Congratulations on turning fifteen and a half years old! I bet you are excited as I was back when I was fifteen and a half. With earning my Driver’s License, I feel like a more independent (and less dependent) person than if I did not. Knowing this, I knew I had to endure a long tedious process to actually get my license. Obtaining my Driver’s License has provided me with three key components: the freedom, the responsibility, and the dedication. The freedom has provided me to go to places faster. For example, I like to go to the mall in New Philadelphia. I know for a fact that it would take over an hour close to two hours to walk to the mall. Now, if I would have my license the amount of time would be reduced immensely. With freedom, there …show more content…
At least, I think so because it sets up good things used in your future. Some examples of responsibility are cleaning up after ourselves, taking out the trash, making your bed, etc. This is especially true when driving! There are so many responsibilities a person has when driving a car and when not driving. It is your responsibility to maintain your car in working condition. There are endless ways of maintaining your car in order. Some of these include, but not limited to: oil changes, putting gas in, rotating your tires, checking your tire pressure, check fluid levels,etc. Besides maintaining your car, there is still a list of things you must do. Some of the these things include renewing your license, renewing your insurance, having up to date registration stickers, making sure all your passengers are buckled up, etc. Finally, never is worse than you doing all the right things and then someone in the car whether it be a friend or brother does something illegal. Some of the things would be drinking or drugs such as heroin, crack, marijuana, etc. With all that said, all of the responsibility would fall on your shoulders, not realizing what just happened to …show more content…
There was always times where I just wanted to throw in the towel and call it quits. However, I just knew that my persistence would eventually kick in! Also, I had to accept the fact I would not do so well at first. When I first drove a car, my nerves throughout my body were completely shocked through the roof. It was because I did not know how to do it since I had no previous driving experience. For some people, they like to drive four-wheelers or dirt bikes before driving a car, so they have some experience, but I am not that type of person at all and never will be. So, me and my dad went down to Buckeye Career Center one afternoon for me to practice driving for the very first time in my life. At first, he would go through the course to show me where I would go. The course included turning both left and right,parking into a space, reversing, and many more things. My dad would always say the same things to me: “Turn the wheel, Coast, Brake Earlier.” These are just some of things he stressed to me. Turning the wheel was a problem I had early on because I would always do the wrong technique. I would always turn for part of the way but not all the way. The next thing he would say to me would be is just coast. To be honest, I did not know that a car could do such a thing. Coasting to me seems like taking a little break from driving. Also, I did not know how far you could go when coasting a car. A big thing I learned from my
Each year numerous lives are lost due to careless and irrational driving. The disregard for safe driving has been a predicament to Queensland for years. For many years? police have relied heavily on speed cameras, breathe testing and heavy fines as a deterrent against unlawful drivers. Over the years fatality rates have increased, so Queensland Transport has composed a series of safe driving campaigns. On many occasions the transport department informs and advises the public about the importance of responsible driving. They propagate safe driving through the various channels of the media. Their safe driving campaign is now using effective propaganda aimed directly at speeding; drink driving and tired and reckless driving
Drunk Driving is defined as: Operating a motor vehicle while one 's blood alcohol content is above the legal limit set by statute, which supposedly is the level at which a person cannot drive safely. State statutes define the legal limit to be between .08 and .10 depending on what state you’re in. Every 51 minutes in America, someone is killed in a drunk driving crash(MADD). That equates to 27 people every day. Which comes to a total of at least 9,855 deaths in a year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 32% of fatal car crashes involve an intoxicated driver or pedestrian (MADD). As of right now, in society the total number of drunk driving accidents is slowly but surely increasing and if nothing is done about it, it’ll result in a tragic amount of deaths and injuries. Drunk drivers are extremely dangerous not just to oneself, but to society as well. That is why one serious solution to this societal epidemic is to create a portion of the driving test where drivers will be required to be at least ten beers deep and while drunk they must drive through a set of
The combination of driving an automobile after drinking a significant amount of alcohol has been recognized as a serious problem since the motor car was invented in the 1880s. By 1910, the law in the United States had already codified drunk driving as a misdemeanor offence. Prohibitionists used the danger created by mixing alcohol and driving as a key point in their argument in favor of the eighteenth amendment, as a result of which the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol was banned between 1920 and 1933. Apparently lessons were not learned and many decades later drunk driving has been called one of the most serious problems confronting America today” (Kinkade). This should not be a problem for any country as individuals should be able to control their drinking behavior.
