Do You Know How to Drive?

There
are millions if not billions of drivers across the nation who have
seemingly learned how to drive safely alongside others. They’ve
attended driving school, got their permit, passed their driver’s
test, and are now apart of everyday traffic on the road having
followed every step you need to be legally considered a “safe
driver”. In driving school, you learn that driving is a privilege,
and that all the precautions you take (driving school and tests) are
there to ensure that you safely work with that privilege to do no
harm to others.

Driver’s
education is essential to reducing the number of deaths as a result
of driving and yet is the most ignored by drivers. Yes, drivers are
knowledgeable of what they are supposed to do on the road, they did
make it this far, however, drivers who have passed driver’s
education have the tendency to ignore what they’d been taught due
to feeling as though they know how to drive, and safely at that. This
is a common error and probably one of the most leading causes of
accidents and deaths by all knowing licensed drivers. Knowing how to
drive safely versus driving safely is a difference between life and
death. One could know what to do in order to avoid an accident but
never follow through with doing so, which leads to causing or being
involved in an accident.

All
steps that should be taken to avoid any accident or death while
driving is given to you in driving school—nowhere else. With that
being said, the number one step any driver should follow in order to
reduce the number of deaths on the road is to adhere by the rules
given in driving school. In real life situations, simply practicing
what you were taught in driving school, like looking in every
direction, eliminating distractions, and wearing a seatbelt, can all
be steps you took to save your life and the life of someone else.
Although driving is a privilege, driving safely is a choice, and a
choice that should be made everyday with the intention of sparing a
life.