Name: [email protected]
From: COVENTRY TOWNSHIP, OH
Votes: 0
Cruise
Control By Brooke Sells
Driving
is essential and important to almost everyone on earth, yet we shut
our minds off when we do it. The importance of driving has increased
over time as well as the need to further educate those who are just
starting to learn. When reducing the number of deaths as a result of
driving, I think of not only educating new drivers but to recertify
current ones too. Education for driving is compacted into only
twenty-four hours of attendance, if it is so important why not
lengthen the period of learning and allow for a more extensive
process to occur. In recent years, drivers ed has started
teaching the importance of texting and driving, but what about those
who were certified before the new regulations?
Driving
related deaths can be reduced by a recertification in drivers
education every four-years, just like our license being renewed! Some
steps we can follow are to start drivers ed courses younger
than fifteen years of age. Lowering the age of students allows for a
larger period of absorption, younger students tend to retain more
information than their older peers. Another step would be adding
drivers safety into the classroom. Students at school could benefit
from hearing the information from a trusted adult, such as a teacher,
more than their own parents. To reduce the number of deaths due to
driving or operating a vehicle, we must start enforcing heavier
traffic laws, or simply enforcing the once we already have. Adults
who are caught and let go are more likely to do it again than someone
who hasn’t been caught at all.
As
a teenager in the twenty-ten decade I have seen phones evolve from
flip phones to retina display touch screens. Due to that I have been
involved in some risky situations where my friends have been
distracted by the buzzing in his or her pocket or playing the music
too loudly to pull over for rescue vehicles. But don’t think this
only goes for teens, my parents (who grew up without phones) are
guilty of not being able to resist the constant news feed being
displayed by family members on applications such as, Facebook and
Instagram. When I see this kind of activity I try my best to keep
them talking to me and focus more at what is at stake, our lives.
The
way to help others around you become better and safer drivers is to
act upon example. Especially when having teens or young children in
the car. There are also some other ways to amplify the need to be a
safe driver, leaving reminder signs in your yard for drivers to
notice and hopefully act in the safest way possible. In undesirable
weather, as a driver you could go five under the speed limit to show
others that there is danger or slick roads ahead. We learn all of
this in drivers ed at 15 years old but who remembers, right?
