Improving the Education of Teenage Drivers

Considering that the lives of every driver are at risk each day, improving the education of teenage drivers is critical. While the ability of drivers can vary throughout all age groups, teenagers have certainly prompted many car accidents, often resulting in fatalities. Whether it’s due to aggressiveness or poor decision making, their inexperience on the road creates a much greater risk for these incidents to occur. Through the years there has been much debate about the driving ability of teenagers, which is usually caused by poor education within the classroom itself; therefore decreasing the safety of all drivers on the road. Increasing the driving hours with your instructor and legal guardian will help solve this dilemma.

The difficulty of a driver’s education class can vary quite drastically throughout schools, which will in turn cause some students to receive less than sufficient instruction. Similarly, in what is referred to as a “blow off” class, students don’t always pay complete attention during their class. Speaking from my personal experience, I had a very good Drivers Ed teacher, however the class was very laid back and many students didn’t take much of the class seriously. Driving can be very dangerous and should be taken as serious matter at all times. Yet, some teachers accept the fact that not all students will listen in class. In other cases, some classes might have a poor instructor. At that point the education of the student falls in the hands of their legal guardian. When a student doesn’t get the proper instruction in the class room, they will then only learn while out on the road. In addition, these classes are often only implemented over short period’s times, which will certainly not bode well for the develo...

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...o take any possible measures to prevent fatal accidents. In doing so, improving the education and experience of these young drivers will certainly reduce traffic fatalities. Whether it’s making the Drivers Ed courses more useful as well as instructional, raising the required amount of supervised driving hours with ones permit, or even demanding more spot checks for these new drivers, all of these resolutions are undoubtedly worth-while. Not a single person in this world wants a loved one’s life to be cut short due to a driver attempting to learn through experience.

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