I'm in the Driver's Seat

Driving is a privilege and not a right! Those who know the rules of the road, understand them, get their beginners and if they are a dissent drivers, they get their fulls in hope they improve. The only problem with this is that after they get their fulls, some people think they don’t need to fallow the speed limits or rule of the sorts. So my question is, what is the importance of drivers ed?

To start off, drivers ed is extremely important for the simple reason that it’s essential for safety. All the time, people speed, don’t signal their intentions, text and drive, drive impaired and the list goes on. What these all have in common? They all slow reaction time as shown in Canada’s Worst Drivers. In one of the episode, they told the contestants to do what they normally do when driving like eating, texting, doing makeup at the same time as they drive in an infinity loop. The final result is that none of them are able to properly drive and end up going off track showing the dangers of distracted driving or impaired driving.

So what can we do to stop these bad habits? Have more police officers on the road? Re-educate them? Well, the answer is, you can’t stop them. There will always be somebody thinking nothing will ever happen to them and will keep doing whatever they do when driving.

Even if we boost the amount of public transportation around the populated areas and make it free, there will always be drivers on the roads and human error is inevitable.

Since we can’t change how others drive, you can only improve how you drive, but how do you do that? To start, you can make sure you know and understand the rules of the road; get rid of bad habits when driving and be aware of your surroundings. If you feel tired, you shouldn’t drive.

With all these actions people do, it’s surprising that I’ve never been in an accident! I’m not saying I’m a perfect driver; far from it, but it goes to show that from my point of view, even though they annoy me, not everyone is a bad driver. However, there is much improvement to be done.