Driver Education Round 1
The Importance of Educating Drivers
Logan R Rysavy
Saint Ansgar, IA
I believe that the automotive industry has done an exceptional job when making vehicles safe for everyone to drive. Most times I believe that Many people have not been educated in the defensive driving category. After learning many defensive driving Attributes, many people have not been educated in what to do in certain situations, such as at a four-way stop when they were not the first person to stop there. Since I am a Midwestern I am known to wave people along first and always be the last one to go. but I believe that a lot of other people do not follow that, which I am okay with since it is just a Midwestern attribute. Even though most people do not live in the Midwest and do not have this kind of niceness and some people might say I think it's a great thing to share on the road and everybody would drive happier and safer having these kinds of characteristics.I also believe that the public advertisers have done their absolute best job in educating the public as to what dangers come with driving without a seatbelt.
I know many people do not follow this rule, such as a few friends of mine in high school. I sure hope that one day they have an incident that will teach them to wear their seatbelt all the time. I have had a couple near-misses with some friends, Such as when we were racing a buddy we never saw the deer in the road and almost hit them and we were both not wearing seatbelts because we hadn't been paying attention on that drive. That was one of my moments where I realized I needed to wear a seatbelt no matter what was going on. Because if I would have gone through the windshield that day I would have more than likely died. I would not have the future college life that I would without wearing a seatbelt. I do know that my couple friends that don't wear seat belts and have driven drunk before and I sure hope once again that they have an experience that teaches them the right way to drive.
I hope to drive safer by educating them of the dangers of driving drunk or without a seatbelt. I know that many people do not care to drive with a seatbelt but I for sure want to drive with a seatbelt because I know it is very dangerous to drive without one. Sometimes even these friends realize that they should have been wearing a seatbelt, such as one day in school they were giving out candy for kids who were wearing their seatbelts. They told me that they wish they were wearing their seatbelts because they would have got the free candy. I'm sure this didn't teach them a lot, but they hopefully had a little lesson on wearing seat belts. Even though most people say or I'm only going a couple of miles I know that those couple miles are the most dangerous miles in any drive. In the end I believe that the public has educated all drivers the best they can and that it is in our hands being drivers now to take the wheel and keep the roads as safe as possible.
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