“One Late Night: Solving Unsafe Driving Habits”

One
Late Night: Solving Unsafe Driving Habits

It’s
a warm summer night in the middle of August, and you just graduated
high school! Congrats! So, for the occasion you decide to have a
party with your friends in order to commemorate that major
achievement in your own life; although someone brought some whiskey
as well as a few bottles of vodka. Thankfully you were raised
correctly and didn’t partake in any of the alcohol present; on the
other hand, your friends, well, they weren’t as wholesome as you
were. Now let’s fast-forward to the end of the party when everyone
is beginning to leave, but you realize that your two other friends
are drunk and they are the only ones who could drive you home since
you don’t have your driver’s license or even your permit for that
matter. As you pull out of the lot with the novice but slurred advice
from your friends, you swerve off the main road and crash into a
random building, causing you and one of your friends to die from the
impact. How could this be prevented you may ask? That’s easy; a
better sense of drivers ed was in order because then you would
have had the motive to NOT drive. 

            From
the scenario, a more valued understanding of Drivers ed
could have been vital as it is important to recognize the hazards and
dangers of driving like an amateur. The importance of this type of
education in terms of reducing the number of deaths as a result is
that it allows you to become more accustomed to the environment that
is set forth to you on the main road. The steps in my opinion that
could help reduce the number of deaths as a result of driving would
include as followed: Make driving courses and education free and make
it an absolute requirement before getting in the driver seat of a
vehicle; Make the classes extensive until the student understands
COMPLETELY what they are doing in terms of driving; and provide
outside driving instructors that collaborate with one another to work
on common issues as well as a counselor for personal issues that may
pop-up. 

            Besides
the general arithmetic of drivers ed, I would like to discuss
how one of my uncles was in a major car accident, causing the
injuries of five other people. When he was sixteen years old, he
received his driver’s license and decided to take a few friends out
driving despite his father’s directions that night; however, this
ended horribly because he was tempted into a race which lead him to
roll off a highway about three times, crashing into a fire hydrant
and a pole. He broke his pelvis as well as a laceration across his
head. To be a better driver I would consider: Being more careful
around corners, performing a routine inspection before driving,
watching out for any pedestrians, and to have a wide open view of the
road rather than having tunnel vision.