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Sharing the Road with Immature Drivers One aspect of driving is that you are forced to share the road with immature drivers. For example, I leave my work around 11:30 on the weekends. This is normally not a problem. The roads are usually clear due to the time of night, and I just drive home as normal. However, there have been times that immature drivers such as teens or younger college students will be out trying to get to some party. Normally this wouldn’t bother me, but on some occasions when I’m driving home I have difficulties that I have to face.
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These difficulties can occur when I’m driving at a safe speed, and some immature drivers are behind me, and instead of just switching to another land decide to drive as close to the back of my car as they can. The immature driver believes that I will speed just, so that they can go faster in this lane, but this is not the case. With that said the young driver usually ends up switching to the lane next to me, and yelling some inappropriate phrase. This ends up angering me, and tempts me to do something that isn’t wise, but fortunately, I have matured enough to not stoop to such a level. With all this said I would like to educate on the difficulties that immature drivers force mature safe driving members of society to go through, and the restrictions that society have placed on immature driver such as teenagers in order to combat this epidemic.
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Immature Drivers Getting Their Permit Waiting to get your permit can be an exciting time for young drivers. The first thing is for you to get your provisional permit before you do anything else. A license is labeled provisional if the person is under the age of 18. The provisional license carries more restrictions than a normal license that a person that is 18 and over would have.
Immature Drivers Getting Their License Unfortunately immature drivers are allowed to change their driving permit into a driving license by the time they are 16 as long as they have met the driving and classroom Defensivedrivingfortworth1.com
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requirements. Also, you must have held your permit in the same state for at least one year. Younger teenage drivers must also complete a driver’s education class also referred to as Drivers Ed. The final requirement is to have 50 hours of completed practice time with an adult that is twenty-five years of age or older. There must also be six hours of completed professional driver training by selecting one of many Texas Driving Schools. The adult must sign off and log all fifty hours of time and then of those fifty hours must be done during the night.
Restrictions on Immature Drivers A young driver with a provisional driver’s license has a couple of restrictions. First restriction is you are not allowed to drive between midnight and five in the morning. The Defensivedrivingfortworth1.com
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main reason behind this restriction is because young drivers are considered more dangerous, so it is best to not let them drive late at night to protect other drivers. Only family members are allowed to ride in the vehicle during the first six months of your provisional license. After the first 6 months has passed you are allowed one passenger, who is not a family member, to ride in the vehicle you are driving. Once you have had your license for one year you are allowed up to three passengers, who are under the age of twenty-one and who are not family members to ride in the vehicle you are driving.
In conclusion drivers are better informed on the hazards that immature drivers cause on the roadway, but also the restrictions that are
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placed on them in hopes to make them more mature.
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