Defensive Driving 101 -- Courtesy Is The Antidote To Offensive Driving

In order to be nice to a fellow driver, we first have to be aware of them… to acknowledge them… isn’t that true? The dictionary uses the phrase “consideration toward others” to depict courtesy.

Let’s muse this for a moment, shall we? The more you go on toward being an expert driver, the easier it is to discover that the common denominator to defensive driving is your sense of what’s transpiring outside your vehicle.

Most all the issues, less one, that can transform one into an aggressive driver go around events inside the car. Phone calls, talking to passengers, and writing email, listening to music… all this is what distracts you from paying attention.

Another part is your mind-set. Chew over it, if you are exasperated about something, a car is not the best spot to be and you should be self-aware enough to adapt your driving behavior till you simmer down, or not drive at all. Your measure should always be courtesy.

If you are nice then a bunch of good things are transpiring in that computer in your head. When you are courteous, you are focusing on what’s outside your car. You are also paying attention to fellow drivers' demands, which is as decent as it gets. There are heaps of occasions on the average journey around town to be nice to others. They may not constantly notice your respect, but they usually do. In my long experience those little favors you donate to complete strangers usually get returned back to you by other complete strangers as if by white magic… kind of cool actually. You all of a sudden discover fellow drivers allowing you into tight spots when before they behaved like jerks… white magic I say to you.

If you will just risk to be as nice as possible to fellow drivers for five days, I foretell you will be stunned. It actually switches your whole view on driving while at the same time undoubtedly identifying you as a genuine jimdandy. Who amongst us doesn’t desire to be a jimdandy?

What ends up transpiring, is that you before long find yourself seeking chances to cut the fellow driver some slack, which makes you feeling good about yourself. It also focuses you… pay attention here… focuses you beyond the bubble in your car. You are focusing on what’s transpiring out there much more, when you risk to be nice to fellow drivers.

This little exercise in human relations 101 can catapult you from an average driver to a safe one in no time flat. So… you if you seek to be an expert driver, it’s easy… just give the fellow driver a break. Even if they don’t recognize it, you will be a righteous person and a better driver for doing it.

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Joshua Nestor is a staff writer for real life defensive driving information website Fun and Safe Driving. Among other things, site features encyclopedia, forums, defensive driving videos, and mapquest driving directions.

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