Name: Sabrina McFarland
From: Littleton, Colorado
Votes: 0
In Drivers ed, instructors show graphic videos and awful
pictures to scare the students. Those media don’t create more
cautious drivers, they simply scare the kids at the time and don’t
affect them in the long run. Once they’re scared in the situation,
what do they do? Teaching oncoming drivers how to drive rather than
showing them numbers and images to terrify them would help them more
as they learn how to drive themselves. Tell them what to do if
there’s suddenly standstill traffic. Tell them what to do if
someone suddenly cuts them off. Tell them what to do if a car keeps
swerving into their lane. These common issues have caused so many
accidents simply because people panic. Drivers can only control
themselves and their own cars. Giving instruction on how to react in
near collision incidents will help kids avoid them better than
scaring them with images. Automatically, drivers will have the
fundamentals to avoid accidents if they’re in a bad situation. That
can lower the number of deaths related to driving simply because
accidents can be avoided. I have been in multiple car accidents, but
none of them were serious. When I was a baby, a truck hit my family’s
car from behind and knocked us into a ditch. No one was harmed, but
if the circumstances were slightly changed, I could be dead. My
mother has a friend who got into an accident two years ago, and she
still has issues from an awful concussion she got from it. Because of
the experiences I’ve had personally and the stories I’ve heard, I
ty not to get into the car of someone I know drives recklessly. My
father is one I rarely let drive me anywhere because he deliberately
almost hit a car to scare them. The reason? As he said, “They
pulled out when they didn’t have right of way.” The car turned
right as my father turned left. The car wasn’t going to pull into
the lane my father was. The only thing I could do in that situation
was ask him not to “serve out justice” while I was in the car. As
for my own driving, I can be simply more attentive. There are times
my music is too loud, or perhaps I pay less attention to my
surroundings because I think there aren’t many people. If I stop
doing that, I can prevent creating situations in which I could not
only get into an accident, but in which I could die.
