Zero Accidents

            Driving Under Pressure  1. Driving under pressure means inviting accidents. Do not take to driving. Stay back. 2. If in urgency: -- Hire a taxi -- Take by-roads -- Hire a chauffeur  -- Do not drive fast Remember: • No urgency can be more valuable than life and property.  • In fact, urgency lies in our attitude. In other words, an urgency may not be so urgent. Practically, most urgent situations are non-actionable. • Remain loyal to yourself. Loyalty to somebody or something at your own risk is a folly. • Wisdom is always primary. Understanding the pressure: ▪︎ Goal-achieving  ▪︎ Personal destination  ▪︎ Another person's destination  ▪︎ Under obligation or by force ▪︎ Find your interests

            Rights & Responsibilities "Rights without duties is useless; duties without rights is lame."   -- Jeremy Bentham "No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Rights and responsibilities are the two sides of the same coin."    -- G Edward Griffin  Remember: • Enjoyment of road rights without responsibilities is always fatal. • Driving is itself a responsibility. • It is always precautionary to drive. • Driving is an engaging act.

                                Experience  "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgments."                                                            -- Mark Twain Points to remember: 1. Do not forget your past mistakes.  2. Learn from your mistakes as well as from those of the others. 3. Mistakes occur in different situations and in different minds. 4. Don't ever think you are unerring.  5. If you have committed mistakes, you are extremely lucky to be alive now, for very first mistake can be fatal. An experienced driver is a lucky driver. 6. The road will not show you mercy because you are a new innocent driver. Accident is inevitable. Off-road practice, especially in open field or roads with almost no traffic i...

           Types of Road Accidents   

                            Driving Tips 1. A safe driver is a confident driver. 2. Get comfortable with the vehicle before driving it. 3. Stop worrying about what other drivers think. 4. Learn basic automotive mechanics.  5. Two skills to learn now: parallel parking and proper merging.  6. Distracted driving comes in many forms.  7. Look far down the road. 8. Safe driving means using all your sense. 9. Do not be overconfident.  10. Stay cautious if you are driving down an unknown road. Remember that diversions and speed-breakers are parts of a road. So are potholes, jerks, bumps etc.                                 Courtesy: Drive-Safely.net 

                               No Phone While   we are talking with somebody over phone, our mind focuses on invisible things, as our mind tends to judge the things for relevancy. Our mind moves about the context of communication and possibly the topic's supplementary issues. Depending upon the topic of communication, our consideration may involve the following issues -- 1) The person 2) The place 3) The time 4) The urgency of topic 5) Isolated or related subject 6) The surroundings 7) With or without company 8) Personal or official  9) The limitation  10) Explanation 1: You got a phone call about sudden death of a relative. Your mind will immediately visualize a big world of things and start working about the following possible things -- 1) The deceased 2) You role and responsibilities  3) The possibility of visiting immediately  4) The distance between you and the place of death 5)...

                                The Mind This chapter casts a light on the working of our mind and provides instructions  on how to use it to avoid road accidents.  "Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything is to be obliterated."           -- Jean Baudrillard, French Social Scientist Mind & Technology: The vehicles now have foolproof technology. They never disappoint you. They are immune to a sudden breakdown. They are easy to handle and carry sufficient security features. But technology cannot operate, master or control the driver's mind. Rather the driver has got in his hand the ability to decide the fate of the vehicle more than technology.  Human mind invents technology which can also be destroyed by the human handiwork.  Human mind is a glue stick:  -- Avoid being nostalgic  -- Avoid being imaginative ...