Residential Driving

I struggled so much when learning to drive, I didn’t think I would ever be able to get my license. Everytime I go out and drive something different would always go wrong. I would get too caught up in the freedom of driving and listening to the blaring music that I would forget something. When I first started I wouldn’t think it would ever be this hard because my parents make it look so easy. When I was fifteen I was learning how to drive, but I kept struggling with a couple different aspects of driving. Eventually after I kept practicing I was able to perfect the art of driving, and come closer to becoming an adult.

I sat on the driver’s seat nervously and took a deep breath. It was a hot Saturday afternoon; the sun was starting to fall and my mom and I were at the Department of Public Safety practicing for my driver’s test. My mom was sitting on the passenger’s seat and reckoned, “Aggie, you will be fine” as I finished parallel parking. This was probably the hundredth time we had practiced and every single one had different outcomes.

Drivers can practice several safety tips to help them navigate the road more safely. First, use your cell phone for emergency situations only.  Pull over to the right shoulder to make the important call.  Next, limit the number of passengers in the car.  It is a good idea after a football game for a group of teenagers to drive around town texting and driving.  Driving with friends can create a dangerous driving situation because drivers are focused on their friends rather than on the road.  Finally, avoid eating while driving.  Food spills are a major cause of distraction.  Pick up a big Mac and fries on your way home and eat it while you navigate the heavy traffic.  Finding the extra fries in the bottom of the bag will taste good as you rear end the car stopping suddenly in front of you.

In the short story Test, written by Theodore Thomas, the main character Robert Proctor took his driver’s test and failed. However, Robert Proctor was a capable driver subjected to an unfair test and hence, deserves his driver’s license. To start, Robert was not responsible for the collision. This is apparent in the quote, “The blue convertible suddenly swung out from behind the truck without warning.” As it can be seen, Robert was not given any warning or information that the blue convertible would move from its lane, which caused the collision. Due to Robert not being at fault for the collision, it cannot be said that he is a bad driver. To provide further evidence, the quotes “Robert Proctor was a good driver for so young a person.” and “Robert Proctor was too wise to slam on the brakes.” are testimonies to Robert’s

Copeland’s article is meant to inform parents of their effects on teen’s driving behaviors. Their actions behind the wheel let their children know what is okay to do and what is not. If parents are aware of this then it would help them try to set a good example. This academic journal is a reliable source that comes from the database Academic Search Elite, provided by school’s online database systems.

I had situation involving a car accident. I was not giving the correct directions (being mislead) it caused a accident, which left my car wrecked. I am a great driver I learned hands on which is the way I love to learn now a days. Because of the bad directions I learn to just ask the place I am going and find my way through GPS. I am avoiding any future possible situations by misguidance.

“You’re a rotten driver,” I protested. “Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn’t to drive at all” (58)

When asked about their driving habits, most individuals insist that they are excellent drivers. They may even cite how they always follow the speed limit, come to a complete halt at every stop sign and never forget to use their turn signal while merging. While all of these are great, and legally required, driving habits, it is important to know there is more to being a safe driver than just following the rules.

In the article, “Teenage Drivers? Be Very Afraid” (2016), Bruce Feiler, writer for the New York Times, insists parents to “get much more involved” in their teenager’s driving life and in the progress increase the chances of them driving more safely. Feiler conveys the idea of safer driving by juxtaposing a variety of parent involvement in a teenager’s life (“back off” versus “get more involved”), by providing statistics and evidence of possible perils (motor vehicle accidents), and by establishing certain rules that their child must follow (no use of phones). Using advice from doctors, the author emphasizes the importance of parent involvement in order to influence teenagers to bring driving violations to a halt; in fact, Feiler believes that

Driving health remains a point of contention amongst families and medical professionals because of the stigma surrounding it. In a study by Liddle et al. (2013), one son of a recently retired driver described the conversation he continued to play out in his head as he worked up the courage to initiate the driving cessation discussion with his father. Before suggesting driver cessation, the son said “I was just plucking up the courage to suggest to him that it was time to stop when he announced that he felt he should not [continue driving].” In today’s society, where speaking of driving health is someone taboo, this is often the first stage that an older driver’s caregiver will go through. The son described himself as a “white knuckled passenger,” holding along for the ride (Liddle et al., 2013). Caregivers can begin to see warning signs in the older driver’s capabilities on the road, but are hesitant to speak up. The literature out there isn’t readily accessible to families, leaving everyone unaware of how to incite the dialogue.

“Don’t do what I do” is something I began to hear a lot of when I learned how to drive. By the example my mother was setting, only one kind of mistake would warrant it. My mother would roll through stop signs and speed like it was nobody’s business. I wouldn’t hear a peep about it. Any time her phone came out on the road though, you could be sure there would be a “Don’t do what I do”. It wasn’t just my mother either. My father, and my grandparents constantly threw this line out. They knew that they shouldn’t do it, but they couldn’t help themselves, and that sends a worse message than condoning the use of a phone while driving. It was watching them make the same mistakes over and over again with little remorse that made me promise to never drive while distracted.

There are three types of drivers in this world: competent, overcautious, and reckless. After driving for many years in frustrating rush hour traffic, one might find there are three types of drivers, competent drivers who keep the flow going, over cautious drivers who cause slow and backed up traffic, and reckless drivers who weave in and out of traffic causing one near death experience after another. Trying to sort out what type of driver a person might be is an extremely challenging task. In a person's own mind, they think they are the aggressive type of driver, or the cautious type, but no one will ever admit that they are reckless kind. In most cases they’re too oblivious to these classifications and all other

When learning how to drive, most teenagers have a few blunders along the way. However, not many could say they have failed as drastically as I have at one particular driving lesson. Learning how to backup revealed itself to be a true challenge for me. Backing down the driveway, I mistakenly did not see the weed-eater that my father had left out after some yard work, and ended up running over it. But from there the bad situation gets worse, panicking from just running over the weed-eater, I sped forward and ended up bumping into the full trash can. In less than one minute, I had managed to run over the weed-eater and then into the trash can, which then spilled its contents. From that series of unfortunate events, I managed to learns a few lessons,

. I was on my way to a 10:30 class on route 29 in Gainesville, heading towards route 66 when I looked over I noticed a car was flipped over on its side, and there was not a cop in site. The first thing that came to my mind was to stop, but there were multiple people helping. However, I knew how traffic was going to be on 66 to get to Mason on time. I had to juggle the choices of stopping, be late to class or keep driving and arrive to class on time. If I missed the class I would miss out on important information needed to pass the class to complete my degree. If I did not have a class that day I would have stopped because I care about people’s well-being. The consequence approach to this decision is deciding to keep driving because it is my

I do not know how many times I have been driving down the road when someone does something stupid, ranging from pulling out in front of me or tailgating. More and more drivers enter the road every year and it seems as if less and less of them know how to drive.