The Importance of Drivers Education

Driver’s education is a key aspect in the overall well being of any nation. If left out a country would experience mass chaos and deaths left and right of reckless uneducated drivers. If people were left up to their own devices about driving and its importance then the result would be of course catastrophic. But if there is a regulated education system for teaching people how to drive and what is expected of drivers, then everyone is on the same page and is knowledgeable on the topic of driving. If everyone is a good driver then of course the number of accidents is going to drop drastically. The more people know the better they are going to be. That is just how life works and driving is no different.

The steps needed to reduce the number of driving deaths are quite simple. Get people the proper driver training required to get a licence but even before that, make it harder to get a licence if unqualified people are causing accidents why should they have the privilege in the first place? Don’t just let every person who walks into the doors walk out with the ability to kill people because of incompetence. The reality is that it would not even affect most of the people trying to get a driver’s licence, it would just weed out the people who really shouldn’t have one in the first place. Another step would be to do mandatory retesting every fifteen years or so to make sure that drivers have not slacked off and are dangerous because they have forgotten the rules. It’s not that smart to have people cram to pass the permit test then go unchecked for sixty years while their brains slowly but surely push out all the information that made them a good driver years ago.

As a driver myself I have had my license for just about two years now one of which was my fault the other was completely unavoidable on my part and that i had no fault in. The first accident was certainly my fault. I was not paying close enough attention to what was in front of me and ran a red light and hit someone who was in the middle of a left hand turn. Although I wasn’t going particularly fast it was still enough to total my car and cause significant damage to the other. The second accident about a month and a half ago I was driving down a street with a right of way all the way through. There was a street that met the street I was driving on at just one point and ended there, which means the cars there either had to turn right or left; there was no straight. There was no streetlight at this intersection but the joining road had a stop sign, there was a completely reckless driver that before even hitting me drove up onto the sidewalk to get around the line of cars at the stop sign then did not stop at the stop sign at all and pulled out right in front of me and i T boned him. After the impact he drove off right away and the cops never caught up to him, completely totaling the second car of my short driving career.

Some steps that I could take to be a better driver is not focusing on my music so much. I often distract myself with my music on its maximum volume and singing along so much that I have some lapses in focus while operating my vehicle. If I chill out on the tunes and focus on keeping myself and my brother who I drive to school and back every day safe it will make getting from point A to point B a lot safer. I also believe that most drivers in general are much too distracted to be safe while driving a car. I’ve seen that especially prevalent in my home state of Arizona, left and right there are phones in hands or food being eaten even on busy freeways. Many people think that they are too good for using their blinkers and just merge wildly not really caring about anyone else’s drive. But the worst thing for me about Arizona drivers is the tailgating on an Arizona freeway if you are not going eighty miles an hour someone is going to be riding your tail, lucky my parents instilled in me to keep my safe space at all times but the drivers here like to think that that safe space is an invitation for the to but their way in in front of me. If we crack down on at least one of these things then driving will be drastically safer for everyone.