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Photo by flamedIt happens everyday.
You're driving along minding your own business at a leisurely (and legal) rate when some 3000 lbs. of metal terrorist comes up to your bumper forcing you to get out of their way for your own life.
Motor vehicles accidents account for more deaths than all natural disasters combined. In fact in the United States your chances of being injured in an motor vehicle accident is better than one in a thousand, in any one year. If you are a male, than you are twice as likely to die in a motor vehicle accident than if you are a female. Yet, if you are a female you are slightly more likely to be injured. The ages of 16 and 24 are the most dangerous for both sexes. Between the ages of 16 and 64 alcohol figures into over 20% of all fatal accidents, and between the ages of 21 and 44 almost 50% of all fatalities. And for all of you motorcycle lovers out there, you are ten times more likely to die driving a motor cycle than if you are driving any other motor vehicle.
For those of you who want to be not only safer, but feel less agitation from other drivers on the road, I have a few helpful suggestions that will work wonders for your driving experience, and maybe also save your life.
1.Do the speed limit.
I know it sounds simplistic, but it works wonderfully well. If the speed limit is posted at 50 m.p.h., then do exactly 50 m.p.h., and not a knot faster or slower, and watch what happens.
Within 120 seconds you will be the only one in close proximity to no other traffic, and everyone will either be well ahead of you or well behind you, but rarely if ever next to you.
Why you may be asking?
Its because everyone knows the speeding tickets don't start getting handed out like candy until roughly 8 mph over the limit.
2. Lose the rear view mirror.
That is only if you have both passenger and driver side mirrors on your vehicle.
Why?
Again, there is nothing more stressful that looking into the center mirror and seeing someone on your cars bumper.
If you can't see them tailgating you then as far as I'm concerned they are not there, so let them go off and have their accident somewhere else.
It is the old "out of sight out of mind" technique, and it work marvelously well so fold the mirror up and relax. When you see someone whizzing around you you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you never saw them on your bumper.
3. Don't look at the other drivers.
What's that you say, and how is that possible?
The answer is that by not looking at other drivers faces, you isolate yourself to the driving experience, and tend to focus much better.
I have adhered to all three steps for a number of years now, and they have yet to fail at what they set out to accomplish. Hopefully they will make your driving experience a safer and happier one.
You're driving along minding your own business at a leisurely (and legal) rate when some 3000 lbs. of metal terrorist comes up to your bumper forcing you to get out of their way for your own life.
Motor vehicles accidents account for more deaths than all natural disasters combined. In fact in the United States your chances of being injured in an motor vehicle accident is better than one in a thousand, in any one year. If you are a male, than you are twice as likely to die in a motor vehicle accident than if you are a female. Yet, if you are a female you are slightly more likely to be injured. The ages of 16 and 24 are the most dangerous for both sexes. Between the ages of 16 and 64 alcohol figures into over 20% of all fatal accidents, and between the ages of 21 and 44 almost 50% of all fatalities. And for all of you motorcycle lovers out there, you are ten times more likely to die driving a motor cycle than if you are driving any other motor vehicle.
For those of you who want to be not only safer, but feel less agitation from other drivers on the road, I have a few helpful suggestions that will work wonders for your driving experience, and maybe also save your life.
1.Do the speed limit.I know it sounds simplistic, but it works wonderfully well. If the speed limit is posted at 50 m.p.h., then do exactly 50 m.p.h., and not a knot faster or slower, and watch what happens.
Within 120 seconds you will be the only one in close proximity to no other traffic, and everyone will either be well ahead of you or well behind you, but rarely if ever next to you.
Why you may be asking?
Its because everyone knows the speeding tickets don't start getting handed out like candy until roughly 8 mph over the limit.
2. Lose the rear view mirror.That is only if you have both passenger and driver side mirrors on your vehicle.
Why?
Again, there is nothing more stressful that looking into the center mirror and seeing someone on your cars bumper.
If you can't see them tailgating you then as far as I'm concerned they are not there, so let them go off and have their accident somewhere else.
It is the old "out of sight out of mind" technique, and it work marvelously well so fold the mirror up and relax. When you see someone whizzing around you you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you never saw them on your bumper.
3. Don't look at the other drivers.What's that you say, and how is that possible?
The answer is that by not looking at other drivers faces, you isolate yourself to the driving experience, and tend to focus much better.
I have adhered to all three steps for a number of years now, and they have yet to fail at what they set out to accomplish. Hopefully they will make your driving experience a safer and happier one.
Often times I drive in bemusement as I see tensed up drivers racing to get ahead of someone , many times trying to beat the next green light in vain.
Not only are they increasing their cost per mile averages on their vehicle, but they fail to take into account that there will always be someone in front of them.
Not only are they increasing their cost per mile averages on their vehicle, but they fail to take into account that there will always be someone in front of them.
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