The thought of losing someone close to you like a mother, father, friend, or even someone you just go to class with may not even be a thought in your mind but one day you may wake up and that person who was a constant in your life can be gone. You have seen them drive around and make it from one place to the next without an accident but even though that may prove to be true it does not necessarily mean an accident cannot happen or that there is no room for improvement or understanding when you are getting in a vehicle.
I have experienced first-hand the irresponsible driving of someone close to me and that was my father. I was 16 years old and still had not gotten my license yet when my dad was picking me up from work and he was under the influence. At first, I tried to tell him to call someone else but seeing that he was not in a place to listen and was aggressive he continued to drive. His reckless driving could have ended not only my life and his but someone else who was expecting someone to come home to them. And furthermore, his driving single-handedly was one of the most intense stressful moments of my life and from that moment forward I made the biggest effort to know how to drive properly and safely.
To further explain how I improved my safe driving I took a drivers ed course to make sure I fully understood the dynamic of driving before I got on the road. The course explains road safety and helps you acquire your driving permit and eventually leads you on the path to getting your license. Although that is my approach to safer driving, an alternative approach for someone could be asking any questions you are confused about whether it’s highways or back roads to an older adult with more experience or being mindful of distractions, for example your phone or loud music and just being aware that the decisions you make can change someone’s life. If we choose to ignore what we need to improve on and think that we are all perfect drivers, then it could lead to death and according to reports 34,000 people die in one year because of driving.
Death because of the result of driving highlights the absolute necessity of driver education everywhere. From one state to the next a life is a life and when we realize that it can be from the thing that’s supposed to protect us to get one place from the next it fuels the question that are we taking enough measures to understating drivers' education? The answer is simple and it’s no and this is shown through the number of deaths that have occurred in a year and continue to grow as we don’t make room for improvement in drivers' education. Because we know this, we must take action to change and it’s important that people can feel relief when they send their kid off to college, or their picking up their child from school, or even just going to a restaurant for dinner it’s important that people can trust the individuals who live right next door or across the world. Because so many individuals start driving at young ages, they have the chance to learn early on of the mistakes that they make when entering a vehicle and it’s the job of the adults and DMV’s to ensure that those mistakes are brought up and the correct way to direct them into following the right way. A method that I think would be most beneficial to drivers that would prevent the number of deaths is a seminar class that’s engaging and shows how to quickly and safely avoid an accident or if hit the proper maneuvering that can steer your car away from others, reducing the number of deaths significantly. If you're questioning how that would help think for example, of two cars entering a head on collision and one of the cars begins maneuvering into another direction about to hit more oncoming traffic if the driver is aware and able to take control knowing how to safely get the car out of more harm's way it can save one if not many more from passing or significant injuries.
As time goes on technology advances and cars become more in control of taking you from one place to another but ultimately the person behind the wheel is going to affect the trajectory of his/her life or someone else’s so being an educated driver is never something to procrastinate or learn to be better about because the lives of others and ourselves are literally in our hands.