Name: Spencer Gordon
From: Cedarburg, Wisconsin
Votes: 0
Thanks to the
increased efforts of education in the driver’s license process, the
number of fatalities related to driving accidents reduces with every
passing year. However, there still leaves a lot to be done, and an
increased education process is one way of solving those problems. By
learning the rules of the road properly, accidents are more likely to
be avoided. This may sound like a simple and logical conclusion, but
the fact is that so many drivers don’t know or disregard the rules
of the road, that accidents that could easily be prevented still
happen on a disappointingly regular basis.
The more we make
drivers ed something that is emphasized and encouraged, the
more we can get people to listen.It is especially important to get
the rules and common practices into the minds of young drivers,
during their early education stages for driving. The requirement for
having adults drive in the car with them for the first few months is
a good idea too. It helps students just learning the road have a
longer period of education from more experienced drivers. Perhaps
another good idea would be to extend the length of education time.
This may annoy some people, but more time with education means more
time to properly grasp the rules and to remember them. Combining
written work with on the road or in the field work is also a good way
to help the guidelines stay in place. With physical experience, the
things learned in the classroom become more real and understandable.
I have, thankfully,
never been in a car accident. I have had family members and friends
who got in fender benders or scrapes, mainly due to not paying
attention or being overly confident. Those seem like things that
happen as a person gets older. They know the rules perfectly well,
but they were either being forgetful and not paying attention, or
were overconfident and decided to disregard some guidelines to “save
time” or some such reason. If there is one thing I would like to
see change, it would be to eliminate that idea of “I’m smarter
than the rules and can drive how I want”. That attitude has caused
more deaths on the road than ignorance alone has. It won’t be easy
to stop that though, as that stems purely from a personal attitude
and cannot really be changed by outside forces. Hopefully people will
see that that is unsafe driving and they will change.
I personally intend
to follow all rules and guidelines and to drive cautiously. I
typically drive as if everyone else doesn’t know the rules, and
that helps me stay on my toes as I look out for bad drivers. When you
assume you are the only good driver on the road, you avoid everyone
as if they are a bad driver, thereby easily avoiding accidents.
