Driving is hazardous to your health no matter how you lookat it, traveling at speeds faster than we were ever meant to go. Think whatpeople just 100 years ago would say if they saw the cars we have now…Amazing! Iam not talking about cars equipped with superchargers, turbochargers and nitro’d out race carsno I am talking about your Honda. For thousands of years humans have gotten bywith foot travel known as walking or running only recently have people begun todrive. This mode of transport is brand new in the great scheme of things andstill many people don’t take it seriously.
Everyday modern humans do things that would be considered tobe magic or the work of a higher power. Imagine how someone would have reactedto your 50” LED TV 200 years ago, they would have called you a witch and burnedyou for summoning demons. Cars are a device that has been designed to movepeople from one place to another more quickly than horseback and the car has revolutionizedthe human race.
There are a few key factors that should be followed whendriving 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 andhad her laptop mounted on the steering wheel. This is not only illegal but sostupid it cannot be over exaggerated how dumb and dangerous this is. There is aban on cell phone use in cars but this just takes the cake for distracteddriving, using a laptop while driving…sheesh. Another failure that people makeis failing to realize what on-ramps and off-ramps are. These stretches of roadare here for accelerating to highway speeds and slowing from them. In otherwords you can exit the highway without braking in traffic and causing a slowdown. On ramps, even the ones in Cali withlights on them are meant to give the driver a chance to get to highway speed sothey can merge. Too many people ignore this and cause accidents or congestionjust because they failed to use the provided facilities correctly. One thing toremember is that roads and highways are government property not yours so followthe rules.
