Responsible Driving Behaviors
Improving and maintaining your behaviors and attitudes to driving are key characteristics to being a safe driver on today’s roads, bridges, and highways. It is important that each and every driver accept personal responsibility for their role in road safety. Becoming more aware will even work on improving our attitudes to create a more positive change for all our drivers.
We stress the following behavioral traits/attitudes to encourage safe responsible driving:
- Respect for others – don’t tailgate, allow others to merge and allow people to make mistakes.
- Awareness – use mirrors, stay aware of other vehicles around you and identify and react calmly to possible road conditions and hazards.
- Share – you don’t own the road.
- Nerve take driving for granted getting too comfortable – road conditions change constantly. Just because there was not a pothole in your lane yesterday does not mean it will not be there today. Always be alert to new hazards and conditions.
- Attitude – you can control the attitude of others driving through your attitude exhibiting responsible driving.
- Follow the all driving rules laws – do not assume others will.
