What's the most dangerous thing you can do while driving?
Texting while driving is not an action with no consequences. Not only can you receive a ticket or fine, but you could also lose your life or end the lives of others. Unfortunately, texting and driving leads to 1.6 million car accidents a year.
Distracted Driving – Being distracted behind the wheel is something that you should always try to avoid. Unfortunately, people do some crazy things while driving. Some people try to put on makeup while driving, some try to get dressed while driving, and others, many others, try to talk or text while driving.
Dangerous driving habits such as texting, drinking, speeding, or driving while stressed and tired are common factors in traffic accidents and fatalities. Keep you and your family safer by avoiding these bad habits.
Sending a text message, talking on a cell phone, using a navigation system, and eating while driving are a few examples of distracted driving. Any of these distractions can endanger you, your passengers, and others on the road.
In addition, the study also noted that other related risky behaviors include sudden acceleration, hard braking, and lane drifting - each elevating the likelihood that an accident may occur.
1. A Bad Battery. If you're having trouble starting your car (and it may not be because the weather's 20 below zero) and your car's clock and radio presets frequently get wiped out, you may have battery problems that could lead to a dead silent engine.
If you do any of the following: Driving aggressively, tailgating, failing to signal, veering out of your lane, speeding, riding your brakes, making sudden stops and starts, bad parallel parking, swerving in and out of traffic.
Survey respondents said that texting while driving is considered the most egregious sin of all, with 93.7% in agreement. Rounding out the top 5 most annoying driving habits: tailgating (92.5%), not checking blind spots (91.5%), road rage (91.3%), and not using turn signals when changing lanes (90.2%).
The other top annoying driving habits included, Not being courteous to other drivers, sudden braking, middle-lane hogging, tailgating, last minute lane mergers/lane switchers, bad parking and speeding.
There is one rule that the Department of Motor Vehicles recommends all motorists do to avoid collisions with such objects. It advises that drivers should scan the road at least 12 seconds ahead to avoid potential trouble spots and to identify possible road hazards.
2. You may have heard the term "10 and 2 driving". This refers to the position in which you should hold your hands on the steering wheel (it is most often described in terms of how the placement of your hands relates to numbers on a clock).
