Stop Risking My Life When You Drive

Driving is hazardous to your health no matter how you look at it, traveling at speeds faster than we were ever meant to go. Think what people just 100 years ago would say if they saw the cars we have now…Amazing! I am not talking about cars equipped with superchargers, turbochargers and nitro’d out race cars no I am talking about your Honda. For thousands of years humans have gotten by with foot travel known as walking or running only recently have people begun to drive. This mode of transport is brand new in the great scheme of things and still many people don’t take it seriously.

Everyday modern humans do things that would be considered to be magic or the work of a higher power. Imagine how someone would have reacted to your 50” LED TV 200 years ago, they would have called you a witch and burned you for summoning demons. Cars are a device that has been designed to move people from one place to another more quickly than horseback and the car has revolutionized the human race.

There are a few key factors that should be followed when driving a car, the first and certainly not least important is to pay attention. Today on the freeway there was a woman in an Audi driving at 55 – 60 MPH and had her laptop mounted on the steering wheel. This is not only illegal but so stupid it cannot be over exaggerated how dumb and dangerous this is. There is a ban on cell phone use in cars but this just takes the cake for distracted driving, using a laptop while driving…sheesh. Another failure that people make is failing to realize what on-ramps and off-ramps are. These stretches of road are here for accelerating to highway speeds and slowing from them. In other words you can exit the highway without braking in traffic and causing a slowdown.  On ramps, even the ones in Cali with lights on them are meant to give the driver a chance to get to highway speed so they can merge. Too many people ignore this and cause accidents or congestion just because they failed to use the provided facilities correctly. One thing to remember is that roads and highways are government property not yours so follow the rules.