Name: Jasmyn Franklin
From: Waco, Texas
Votes: 0
Everyone wants
to be able to drive. Not everyone wants to be cautious drivers, or
take the time to learn how to be a good driver. To obtain your
driver’s license, you must complete an online or in-person class to
learn about the laws and safety measures of driving in all sorts of
scenarios and situations. Unfortunately these classes are taken too
lightly by both teenagers and adults. Drivers ed students may
not pay attention or joke about what is being taught. These bad
habits have led many drivers to continue their bad habits while
driving in the real world.
Various drivers
eat when they are on their way to work or school. They have their
breakfast burrito and they focus on eating that more than simply
driving. Other drivers tend to be on their phone, whether they’re
on social media (Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc.), texting,
calling, or just playing a game. Again, they’re focus is on their
phone, not the road. Drivers who have other passengers in their car
can often become engrossed in conversation or distracted by the
noises their passengers make and don’t remind them to be quieter
while they drive. Lastly, there are the drivers who have all the
distractions and bad habits combined together while they are driving.
Their focus is on everything except for driving and the other people
sharing the road with them.
These bad habits
and distractions are what cause so many wrecks and deaths each year.
It doesn’t always have to be on the highway or in a construction
zone, although that is just as common, but it could be on the service
road, a regular street, at any given intersection, or in your
neighborhood.
I believe that
driving educators are doing their best to help this problem, but
there needs to be more laws to enforce road safety. Drivers need to
learn to be serious about the dangers they can cause and look out for
the drivers that don’t care.
