TheFoX
Active Member
To condense my own feelings about driving, and the responsibility the driver should have for his own welfare, of his passengers, and of other road users, including pedestrians on the pavement, which is still part of the road, I stand by a simple mandate.
Do unto others as you would expect to be done unto you. Or put another way, treats others as you would want to be treated.
So, if I need to use hands free, it is to notify my family that I am going to be late. Pure and simple, and very short and to the point. My conversations last no longer than 10 or 20 seconds, and is usually because I am held up in traffic. Any longer conversations require me to pull over and make a safe conversation.
Driving with compassion also means that I will allow traffic from side roads to pull on to the main carriageway without me trying to race them, or allowing a vehicle overtaking to safely pull in in front of me, without me trying to prove a point. If someone desperately wants to overtake me, let them.
I find it far less stressful simply driving with the flow, rather than trying to swim up current, so to speak. If the traffic is moving slowly, flow with it, instead of trying to fight it. Let the accidents happen to other people, rather than cause them yourself.
Knighterrant his hit the nail on the head when he says too many people are more concerned about how their driving will affect them, rather than how their driving will affect others. Too many people are self obsessed, not realising that they have a duty to others as well as themselves.
Last year, I almost lost my mother in a car accident that was caused by a seventeen year old girl who literally did NOT look when pulling out of a side road. At the police interview her only concern was herself, and how 'we were not there' when she had looked. Such a selfish attitude, especially as she almost ended the life of a 70 year old woman through one simple foolish act.
People need to take ownership of their actions. If you do wrong, you take the rap, and not try to pass the buck. Too many people have too many excuses for why they did wrong, without so much as a 'Sorry'.
Do unto others as you would expect to be done unto you. Or put another way, treats others as you would want to be treated.
So, if I need to use hands free, it is to notify my family that I am going to be late. Pure and simple, and very short and to the point. My conversations last no longer than 10 or 20 seconds, and is usually because I am held up in traffic. Any longer conversations require me to pull over and make a safe conversation.
Driving with compassion also means that I will allow traffic from side roads to pull on to the main carriageway without me trying to race them, or allowing a vehicle overtaking to safely pull in in front of me, without me trying to prove a point. If someone desperately wants to overtake me, let them.
I find it far less stressful simply driving with the flow, rather than trying to swim up current, so to speak. If the traffic is moving slowly, flow with it, instead of trying to fight it. Let the accidents happen to other people, rather than cause them yourself.
Knighterrant his hit the nail on the head when he says too many people are more concerned about how their driving will affect them, rather than how their driving will affect others. Too many people are self obsessed, not realising that they have a duty to others as well as themselves.
Last year, I almost lost my mother in a car accident that was caused by a seventeen year old girl who literally did NOT look when pulling out of a side road. At the police interview her only concern was herself, and how 'we were not there' when she had looked. Such a selfish attitude, especially as she almost ended the life of a 70 year old woman through one simple foolish act.
People need to take ownership of their actions. If you do wrong, you take the rap, and not try to pass the buck. Too many people have too many excuses for why they did wrong, without so much as a 'Sorry'.
