Attentive Driving

Eric
Smith

6/30/2019

Driver
Education Initiative Award – Scholarship Opportunity

Drivers
education for new drivers is very important. It gives specific
instructions from professionals on how to perform on the road.
Instead informal teaching from family and friends. The informal
teaching isn’t wrong but isn’t the best for new drivers because the
professional teaching not only prepares you for what to come on the
road but to also what to be aware of when encountering certain
situations. Drivers ed is a gradual step process, the
instructors don’t just allow you to hop in a vehicle and drive
unlike a lot of at home teachings from family and friends.
Instructors have planning and know how to go about teaching certain
students when coming in to receive a driver’s license.

To
reduce the deaths related to driving, we should be stricter on newer
drivers. There should be rules and regulations emplaced in every
state that are similar, so that every new driver can live by. For the
drivers that are not new there should be classes that could be
offered everywhere school, workplaces, etc. that give the statistics
of driving accidents. Making the people aware of what is going on
daily to make them second guess a lot of what they do on the road.
Something that could take place once every six months or annually
just to let the people know that fatal driving accidents are real and
a lot of them could have been avoided if they put down a phone, or
focused more on the road, or didn’t multitask while driving.

I
have been in a handful of accidents, but there is one that stood out
to me the most. A few friends and I were coming back from another
college and the driver of the vehicle fell asleep at the wheel. That
experience opened my eyes a lot more to driving accidents and how
they can affect your life at a blink of an eye. Luckily in my
situation there weren’t any major injuries in the situation, but a
lesson learned from the situation and that lesson was to follow you
first instinct with riding and driving with friends. At the beginning
of the drive we asked the friend that was driving the vehicle was he
tired he replied no but his signs and body language said otherwise.
Those type of lessons should be taught to new drivers how to pay
attention to the driver of the vehicle and how to take over when
necessary or know how to talk to people out of making those crazy
decisions.

Steps
I can take to be a better and safer driver is paying more attention
than I already do to the road. Don’t let things distract me phone,
music, anything that could deter me from what I need to be doing and
that’s driving. I could allow my phone to be put on a certain
setting when driving. I could also move slower sometimes I often move
very fast in a lot of situations. I could slow down my pace. Road
rage to when I want to spazz out I could breath and think ad relax.

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