subject: Knowing Your Driving Weaknesses [print this page] Add to the problem that there are more drivers out there crowding the roadways than ever before, and suddenly you've got a real problem on your hands. But is bad driving inherent or is it something that is learned over time? Most would argue the latter, and I would have to agree.
When we are young, we sometimes marvel at the way in which other people drive cars. This feeling is only intensified as we eventually reach an age of maturity that allows us to climb behind the wheel of a vehicle for the very first time. However, we must always remind ourselves that driving is a privilege and not a right. Too often, people forget this sentiment as they go careening down residential streets at speeds that would make you shudder to think of what would happen if there were a child in the street. Driving weaknesses do not necessarily equate to bad driving. However, poor driving and weaknesses while driving seem to go hand in hand. For instance, someone who has always struggled with parallel parking may often wind up bumping the vehicles around them or trying to perform some magnificent maneuver despite the fact that they have now blocked traffic going in two directions.
The good news is that driving weaknesses can be worked on so that you can eventually get better at them and get over whatever it was that was holding you back. For example, if you know that you are bad at parallel parking, keep doing it until you do it right. Believe it or not, there is an actual science to parallel parking and once you master it, there isn't a single space that you won't be able to parallel park your vehicle into. That being said, you also want to make sure that your lack of good driving doesn't impede other drivers and/or pedestrians around you. I will never forget driving to piano lessons with my mother when we suddenly found ourselves stuck behind a woman who would apply her brakes ever other second (literally). From a distance, we thought that there was something actually wrong with her vehicle. However, once we got closer, we could tell that she was just a really, really nervous driver. I'm not sure what could have been done to prevent that situation except that my mother made sure to keep a nice, long and safe distance in between the woman's vehicle and ours What this woman failed to realize was that her driving or lack of driving was actually causing a series of near accidents behind her because while my mother slowed down to put enough distance between this woman and ourselves, other drives came in between our vehicles only to realize that the woman in front of them seemed to be crazy.
