Editing Text messaging (section)

=== Texting while driving ===
{{Main|Texting while driving}}
[[File:Cell phone use while driving.jpg|thumb|right|A driver with attention divided between a mobile phone and the road ahead]]
Texting while driving leads to increased distraction behind the wheel and can lead to an increased risk of an accident. In 2006, [[Liberty Mutual Insurance Group]] conducted a survey with more than 900 teens from over 26 high schools nationwide. The results showed that 87% of students found texting to be "very" or "extremely" distracting.<ref>{{cite web|title=Teens Admit Text Messaging Most Distracting While Driving |url=http://www.libertymutualgroup.com/omapps/ContentServer?c=cms_asset&pagename=LMGroup%2FViews%2FlmgView98&cid=1138356953222&kw=true |publisher=[[Liberty Mutual Group]] |date=19 July 2007 |access-date=5 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119232956/http://www.libertymutualgroup.com/omapps/ContentServer?cid=1138356953222&pagename=LMGroup%2FViews%2FlmgView98&kw=true&c=cms_asset |archive-date=19 November 2008 }}</ref> A study by [[American Automobile Association|AAA]] found that 46% of teens admitted to being distracted behind the wheel due to texting. One example of distraction behind the wheel is the [[2008 Chatsworth train collision]], which killed 25 passengers. The engineer had sent 45 text messages while operating the train.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} A 2009 experiment with ''[[Car and Driver]]'' editor Eddie Alterman (that took place at a deserted airfield, for safety reasons) compared texting with [[drunk driving]]. The experiment found that texting while driving was more dangerous than being drunk. While being legally drunk added 4 feet to Alterman's stopping distance while going {{Convert|70|mph|km/h|abbr=on}}, reading an e-mail on a phone added {{Convert|36|ft|m|abbr=}}, and sending a text message added {{Convert|70|ft|m|abbr=}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2009/06/25/texting-and-driving-worse-than-drinking-and-driving.html |title=Texting And Driving Worse Than Drinking and Driving |website=CNBC |date=25 June 2009}}</ref>

In 2009, the [[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|Virginia Tech]] Transportation Institute released the results of an 18-month study that involved placing cameras inside the cabs of more than 100 long-haul trucks, which recorded the drivers over a combined driving distance of three million miles. The study concluded that when the drivers were texting, their risk of crashing was 23 times greater than when not texting.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/technology/28texting.html |title=In Study, Texting Lifts Crash Risk by Large Margin |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 July 2009}}</ref>