The book takes a personal and detailed look into what can happen if you drive your car like it’s a social event. Everybody knows when they’ve made a mistake while driving. The more important thing to learn is “What do I need to know AND do to not have an accident?”.
The personal events recounted are detailed and explicit. You can actually hear the sirens and feel the pain of the author’s family’s losses. To not learn from these events is an unnecessary adventure into pain and anguish.
The most important take away from the book is that you MUST live with the results of an incorrect decision behind the steering wheel of your automobile. These consequences will always involve other family members and even people that you don’t know. You do not get “do overs” is something that must be integrated into every person’s mind as the key is inserted into the ignition of an automobile in preparation for a short or long trip.
The exercise of exploring your own automobile insurance and knowing what you have in place before an accident can save you literally thousands and thousands of dollars. The savings that you will have by properly understanding your insurance and making sure what’s in place is what’s needed will offset the price of the book thousands of times over. However, not knowing what protection you have is not a valid excuse to protect your assets in the event of an incorrect snap decision that turns out to be your fault. You don’t get do overs is true here as well.
Finally there is a personal side to the book that includes how you deal with the other drivers on the road. Road rage is not a term of endearment and whenever you show it to others you often become the “fool” as far as everyone else is concerned.
Driving can result in safely arriving at your intended location or it can result a permanent negative change in the rest of your, and possibly many others, lives. The choice is always yours and “do overs” are not allowed!
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How's My Driving?: Why Every Other Driver Doesn't Seem to Have A Clue
This non-fiction work propounds the thesis that one of the major contributors to the inordinate amount of car crashes Americans endure each year is the sense of overconfidence that most American drivers bring to our roads. It argues that most drivers would benefit immensely from examining their own driving practices thoroughly and from incorporating more risk-averse habits rather than operating with the illusion of invincibility.
It presents various theorems that delineate the most common errors and catalysts behind car crashes, further explaining how drivers can often circumvent such pitfalls by avoiding distractions on the road, using their turn signals and headlights as intended, and making full use of all of the safety features that modern cars are now equipped with.