Culture of Drivers and Importance of Drivers ed

When you hear about a car
accident, the first instinct is to wonder just what went wrong, and
the answer is often that the driver of the car failed to drive
according to road law. This is in part due to a lack of driver
education, which is a huge issue when cars are all depending on each
other on the road to be able to drive safely. On its own, the nature
of car travel presents a lot of potential trouble, and having a
higher amount of drivers ed on road law and safety would only
help to decrease the dangers of roadway driving. The facts are true,
and without an increased initiative on drivers, the number of
driving-related deaths could become practically an epidemic. At this
point, we are already past the number of war-related deaths, and it
will only get worse with a continued ignorance to the lack of driver
education.

Everyday
for school I make a twenty-minute drive to school and the same
twenty-minute drive back home, heading from a suburban area to a busy
downtown. At the point I’m at, I have seen several types of
accidents from a range of causes, but primarily, it has been related
to driver error. A common argument I see from friends of mine to
justify not using a turn signal is that the cars will see them
anyway, how could they possibly miss an entire car? The reality is
that we have the rule in place so that cars- who cannot read the
minds of other drivers as much as they seem to- can have an idea of
what a car will do. There is also an issue with speed, and while
sometimes a forty mile an hour limit seems a little slow, its
necessary to respect it for the sake of pedestrians, other cars and
emergency vehicles that might need a lane. These are small but
incredibly prevalent issues that I see during my daily drives, and
they are by far the biggest cause for driver-caused accidents.

For
an answer to these issues, the best way to impress a problem upon
people is to put the reality of it in their spaces and around them
constantly, both online and physically present. The culture of
skirting the laws is a strong one, and to move the core of lazy
driving and passive law breaking would be to encourage safe driving
to be something worth committing to. The fear of death isn’t a
major one if you aren’t bothered by it, and numbers can only do so
much. The combination of the two- facts and culture changing- could
be a pretty impressive duo to work against the lack of driver
education that we currently have. The encouragement of drivers to
learn the ways of the roads to make the drive a safer endeavor can
only be a good one. It’s the responsibility of all drivers to
consider their place as a driver and how their own respect of road
laws and regulations to keep everyone safe.