Drivers Ed Essay

It is essential for people wanting to drive to receive a driving education. Having the ability to learn how to drive can help save the lives of those who would be dead if people had not taken lessons on driving. By learning how to drive, it will be much easier for people dying from cars to not happen so often with these lessons. It is sad to see that so many people are dying from these cars when their deaths could have been prevented if driving education was pushed more or more affordable to people.

There are so many ways to prevent preventable deaths from happening, so I will share some with you. One step would be making driving courses more easily accessible to low-income people. If everyone can get some sort of driving education, then no one will need to die a pointless death from something that could be prevented from learning how to drive. Also, with many people learning how to drive, the streets become much safer from car accidents and such.

Another step in reducing the number of deaths from driving would be to up the age you are allowed to drive a car to 18 legally. It is a well-known fact that most car crashes happen from inexperienced drivers, aka, teenagers. Teenagers do not have decades’ worth of driving experience like some adults, so they are more susceptible to making deadly and costly mistakes. By raising the age to 18 for driving, teenagers can gain more experience by driving with an adult instead of being left to their own accord at 16.

My final step would require people to retest their driving test every five or so years. After a while, people may forget the rules and regulations on our roads, leading to tragic deaths from very simple mistakes. With this testing, people will be more up-to-date on their driving knowledge and will be able to drive safer than before. This also helps figure out which people should or should not be allowed to drive on the roads.

It was a handful of months ago, but my mom and I were in a car accident. We were at a stop light in my school’s parking lot, and someone behind us just rammed into us. We later found out that this was because this lady’s brakes were not working so well/they were broken. The crash was quite jarring, to say the least. It was scary to know that this woman was just driving a car with no working breaks, and acting like it was okay.

When my aunt drives me and my brother to school, I catch her driving irresponsibly. There are times when she does not look before crossing lanes, almost leading to a car crash and potentially injuring me or my brother. There are times when she drives in the middle of the lane, making me feel a little scared for my safety since she does not decide to pick a lane to stay in. She can also get quite easily distracted from the things around her, like the sky and such, leading her to make some bad driving decisions. My aunt is not a bad driver since she has been driving for about three decades, but I believe that she is just not very aware of her surroundings sometimes, which is also quite dangerous on the road.

Finally, my friends’ driving capabilities. Honest to the heavens above, they are pretty good drivers, for the most part. My friend likes to speed a lot and has gone 80 miles per hour at a 30-mile-per-hour speed limit, which is highly dangerous and reckless. He does know a lot about driving, but following the correct speed limit seems to not be a main focus for him.

To become a better and safer driver, I have to learn how to drive defensively. I have to make sure that I will not endanger myself or others with my actions. Looking to see if cars are coming so I can turn or switch lanes, follow proper turn signals, and make sure to give the vehicles ahead of me some good distance so I don’t crash into them when coming to a quick stop. I also have to learn about the many driving laws and how to follow them accordingly. Like knowing when to turn, or reading certain signs correctly and understanding what they all mean. With these steps, I can learn to become a better and safer driver for myself and others. To keep the streets safer from car accidents and deaths from simple driving mistakes.