Practice Defensive Driving by Always Yielding
Many times we find ourselves in a situation where the other driver is driving erratically and not following the rules of the road. You could be theoretically correct in insisting and continuing forward, but you also could get hurt or dead while making your point. At the end of the day, we just want to get home in one piece more than be right but in two pieces.
Adopting a let-it-go attitude could be seen as submissive but when on the road, drivers need to assume a Zen like mentality and go for safety first….surely it’s better than to initiate a road rage incident!
Other times, we need to have the same attitude not toward another driver, but the surroundings we are faced with. How many times, either due to unfamiliar locations, confusing signage or unclear work-in-progress modifications, we are not sure which way to go? Yield anyway! In this circumstances, It’s better to take the extra time to make the right decision, rather than make the wrong decision and blame the confusing signs for the accident.
One place where indecision and being an over-achiever-yielder is not a good practice, is while entering a freeway. Here, if both the entering driver and the driver already on the freeway continue to yield to one another, an accident is almost guaranteed. Remember how to enter a freeway correctly and that the freeway driver cannot easily change lanes or reduce their speed because of ‘river’ of traffic around them.
We have also a pretty cool podcast for you to listen to at your leisure at our defensive driving YouTube channel
