2024 Driver Education Round 3
My Road to Hope and Peace
Sione Kauvaka Roy Ma'ake
Chandler, Arizona
The steps we need to take on having peaceful roads is to simply build our common sense. We need more common sense taught in our homes and our schools. Like we should be teaching that it is way smarter and safer to drive sober than drunk. Students need to start understanding that driving laws are not here to limit us or keep us in a box. They are here to help us to stay on the path of peace so that we can have fun while driving and others can have a good time as well. We all need common sense to buckle up, I mean the car itself is literally telling us to buckle up. So unless you wanna hear non stop beeping in the I would highly suggest, BUCKLE UP! You know it's also common sense to keep your emotions in check while driving. Imagine trying to drive with full of hate and sadness, it's not gonna be a fun time while driving and someone's going to get hurt. Also limit the night driving, like going to bed.
Lets see there is actually a story where I did in fact experience a car accident, while being in the car that was mainly responsible for that accident. So first off it wasn't my fault, so to go back to the story its was me and three other friends just hanging out and at the time we carpooled whenever we wanted to hang out. So our friend picks up the three of us and we were on our way to a movie and right now; none of us are buckled, we are bumping some loud music, and we are all on our phones. I'm surprised we haven't crashed at all prior to this incident. Anyways there was a four way stop coming up, what we didn't do was to check for that stop sign, so we just floored it and surely enough one car stopped at the four way and decided to go and they didn't see us coming and so we hit them dead on center. We were all so lucky that no one got majorly hurt, but our friend not only lost his car but he also he lost his driving privileges.
You know some steps that I can start taking in order to build a more peaceful road and be able to provide hope to the next generation that will soon start driving with less distractions. I always like to eat or drink while I'm driving, but I'm realizing that it's not the safest thing to do or the most sanitary. So next I got to get a four for four at Wendy's. I'll just park somewhere I can just relax and only worry about eating. Maybe when gas goes down I can start practicing my driving skills. I mean everyone can always brush up on their driving skills since no one is a perfect driver, but there's some skill in driving that I can always improve. You know something I can do before even starting the car is just to check my surroundings. Just like making sure my mirrors are good, my lights work, and checking out if the car is drivable. We can always improve and adapt on how to keep out roads peaceful and provide hope.
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