The opportunity to drive is considered by some to be a "rite of passage" for young learners. Teenage drivers, whose lives are being placed under the wheel, do not always respond to their surroundings in a completely mature manner. As a result, the youngest generation is the one to suffer the greatest rate of car accidents, with the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety proclaiming those ages of 16-17 "are more likely to be involved in car accidents than drivers from any other age group." As observed throughout the past decade, it is evident that the genuine lack of focus, primarily contributed towards attention to technology like cellphones, has impacted teenagers on a day-to-day basis, however when this habit of tending to phones come in while driving, it creates unnecessary, yet disastrous consequences for the teen driver at any given point. 
 Campaigns seeking to reduce texting while driving are practically everywhere - in billboards, digital ads, and even magazines - to essentially convince the drivers of our country to protect themselves against their poor decision making when it comes to distractions. With phones, we use it almost exclusively by means of feeding our minds with entertainment, as well as to converse with loved ones who are not physically present. The road, however, requires complete attention for the driver to properly navigate and avoid potential collisions with passing vehicles. So, when drivers, teenagers in particular, choose to not focus on their driving but rather on a group chat, they would certainly put themselves at risk of the obstacles placed ahead without their direct line of vision. 
  Furthermore, considering this growing concern within the nation, social media, in part of cellphone use, should be limited or even avoided in not just the average driver, but primarily in the young, inexperienced teenagers set out for the road ahead. One potential solution to drive out distractions would be to simply hinder the notification announcements on social media. On the road, when drivers hear a ring sound regarding a new TikTok upload or a "DM" from another user, they would instinctively reach for the device typically out of habit to respond, however this obviously incapacitates them from observing the road and nearby obstacles. Some argue that a few seconds would not hurt, however that is immensely wrong, as even a mere second of taking your eyes off the road would leave drivers unable to perceive their surroundings with eyes being glued to a screen. By disabling the notification feature, teenage drivers are continually motivated to drive without sharing concern about what was sent over from social media platforms. In essence, by removing cellular alerts in the car, teenage drivers will focus more on driving without ever experiencing the stream of sounds from notifications until after they reach their destination. 
 In addition, because teenage drivers on average hold fewer experience on the road relative to mature counterparts, they are much more prone to initiate and or be seriously involved in car accidents. Apart from social media usage, another form of distraction also arises from contacts by friends and loved ones. Drivers, especially teenagers, would risk the urge to engage their friend or family member in text messaging or through phone calls, which exactly like social media usage, inhibits the teen from actively paying attention to the road. In that, teen drivers risk evading their hands off the steering wheel to send messages as well as leaving their eyes detached from the road in favor of a digital screen, as a consequence of injury or death of said driver and or innocent bystanders. The definite solution to this burden would be to either finish all contacts prior to driving or hold off conversations until after teens finish driving. Eyes, ears, and hands are most paramount to a teenager's safety behind the wheel, and therefore none of which should be occupied at the cost of entertainment. Teenagers need to understand that their lives are more valuable than a text message and should be aware that sending a text or call to someone could easily be done at any other time rather than when driving. It would simply not hurt to cut off a conversation for just a few minutes or even an hour of driving, as without life, the conversation would be cut off indefinitely. 
 Teenage drivers are displayed as the age group posing the greatest risk in causing driving accidents towards themselves and others around them, inflicting unwarranted casualties for all sides. The factors contributing to teenage accidents comes from the lack of concentration, which worsens from the advent of cell phones that work to encourage distracted driving. Even just a few moments of cellphone use would pose the greatest risk especially for teenage drivers, who lack experience in adequately navigating the road. By hindering contacts and notifications, teenage drivers would certainly lose the incentive to reach for their phones while driving, and thus they would certainly feel motivation to continue driving through full attention. It is just a few of many steps that drivers can take to keep themselves away from the possibility of needless death, which if we all learn to adapt, we can maintain a productive environment for drivers.