Name: Gulizere Abudula
From: Annandale , Virginia
Votes: 0
Gulizere
3
Drive
safe to not only help yourself but many others
During
my sophomore year in high school, I’ve mandatorily took the
drivers ed class for one semester. Every high school in Fairfax
County are responsible for all the students to learn how to drive
safe before they get their driver’s permit and start driving. Back
then I took the class only to maintain my grade. I thought driving is
easy, all I need to know is where is the brake, where is the gas
pedal, and all the signs on the road. But as I started to pay more
attention, I realized that driving involves much more than that.
Collaboration, reading others, pay 100% attention to the road, and
most importantly it involves another person’s life and mine as
well. It seems very easy, driving from one distance to another, get
to the destination. But when it involves another person’s life, it
can never be easy.
When
I first got my driver’s permit, which allows me to drive with my
cousins who have much longer experience and over 21 on my side, I was
fascinated by a teenager like me could be able to drive at such a
young age. In many other country people are not allowed to drive
under age 18. Adolescence is a dangerous time. Teenagers show poor
judgment in risky situations, and with the decision-making areas of
their brains still developing. They tend to be more rational. Both
males and females between the ages of 16 and 20 are at least twice as
likely to be in car accidents than drivers between the ages of 20 and
50 are. This shows that driving at such young age maybe help parents
save lots of time and trips, but on the other hand, it also higher
the risk of their children’s life. Specially as the technology
grow, phone, laptop, iPad has become one of the main parts of our
life. People texting, sending snaps, posting pictures to their social
media while they are driving without realizing that their
irresponsible action could cause unimaginable tragical consequence.
This isn’t only point to adolescence, but to everyone who has
influenced by modern technology.
Fortunately,
realizing the importance of safe driving, I’ve always drive with my
most attention and communicating with other drivers as much as I can.
But as a follower of multiple social media, I’ve heard many tragic
news. Many people drive with their phone on, texting which caused
their life at the end. There was a news about two teen girls killed
in a car crash while filming Instagram live-stream video. This is how
much we have influenced by the social media, at the point where we
don’t even care about our own life.
To
avoid the tragic to happen again, we should advertise
phone-prohibition while driving advertisement banner in every campus
and public places, like public library, restaurant, metro station,
bus station to show the severity of texting while driving. And
increase the attention on public drivers ed, like
mandatorily let student take the class to help them understand the
importance of safe driving. If possible, raise the age of driving to
18. It might will cause inconvenient to their parents, but for
safety, extra 3 more years of drivers ed will help them to
avoid much risky situation.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-teen-brain-too-rational/?redirect=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_driving_age
https://au.news.yahoo.com/snapchat-video-reveals-final-moments-of-woman-before-fatal-crash-215744935.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFy_6X8iLRhabJ0iIig-4mm-4XHDrzV0UvKLJ78A69890XaTMzL8fzxl70ZnH6LZVChaIkY9kLS9_ZyHN_hUytAsXgISbSN3D-wsMhd021XxtKRQ1qaUbwKyw9AFlSzV8OFj81cUs181O15wp1f91Wz1k7RtHe-flN5HfKYh03C3
Work
Cited
Farley,
Frank. “Is the Teen Brain Too Rational?” Scientific American,
1 June 2007,
www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-teen-brain-too-rational/?redirect=1.
“List
of Countries by Minimum Driving Age.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia
Foundation, 15 May 2019,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_driving_age.
“Snapchat
Video Reveals Final Moments of Woman, 21, before Horrific Fatal
Crash.” Yahoo! News, Yahoo!, 29 Apr. 2019,
au.news.yahoo.com/snapchat-video-reveals-final-moments-of-woman-before-fatal-crash-215744935.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFy_6X8iLRhabJ0iIig-4mm-4XHDrzV0UvKLJ78A69890XaTMzL8fzxl70ZnH6LZVChaIkY9kLS9_ZyHN_hUytAsXgISbSN3D-wsMhd021XxtKRQ1qaUbwKyw9AFlSzV8OFj81cUs181O15wp1f91Wz1k7RtHe-flN5HfKYh03C3.
