This past week has made me wonder if they started handing out driver's licenses without the need of taking a class to LEARN how to drive. For those of you who haven't here are a couple of pointers and for those of you who have, let this be a refresher course.
1. Turning signals have been around for a while, all you have to do is push it up or down to signal which way you are going when changing lanes or turning.
2. Following one foot behind my car is NOT going to make me go any faster. I'm sorry but many of us choose to follow traffic laws, especially when traveling with a 4 month old baby in the car. If you would like to go faster you may go around me in the other lane.
3. Learn what the right of way is. This week I was driving one a two way street and a car was turning onto the street to go in the opposite direction than I, he was on a side road with a yield. Luckily, I saw this car in my peripheral vision and felt I should slow down a little, no sooner did I do that but the car cut in front of me, missing me by a foot and crossing me perpendicular into the other lane. SERIOUSLY?!
4. If the light is going from yellow to red for the car in front of you, you don't get to go...can we say accident?
These are just a few of the highlights to my week of driving with thousands of 20-70 year old novices. I don't like the Utah stereotype for bad driving, so PLEASE don't make it true.
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