Fashion over Safety: Driving with the wrong shoes.

We ladies love to look good all the time. Whether we have just woken up or going to the shop around the corner, looking good is not an option but a priority. Although driving in heels may make you a classy driver, it could pose a danger to you and affect your driving ability. How so?

Research shows that wearing inappropriate shoes for driving can reduce the amount of control you have over a vehicle's foot pedals causing you to lose control of the car in turn causing an accident. Many motoring experts say this is a serious safety faux pas.

Heels are dangerous to wear because while driving  you're not getting a good feel of the pedal and your feet /shoe might get stuck under the pedals or slip off.

Flip flops usually don't have support around the heel which makes them difficult to keep on and unsafe to wear when driving as they may also slip off resulting in a terrible loss of control.

I know what you thinking, yes you may have been driving with heels or flops for years and nothing has happened. But think about what will happen if  your car breaks down and you need to walk a distnace to get help, you will need a reliable comfortable pair of shoes to get you there as heels won't do the work. Also by losing control of your car, not only affects you but other road users as you could end up colliding with them. One can't predict when an accident may occur, it is advisable that you are cautious in terms of wearing shoes that will make driving safer and comfortable.

A rubber soled flat shoe that allows for easy movement and has a solid grip on the pedal should do the trick and help you avoid being in an unsafe situation

Early invention and use of windshiled wipers

I just found out that a very crucial part of a car was invented by a women, and that in a time when the motoring industry primarily targeted the male driver and focused on speed, revs, engine size, rims and exhaust pipes. Women were viewed as too timid and fragile to participate in strenuous activity or operate complex machinery. 

While she was in a trolley car  in New York City in the winter of 1903 , Mary Anderson observed that the motorman drove with his front window open due to difficulty of keeping the windshiled clear of falling sleet. After that visit when she went back to Alabama, she hired a designer to make  a hand operated device that would keep the windshield clear, and had a local company produce a working model.

In 1903 she was granted a 17-year patent for a windshield wipe. The device consisited of a lever with a rubber blade and could be operated from inside a vehicle to cause the spring-loaded arm to move back and forth across the windshield. Similar devices had been made earlier but Anderson's was the first to be effective, since before that, people smeared a mixture of onions and carrots on windshields to repel water.

The roads become wet, slick and slipper during rain, but the idea that you cannot see in front of you is reason to be concerned. As your visibility begins to be affected, your windshield wipers have to be engaged and turned up to higher speed.

Windshiled wipers are important and are the easiest to overlook when it comes to car safety. It is said that chances of getting involved in a accident automatically increase when it rains. So by overlooking what you can control, you are putting your life in danger. 

The first step in increasing safety is to regularly clean the windshield and the wipers. Although overtime and under certain conditions those windshield wipers will become less effective you can always return your windshield wipers to an earlier state of efficiency. Invest in a cleaning solvent that contains ingredients specifically designed to remove grease and silicone that has accumulated on the windshield.


Windshield wipers are the definitive security features of a vehicle and it is very important that every vehicle has these.