How to Rectify Driving

Intro to the Dangers of Driving

Driving is a relatively mundane task that most take far to lite for the immediate and cascading afflictions it can have on their lives. General education on the rules and expectations of the road is an excellent way to even prevent accidents before they start. General understanding of how you drive on the road and the rules on how to act around others leads to less confusion and frustration allowing for all parties involved on the road to continue about their day seamlessly. Better education of how drivers should behave on the road in bad weather and traffic will also help with accidents. Some people go too fast or drive too recklessly in high winds, pouring rain, or blanketing snow beyond the threshold of safety. Some people, in general, drive so recklessly because they are rushed to be somewhere. With proper education of the rules, expectations, etiquette, and dangers of driving. People would take the dangers of driving seriously.

Driving’s Shortcomings and how to Fix Them

With the countries of Europe there are far more barriers for someone to get their driver’s license. More tests of both knowledge and skill. This raises the bar for people allowed to safely drive on the road. Now with this raised bar, the people on the road are more responsible and competent. If America were to use this enforcement, then roads would be safer for all drivers. One big problem remains, the road itself.

The quality of the road that people drive on needs to be reassessed. I can’t properly convey just how bad some of the roads can be. Potholes, crumbling narrowing asphalt, and nonexistent road markers. All of which are surrounded by developed homes and land. If they aren’t, then it might as well be pitch black. The discrepancy in the quality of the roads and the quality of the community it supports is wide. Confusing and concerning roads can lead drivers, possibly driving on these roads for the first time, to make costly mistakes such as not seeing proper lanes, stressing on missing a turn, and or having their car get damaged by a pothole. People should not have to assume where their place in the road is.

Some would point out that cars have headlights, which certainly does help with the problem of driving at night. However, what of people with older cars? Cars where their headlights are either small, weak, or both. After market lights are a safe bet, but you walk a fine line of legality and insurance. These problems do not hold a shine to one glaring issue.

As someone who drives a car from 2003, a GMC Envoy, which isn’t a short car nor that old. I still find myself almost completely blind while night driving because there isn’t a standard of curtesy in the design of new cars. Mercedes had an advertisement featuring how bright their lights are. Bright enough to shine through the skin of a cow crossing the road. The fact that they are proud of lights that bright means they aren’t thinking of the people driving the car and the people driving around the car. There are regulations on the headlights, but they need to be reviewed. People find night time driving so frustrating because of how headache inducing other people’s lights can be. It can be especially bad if people are using them to purposely irritate. Which leads me back to improving the education of drivers so that they really know how dangerous driving can be.

Personal Stories

I have never personally been in a car accident; I’ve thankfully only had close calls. One where my car drifted on ice because I put myself in that dangerous situation, another because of someone else on the road, and lastly one where my car almost went off the road because of a deep pothole on a turn. My sister hasn’t been so fortunate. She got in a nasty fender bender because of rain making the road slick. That doesn’t seem exactly irresponsible so I shall tell another. My brother is a good driver, he had to learn how to carefully park trucks hauling lawn care equipment into a driveway with other cars. He always parks his sizable truck, by reversing into the parking spot. One day, when he was driving home he was at a stop light sitting behind another truck with a trailer hitch. Then he mind fogged and idled into the back of the other truck. The best jokes you cant write.

My Own Driving

I could be a better driver. Personally, for me, it’s just a matter of practice. I don’t drive often and when I do it on a route I have driven before. So, whenever I am caught in some place I have never driven, I am like a fish out of water and mistakes are abound.