The Benefits of Driving Education

Driver education is a major deciding factor that is important in reducing deaths due to driving. It’s an important must-go-through course because most deaths in driving are due to lack of paying attention or making mistakes, mistakes that cost their lives as well as those who drove around with them safely. Driver’s education solves this problem by giving people who struggle with this issue solutions and resources to prevent it from happening, therefore lowering the overall death by car accident counter.

Better yet, there are even more steps you can take outside of driver’s education that can reduce the number of deaths related to driving. One of these is to have your phone off or put away while driving. This instantly solves the problem of looking at your phone while driving, which is one of the leading causes of accidents. Another step we can all take is to make a habit of calling a ride instead of driving yourself when you’re drunk or intoxicated. This can take off a huge number of the drunk-driving incidents by preventing them from happening in the first place. One last step to take is to stop driving while tired. Many times in accidents a lack of paying attention is due to restlessness or being sleepy and tired. You can stop this with a number of ways. One is to get a full 8 hours of rest each day so you don’t wake up tired. Another way is to have a morning workout routine, as exercising is a quick and easy way to wake up. Doing hurtful actions such as hitting yourself or drinking a lot of caffeinated drinks may end up being harmful due to drawbacks that will hit later on.

I have had the experience of seeing family members drive irresponsibly, and have even been told to do so myself while I work up the hours of experience for driving. It’s always a weird experience having this happen, but I know the reason for it: bad habits not having any punishment. Oftentimes bad habits will continue to grow and grow on someone because nothing bad has come of them, and that culminates into something like a car accident or a crash. I personally have tried to not let myself be influenced by their bad habits so I can pass my drivers test, but it has proven to be difficult at times. I myself struggle from having a poor sense of awareness.

This doesn’t mean I can’t take some personal steps to being a good driver, however. One thing I can do to be a safer driver, alongside my previous steps, is to overall practice driving more, learn the area I live in so I can adapt to changes in situations and not freeze up instead. This can allow me to struggle much less and keep myself and those around me safer while driving. Another thing I can do is to not let myself be distracted by other people in my car. I usually get caught up in conversations with my family during driving practice, and end up making some critical failures because of this. This partially isn’t my fault as I don’t always instigate these, but I can still not let them distract me during crucial moments of my driving. Taking a stance reversal here, I can help others be safer on the road by not forcing them to take their concentration off the road to converse with me. I can do this by either simply not talking or not delving into deeper thoughtful topics. A final thing I can do to help others be safer is to point out any mistakes the driver makes every so-often, and to give advice if asked about it. This can lead to further growth of the other person’s driving skills, as well as improve my own self-awareness.

To summarize all of these points, driver education is important in preventing deaths on the road through showing people the right way to drive. You can also take extra steps by turning your phone off in the car, not driving yourself around while drunk, and being fully rested before driving out on the road. I’ve seen first-hand bad habits and that they’re caused by a lack of punishment, then end up building to an incident. You can also take personal steps by learning the area that you commonly drive around, and not losing yourself to interpersonal conversation. You can also assist others in driving by not instigating deep thoughtful conversation on the road, and to give advice on mistakes the one driving might make.