If you have a cell phone and a car, you are probably guilty of at least checking your text messages while driving. But one course shows drivers the dangers of texting while driving in hopes of discouraging people from engaging in this distracting behavior.
Brandon Bogart, with the In-Control Advanced Driving School, conducted the course which took place on an old runway at the old Weymouth Naval Air Station. Bogart invited TV reporter Bill Shields to drive a car along an obstacle course with a cell phone in his hand. He then asked Shields to drive 60 mph around the cones. Shields managed to maneuver around many cones, but he also hit several of them.
“If those cones were a car,” Shields said, “I would’ve demolished it.”
Bogart uses a similar demonstration in his driving courses to show new drivers that texting and driving is a huge distraction regardless of their thumbing skills. “They know how dangerous it is to driver while using a cell phone, but we show them how disastrous it can be,” Bogart explained about many of the drivers in his courses.
Don’t take a chance at crashing your Pontiac cars. Stay off your cell phone when you are behind the wheel even if there are no laws against it in your state. It’s not only common courtesy, it’s also your responsibility as a driver.
