text: The abuse of cell phones, while driving, is detrimental to oneself and others due to the contributing factors of texting, holding phone conversations, vehicular accidents and loss of focus due to limits within the human brain. There is only about a three second reaction time between a potential car crash and a driver being distracted by his or her cell phone. Texting or holding a conversation on a mobile device, while driving, is arguably just as dangerous as driving under the influence of alcohol or other substances. In many states, throughout North America, it has been made illegal to write, send, or read a text-based communication while operating a vehicle. Today, current vehicles install bluetooth in order to increase the use of hands free cell phone use, and in hopes of decreasing unnecessary vehicular accidents.   In the artical "The Challenge of Exploring Venus" the author is trying to convince the reader that studying Venus is woth pursuing dispite the dangers in may cause and shows us. Sending people to a planet we know is dangerous is not a good idea if we dont have the technological advancements that we think we may need to protect the people going to Venus. The history of this planet is important to know about because it is very similar to Earth and not is one of the hottest planets in our solar sysem.