Life on the Road It’s fair to say that life on the road is something most people do not desire, as a way to live out their days; but a young man named Chris McCandless believed it was necessary to avoid the venomous grips of society. McCandless goes as far as to venture out to the rest of the United States and even crossing borders to achieve his true destination, Alaska. He shows us living such a life can hold many unique and wonderful experiences.
For many years, drunk driving casualties have been viewed differently. Many believe that drunk driving laws are strict while others believe that it is too lenient. In this generations, where alcohol is cheap and very accessible many tends to abuse it. This people who abuse alcohol is known as drunk drivers because after taking three or four drinks they still believe that they are not drunk and goes back to the wheel of their vehicle without thinking of what will happen next. This drunk drivers are willing to risk their lives and the lives of others because they are ashamed or too big to call a family member or a designated drivers to take them home. If they are lucky and did not die on their way home. Then they create this dangerous cycle of
Nowadays, people usually go anywhere by their own car more than the public transport. There are many reasons that make they go by themselves; 1) The public transport is expensive. 2) They are always late. And 3) they are inadequate for everyone. So the demand to learn to drive and make a driver’s license are continuously increased. But it’s too complicated to do everything by themselves. Driving school is one of the best choice for this problem.
Driving under the influence is one of the most common and dangerous situations in which anyone can be or be placed. Drinking and driving is a serious offence that can cause someone to be physically harm or even killed. Not only are you putting yourself at risk but you are also risking the lives of passengers in the car as well as any other car and occupants sharing the road with you. Many people believe that increasing fines for drunk driving offenders will play a compelling role in cutting down the occurrences of driving under the influence. However, while harsher DUI laws will look effective on paper, they will not make a significant step in the fight against drunk driving. Although there is a law enforced for drinking and driving in the
The single most important accomplishment responsible for my transition from childhood to adulthood is receiving my driver’s license. I received my license during my sophomore year of highschool. The “training wheels” of my permit had been taken off and I was able to drive by myself without parental supervision. This accomplishment broadened my capacity for freedom, responsibility, and convenience to me and my family. I was finally able to go wherever I wanted whenever I wanted, within the confines of my mother’s permission.
Can you remember when you got your driver?s license? From what I can remember getting my license was one of the most exciting things in my life. Having your license means having more freedom. If I didn?t have my license my life would be very different. To get your license you need to take the class, pass the written test, take behind the wheel, and finally take your driving test.
Freedom is a wonderful gift. It is similar to a coin with two sides. Those of us with a driver's license understand these two concepts every time we get into a car. In your car, where you go, how fast you go, and what route you will take are all up to you. You are free to make those choices.
Graduated Licenses would help teenagers to drive more than raising the age limit. We still wan’t them to drive, don’t we? They should still have the freedom to drive to school or work. Not every teen gets in a crash, so why treat them like they all do? That is not fair to the ones who actually drive good and want to learn to be a better driver.
There are a lot of steps for one to obtain their driver’s license. Each step having to be complete to go on to the next one. It all starts with going to driver’s education, getting your temporary license, driving with parents to get experience, to taking you driver’s education test. It’s not easy to get your license but with determination, anything can be possible.
The issue about raising the minimum age for a driving license has been drastically pushed to the headlines due to the growing number of automobile accidents. Whether it would reduce or even prevent accidents or it will, simply do not do any differences is mainly the heart of this argument. The main reason for wanting to raise the basic driving age is that it has been proven that teenagers have caused the most number of accidents. The argument is a big decision for whether the minimum age for a diving license should or should not be raised because of the consequences of both sides.
In addition to teenagers gaining independence and freedom with a license, parents also gain more freedom as well. Teenagers who cannot drive rely heavily on parents, siblings, and other people to chauffeur them around. Not only does this cost more for the driver, ...
With my drivers’ license I could pick up my friends without my parents around, making the friend experience a whole lot better. I could go on dates without the embarrassment of my parents driving me. On any given day I could do anything I wanted because I could drive. I could feel the textures of the roads, smell the fresh air when my windows were down, see the beautiful terrain that I drove through and I could hear any type...