I believe the importance of driver education to decrease the number of deaths is incredibly important. The youngest age that one can start driving is , and to get your license, 16. There are vulnerable young teenagers in the world every day driving day and night. There are also parents with newborns and children in the back of their cars. It is important to acknowledge that not learning education could kill not only the driver, but the passengers, and who else is in the car alone. It’s important to us as society to take note of this, and teach the youth in person safer ways to take the roads.
There are so many ways we can help pass on and carry out this important message. To have more in person studies on drivers ed inside our local DMV’s everywhere, and not online classes where many teenagers can skip the videos. And if teenagers are taking it online, actually require more videos of real life situations so teenagers can see how real it is and make it to where it cannot be skipped so that we are teaching an entire youth safe driving. A big part of this. It’s just inexperience so society when preparing teenagers and beginners, we truly do have to push on getting them hands on experience to prevent death and crashing amongst others. Also, if we are more strict, we are pulling people over and actually restricting licenses and limiting their use on the road because their license is restricted. It’ll teach people a lesson to never do it again because it sucks when it’s restricted and you have restrictions on it. A lot of people get excuses to officers and let them go. That’s why it’s continuously done because citizens do have that upper hand and vending rules if authority pushes more on restricting license than it absolutely can help reduce reckless driving and death.
I myself have experienced a friend driving very reckless and irresponsibly. Her excuse is that we were late and that needed to be on time, but that could’ve been preventable. No matter how eager the situation is, driving faster and reckless will never help. There were many times where there were stoplights and improper passing was done twice, once at a stop sign, which is extremely dangerous because that’s where most accidents happen and improper passing is a very illegal and very expensive ticket as well. on a two-way lane crossing in front of another car there were another car in front of us passing along we would’ve gotten hit head on. Not only was it irresponsible driving that could’ve been an extreme amount of tickets if we would’ve gotten pulled over and her license could’ve got taken away and it should have. Your life does flash before your eyes, because in any moment, something could go horribly wrong. This is why the death rate is so high for drivers.
For me, it was a learning experience to never drive that way even in a rush and even when it matters, I still have control over the wheel and no matter what I do I will get to the location when I get there. There are so many steps I take into being a safe driver, and still learning not to drive recklessly. All it takes is a second. And everything could be gone. It’s absolutely not worth it. That’s what people don’t understand. It all starts with my headspace, I always make sure I have a clear mind when driving, even if I’m having a bad day, I still do have to remember. I am behind the wheel. And even when in a rush, I still understand that I will get to the location in those couple steps alone help tremendously with not only me being a safe driver but others around me. Another huge thing that I always look out for is space in between cars giving people room and time to turn time to start their vehicle when a green light comes back on and making sure that I would merge onto another lane. I have space to do so. Space is incredible on the road and it prevents a lot of damage to your car as well and when you give other space to cars on the road, they’ll get that hint and they’ll do that to other cars in lanes and at stoplights. Every single step you take into learning about what vehicle you end up driving, it is important and that’s what I do every time I step in the car and drop my brother off to school and especially for myself and making sure that other cars around me get that hint.