When It Comes to Safe Driving, Is Tech the Problem or the Solution?

Running head: PERSUASIVE SPEECH
Persuasive Speech
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Topic: When It Comes to Safe Driving, Is Tech the Problem or the Solution?
Narrowed Topic: The use of tech must be prohibited as it causes a hindrance to the safe Driving
General Purpose: To Persuade people not to use tech materials like cell phones
Specific Purpose: To make people know that the use of cell phones while Driving is dangerous
and can lead to accidents. Thus they have to follow the right kind of rules so that it does not
lead to any types of disaster. However, in the modern day scenario indeed surviving within
technology like cell phones (Choudhary and Velaga, 2017). There can often be some
emergencies where the drivers might have to make a call to their family members. However,
they have to stop their cars and then make the call so that there are no cases of accidents on the
road.
The pattern of Organization: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
Introduction
I. Attention: The attention is to bring to the road accidents that are caused due to the
distraction that is caused by the lack of attention that is created among the drivers
II. Purpose: The purpose is to analyze if technology is actually helping to save the road
accidents or adding more to it
III. Credibility: I have realized that accidents are caused on road due to many reasons and
one among them is the lack of concentration that is created among the drivers.
However it is true that often the fault is on the part of the passerby. Taking all these
into account, efforts have to make so that the issue of the lack of concentration is
controlled. Thus the efforts have to be taken properly so that the chances of accidents
can be checked.

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IV. Significance to Audience: Audiences here refers to the people of the society. They will be
able to know that using technology is good but at the same time there must be some
check applied over the usage of technology.
Preview: Government is trying to take steps to solve the problems so that there are fewer chances
of accidents. Thus efforts must be made by the Government and the other policy makers to make
sure that there must be proper campaigns to make people aware about the dangers of accidents.
Body
I. Need
The problem discussed is the increase in the rate of accidents on road due to the lack of
proper concentration among people. As per the news covered by The New York Times, it has
been seen that there was a sever road accident on Feb. 29, 2016. The Victim was an young
pregnant lady of 22, Megan Goeltz who was hit by another driver who had lost control over his
breaks. As far as the reports are concerned the driver who hit her car lost track as he was
engrossed in his cell phone.
Attention step
Megan’s father Tom Goeltz was much sad at this incident as he used to work as the
experienced professional safety advocate who teaches classes to prevent distracted Driving. As
per the statistics about 26 % of the car accidents in U.S are taking place due to the cell phones
(www.nytimes.com.2019). However Velmurugan (2017) has argued that though the Government
of some countries are taking measures to solve this problem there is the lack of Universal and
proper appeal among all the people.