driving to respond to any messages you get on the road.

So pull over, put down your phone, and listen to Sara and Vanessa talk about texting while driving in this English lesson.

每个人都喜欢一心多用。如果可以同时做两件事情，就能节省时间。当然，其中的一件事情不能是开车。如果那样，一心多用会使您丧命，或导致其他悲剧。

开车要聚精会神，才能保证安全。从路上移开眼睛几秒，按几下手机键盘看似无害，但事实上，这样的行为非常危险。

尽管开车时发短信很有诱惑力。我们生活在即时通信的世界。很难等到停车后，再回复在路上收到的短信。

将车停到路边，放下电话，在本节英语课上，听听萨拉和瓦内萨谈论开车时发短信这件事。

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Sara

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 Vanessa

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Sara:  I have a confession to make. It’s really bad…

Vanessa:  What is it?

Sara:  ...and I know I shouldn’t do it, but I can’t stop texting while driving.

Vanessa:  Oh no. That’s really dangerous. Really risky.

Sara:  I know. It’s just…your friend texts you, and you’re driving, and you think, “I can text them back in 15 minutes when I get home, but what if it’s really important and I need to communicate right now?” You know?

Vanessa:  I know, I know, and sometimes you’re stopped at a light or something, or you don’t have a hands-free or a headset or anything like that. But don’t you find that it breaks your concentration? Don’t you need to focus when you’re driving?

Sara:  I do. I think I convince myself that I can do both even though I know I’m pressing my luck by doing it.

Vanessa:  Yeah. I have a confession to make.

Sara:  What is it?

Vanessa:  Sometimes I do it too.

Sara:  Were you in the car when I texted you earlier?

Vanessa:  Um….maybe.

 

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Sara admits to Vanessa that she sometimes texts while driving. She knows it’s dangerous, but she does it anyway. Sometimes she just worries that the text she got was too important to ignore.

Vanessa agrees that texting while driving is very dangerous, but she understands why Sara does it. They make hands-free devices and headsets to help with this problem, but you don’t always have one on when you need it.

Ultimately, Vanessa admits she texted Sara while driving earlier in the day!

Do you ever text while driving? What are some good ways to avoid this risky (and often illegal) behavior?

 

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milad yusefi

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

no i don’t. maybe everytime, anyone (even a child) comes on the road and driver dosen’t can control his/her car.


so, we should be our police.

09:40 AM Feb 26 2013 |

DAMAVAND

DAMAVAND

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Seungmanlee68,


we have “speech to text” converters now, but they are few, and as a matter of fact, many problems may be occurred while using them because of environment noise or other reasons, however they have an ongoing improvement.

09:16 AM Feb 26 2013 |

Tandis1990

Tandis1990

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

it is very bad habit that some people in the word do this,when i’m driving and want to texting i cann’t do this and i have to pull over then text.it’s so dangerous certainly happend a bad act

08:58 AM Feb 26 2013 |

masoudhsn

masoudhsn

Canada

I believe it is a very risky habit that unfortunately many people especially young folks are doing sometimes. I saw several cases that these people were texting while driving and it is prevalent by a stoplight. I have never texted while driving so far although some of them were so important. In these situation, I tried to call them with headset or hands-free which are safer and more secure than texting. Also, In some emergency condition, I pull over and text them back because I don’t break my concentration and don’t press my luck with that.

08:16 AM Feb 26 2013 |

hot-cabbage

China

It’s a real bad habit indeed,but all of us can’t avoid this,so don’t do it on the freeway,and keep a headset in the car.

06:23 AM Feb 26 2013 |

seungmanlee68

South Korea

I have an experiences to use mobile text while driving. To avoid this risky, I often use handsfree. However, it is not convenient to corespondance with others. Most of people use mobile messenger with text. When I listen to sounding with text, I disregard mobile text while driving. If someone creates a voice text message system, it will be a good communication tools for users. 

02:45 AM Feb 26 2013 |

pratik_patel

India

Texting while driving is really very risky. Even if we lose focus for 2 to 3 seconds, it can be dangerous and may result into accident. Instead of pressing our lucks, we should pull over the car or put the phone on autorespond or auto text mode. Of course we can use texttospeech software to check if the message is really important. 


02:34 AM Feb 26 2013 |

Hollly

Hollly

Russian Federation

A driver must be crazy …no…insane or may be despaired to type a message while driving.

02:19 PM Feb 25 2013 |

DAMAVAND

DAMAVAND

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

It seems reasonable to stop our car for texting, and prevent texting while driving (if it is possible), otherwise, I think the safest way is using “text reader “or “talking SMS reader” software for reading a message loudly, as well as using “speech to text” applications on smart phones for converting voice to text and send it automatically, however all of these programs have a percentage error in some cases,  it’s better than pressing our luck by risking.

10:42 AM Feb 25 2013 |

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