text: Their are many negative effects of texting while driving. Reading and responding to someone message makes the driver not pay attention to the road. Most people spend most of their time riding on the outside the white line. So therefore doing that activity is very harmful to the whole population. All states should make it against the law to use cell phones while driving. Some people may think they can text while they are driving and not think that it is very dangerous. However, people have to learn from their own mistakes for them to learn.