CNN News:千万不要边开车边发短信

According to textinganddrivingsafety.com, our eyes are off the road for at least five seconds whenever we text and drive. So, at 55 miles per hour, it`s like driving the length of the football field without looking.

根据textinganddrivingsafety.com网站的调查表明，当我们在边开车边发短信的时候，至少有5秒钟的时间是不看路的。所以，按照汽车每小时前行55英里，相当于我们闭着眼睛开过了一个足球场的长度。

A significant majority of American High School Students have phones. Because of them probably want to live to be 100, Dr. Gupta is making some calls.

大部分美国高中生都有手机。他们当中有的人也想活100岁吧。下面Gupa博士会做一些呼吁。

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Texting and driving is one of these real concerns that we can actually do something about. We know for example every year, there are around 100,000 texting while driving accidents.

SANJAY GUPTA博士，CNN首席医疗记者：边开车边发短信是我们实际上会做的切实的隐患之一。我们知道，每年大约都有10万起因边发短信边开车的车祸发生。

When you`re texting and driving, your reaction time decreases, your concentration decreases. Some people have likened to driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.08.

在你边开车边发短信的时候，反应时间缩短，注意力减退。有的人则喜欢酒后驾车。

Just like they say -- you don`t let friends drive drunk, you don`t let friends drive while texting either.

就如人们常说的那样——不要让朋友酒后驾车，也不要让他们边开车边发短信。

There are various state laws in place to limit texting and driving. Obviously, there are traffic tickets that are being given.

有各种各样的国家法律来限制驾车时发短信的习惯。很明显，违规会给交通罚单。

There`s also been some really interesting technologies, everything from automatic replies from your phone if someone is calling or texting or emailing you, to even devices that will monitor how fast the phone is moving within your car. If it gets over a certain speed limit, the phone becomes deactivated.

还有一些非常有趣的技术发明，在有人给你打电话、发短信或邮件时，你的手机的自动回复以及这些设备会检测手机随车移动的速度。如果超过了一定的速度限制，手机则会被停用。

Your best bet is something I started doing as well, is just put the phone out of reach.

你最好的选择，也是我正在开始实践的，只是需要把手机放到够不到的地方。

However long it takes you to get home, most of those calls, those emails, those texts, they can wait. It`s a good way to try and live to 100.

无论你多长时间到家，大部分的电话、邮件、短信都会来的及。这是一个试图活到100岁的好办法。