Road Rage
Is your driving experience pleasurable? Or do you dread taking to the road? Either way at some point you must get frustrated with other drivers. Everyone does. Be it lack of use of indicators or individuals who are always in a hurry, have no lane discipline and no contemplation of speed limits? If we stop the negative attitudes to driving and produce disciplined drivers we can make driving more enjoyable, and stop delinquent driving. We can finally enjoy our time free of annoyance or antagonism.
The lack of order and courtesy on our roads is breeding a generation of aggressive, inconsiderate motorists; they don’t have any respect for other drivers, and expect us to know where they are going. The longer this goes on the worse it …show more content…
The latest update to Facebook, the hottest gossip in the ‘Twitter-verse’ or the hot-off-the-press new Instagram is not worth ruining someone’s life for – distracted drivers are a dangerous and fatal flaw in our modern society. A zero-tolerance lifestyle desperately needs to begin. We cannot live in a world where a piece of plastic out-weighs the value of someone’s future.
And gadgets are not the only distraction on our roads at the moment drinkers can get away with having 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood – this is not acceptable at all, as even just a tiny amount of alcohol can impair sight. If the road can’t be seen, how can it be safely driven on? Not to mention the processing of information is adversely affected and muscular control becomes difficult. Your life depends upon the messages sent to your brain alcohol damages these messages meaning reckless decisions are produced - these can, and do, turn fatal. Alcohol is a bane to our roads. And not only that, drug driving is an ‘emerging trend that is quickly becoming more prevalent than drink driving’ (Police Sergeant Paul Mostyn), drugs have a very similar effect to alcohol – and can sometimes be worse – this is why we NEED to adopt a no tolerance procedure. It will save …show more content…
This would target foreign drivers on our roads and driving in foreign countries as this could lead to less collisions and confusion when driving in unfamiliar territories. The change would also make car manufacture easier and cheaper, as there would be no need for two types of cars to be built. Mr Heydecker of University College – the Department for Transport Studies – agrees and he says that, "If cars were all manufactured the same way, it would reduce the cost of design and improve the quality of vehicles." However (former) Police Sergeant Paul Mostyn of the Transport and Traffic Command in the Metropolitan Police disagrees and says, “No I don’t think this is worthwhile or viable… The sheer amount of infrastructure that would need to be changed would preclude it from ever happening.” I personally agree and do not see any benefit of this and I do not think it would stop aggression on our
Is your driving experience pleasurable? Or do you dread taking to the road? Either way at some point you must get frustrated with other drivers. Everyone does. Be it lack of use of indicators or individuals who are always in a hurry, have no lane discipline and no contemplation of speed limits? If we stop the negative attitudes to driving and produce disciplined drivers we can make driving more enjoyable, and stop delinquent driving. We can finally enjoy our time free of annoyance or antagonism.
The lack of order and courtesy on our roads is breeding a generation of aggressive, inconsiderate motorists; they don’t have any respect for other drivers, and expect us to know where they are going. The longer this goes on the worse it …show more content…
The latest update to Facebook, the hottest gossip in the ‘Twitter-verse’ or the hot-off-the-press new Instagram is not worth ruining someone’s life for – distracted drivers are a dangerous and fatal flaw in our modern society. A zero-tolerance lifestyle desperately needs to begin. We cannot live in a world where a piece of plastic out-weighs the value of someone’s future.
And gadgets are not the only distraction on our roads at the moment drinkers can get away with having 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood – this is not acceptable at all, as even just a tiny amount of alcohol can impair sight. If the road can’t be seen, how can it be safely driven on? Not to mention the processing of information is adversely affected and muscular control becomes difficult. Your life depends upon the messages sent to your brain alcohol damages these messages meaning reckless decisions are produced - these can, and do, turn fatal. Alcohol is a bane to our roads. And not only that, drug driving is an ‘emerging trend that is quickly becoming more prevalent than drink driving’ (Police Sergeant Paul Mostyn), drugs have a very similar effect to alcohol – and can sometimes be worse – this is why we NEED to adopt a no tolerance procedure. It will save …show more content…
This would target foreign drivers on our roads and driving in foreign countries as this could lead to less collisions and confusion when driving in unfamiliar territories. The change would also make car manufacture easier and cheaper, as there would be no need for two types of cars to be built. Mr Heydecker of University College – the Department for Transport Studies – agrees and he says that, "If cars were all manufactured the same way, it would reduce the cost of design and improve the quality of vehicles." However (former) Police Sergeant Paul Mostyn of the Transport and Traffic Command in the Metropolitan Police disagrees and says, “No I don’t think this is worthwhile or viable… The sheer amount of infrastructure that would need to be changed would preclude it from ever happening.” I personally agree and do not see any benefit of this and I do not think it would stop aggression on our