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Although some states and cities have passed laws to ban texting and  using handheld phones while driving, there is no current law to ban all  cell phone use while driving. However, according to the National Safety  Council (2009), 28 percent of all crashes—1.6 million per year—are  caused by cell phone use and texting by drivers. The mission of a new  national nonprofit organization called FocusDriven, patterned after  Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is to make phone use while driving as  illegal and socially unacceptable as drunk driving. US Transportation  Secretary Ray LaHood supports FocusDriven and its efforts. According to the , LaHood said that  this movement would become “an army of people traveling the countryside”  to push for bans on cell-phone use and tough enforcement (Schmitz,  2010). As a political advocate interested in this issue, you will be  writing a policy proposal that utilizes the current research to propose a  solution to the issue and submitting it in . Before you can write this proposal research, you will need to conduct  initial research on the science behind this initiative. For this

 assignment, use the Argosy University online library resources to locate  research reports from peer-reviewed journals that discuss the effects  of cell phone use on vision, attention, perception, or memory. In  selecting at least five research reports from peer-reviewed journals  relevant to the topic, make sure they address one or more of the  following issues: Based on your reading of the five articles, create an annotated  bibliography for each of the five sources. Each annotation should  consist of the APA reference entry followed by a paragraph-long summary  of the articles. In your summary, provide answers for the questions  below. For the last question, think about how the research results could  be generalized to fit other environments or not be generalized. Your annotated bibliography should be at 3–4 pages in length. the annotated bibliography template. This document will help you complete your paper more successfully. Be sure to include a title page and reference page listing your  articles. Use the following file naming convention:  LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc. , deliver your assignment to the .