In addition to texting friends, teenagers have now lost the essence of communication because they now text their parents (Dolliver). In addition to using cell phones to text friends and relatives, adolescents also use cell phones to communicate with work employees (Tsukayama). Additionally, to show teens the effects of texting while driving, AT&T challenges teens to text and drive in a simulator that can show drivers their driving skills. Even after seeing the shocking effects, many students denied taking part in AT&T's effort because texting is more important than safety (Poirot). Because teens believe that texting is much more important than safety, what they don't realize is that drivers don't need texting to distract their minds. For example, in one case a woman served twenty-one months in prison only because she was distracted by the ringtone on her phone (Mulgrew