Name: Ismael Angel Nunez
From: Mission, Texas
Votes: 0
Safe
Driving is the Best Driving
Be
focused . Driving is one of the most overlooked tasks, yet you have a
lot of things to consider when you’re behind the wheel. Road
circumstances, the pace and job, observing traffic laws, signs,
signals, road markings, following directions, being mindful of the
cars at you, seeing the mirrors – the list goes on. Staying focused
on traveling – and just driving – is important to good driving.
Distractions, like talking on the phone or eating, make the driver
less able to find possible issues and the right response to them.
It’s not only teen drivers who are at fault: People who have been
traveling for quite some time will get overconfident at their driving
abilities and make their driving skills go sloppy. All drivers want
to inform themselves to be focused.
Don’t
rely entirely on driver training. Drivers ed may be a
convenient choice to give teenagers to the mechanics of drive, but it
doesn’t make safer drivers. Bad skills aren’t usually to blame
for teen wrecks. Adolescents’ attitudes, education, and
decision-making matter more. Adolescent people look to overestimate
their accomplishments and estimate their vulnerabilities. Education
doesn’t alter these dispositions. Equals are important, but parents
take often more effect than typically is credited to them. Restrict
night drive. Nearly 2 of 5 teenage drivers’ unfortunate crashes
happen between 9 p.m and 6 a.m. The question isn’t simply the
taking in the scene requires more skill behind the wheel. Past
outings tend to be activity, and yet teenagers who normally follow
these rules may be easily distracted or encouraged to take risks.
Consider setting a curfew for teenagers.
“Ultimately
it is going to lead to our roadways being safer as drivers change
their habits and put their phones away while they are driving,” a
source said. “Distracted drivers run red lights, they sit through
green lights, they speed, they drive too slow, the run the whole
gamut of traffic safety code.”
What
can you and your family do to drive safer? It is easy to be
distracted while driving. To help be part of the solution, I’ve
created a family safe driving list offering ideas to be safer drivers
– not just for yourself but for your entire family. These steps are
all affirmative actions that we can take – they are not “ don’t
do this and don’t do that”. This is all about what we can all do
to prevent distracted crashes and in doing them we have the power to
save lives !