Always know what to do on the road

Vehicle, as appear at our daily life, is essential in daily life. We can easily to transport to other places, transport goods, and travel with vehicle. In modern, vehicle has huge impacts to human society, which increased the sale of vehicle. However, the death and car accidents rate are also increased.

Until now, people thought that driving is easiest thing ever. Drive with one hand, eating while driving, and didn’t pay attention to the road. However, they won’t know what will happens after car crashed because they though they’re able to handle, able to do whatever they want while driving. Sometimes we’re bragging ourselves that we’re able to do whatever thing we want on the road: speeding on the local where had speed limit, didn’t turn left or right light on before switch the lane, always ignore the signs where it might be reconstructing, and didn’t YIELD to the pedestrians. Those are extremely dangerously behaviors that will causes death on the road. People usually will be excited and happy when they passed the exam and road test in order to get Driver License, nevertheless, there still are death due to car accident and car crash. People feeling confident when they finally can drive by themselves, and this is where the bad news begin. Everyday, there are car accidents or car crash happen in different places, and this can be due to multiple reasons: Poor weathers, which can distracting and blocking driver’s sight; Careless driving, leaving the hand off the wheel while driving; Distracting driving, playing phone or texting someone while driving; and Speeding, always speeding on the road where it had speed limit. We’re overestimating ourselves that we can handle all of the situation, but we’re not able to handle when thing real happening to us.

It is dangerous if you overestimate your driving skills. I experienced twice of almost hitting other vehicles. First time was on the way to the “Andretti Indoor Karting & Games Orlando”. I was talking to my friends while driving and I kept looking back. While I’m looking back, I noticed that the traffic light was red. I pressed slowly because I thought it will stop perfectly and keep distance between me and front car. However, that just what I thought. I almost hit the front car if I did not pressed brake very hard. I was scared because I overestimate myself. Second times was my sister teaching me driving. I just passed the exam and got my permit. My sister taught me some important rules that I must remember before driving and showing me how to make a turn, what to do when making a turn, and steps to park your car. In the next day, my sister want me to drive to the Supermarket while she is sitting next to me. I was nervous and excited of driving, because its just like a task that NPC pass to me to complete it and I will receive a reward. I’m taking it and begin to drive. I thought everything will going well and I will arrive safe, until this happens. There was a bus in front of me tried to stop at the stop station. I thought that the bus was stop in the middle of the road for no reason, and then I suddenly switched to left lane without turning on the left turn signal and didn’t check if there was vehicle on the left lane. Fortunately, there was no vehicle on the left lane, but my sister got scared. She yelled at me and asked, “What happened? Why you do that? Did you check before you switched?”

In every state, the school offer driver education that help students to get permit and driver license. Moreover, personally, I believe that all of the drivers should knowing and able to having these skills: knowing meaning of each signs, always be calm, and check the surrounding before enter the vehicle. First, everytime we see the sign on the side of road, middle, and next to the traffic light. We need to know what does it trying to tell us because there might have something going on in front, like reconstructing, camera in the traffic light, or there is no traffic light but stop signs in the intersection. Second, we need to stay being calm while driving, even there was issues happen to your vehicle, like unable to speeding up, unable to stop when hitting the brake, or running out of the fuel. If you stay calm, you can thinking solutions that can solve the problem you’re facing. Third, always check the surrounding before driving. If a needle or something that can easily to make small holes to your tire, and let the air out, the tire will become falt and it can’t be balanced, which will causes car crashed. There will be other skills that can help drivers to become more safer on the road, however, I believe that these skills are essential to all of the drivers no matter the age.