Too many drivers are rude, selfish and discourteous. As a driver education instructor, I’m especially concerned by drivers’ attitudes and actions toward driver education cars and their inexperienced drivers.

I am tired of the impatient and rude behaviors my students receive. I cannot understand the mental ineptitude of those who honk and gesture at inexperienced but learning youthful drivers trying to learn safe-driving techniques.

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Why is it an attack on your manhood to let a student driver change lanes in front of you? Instead, you deliberately accelerate to stop the lane change.

Students in driver education vehicles are constantly honked at for stopping properly, being careful or going the speed limit. The glares and gestures from "adult" drivers speeding around are stressful to students who wonder what they did wrong.

Ironically, the "experienced" rushing drivers are talking, texting, cellphone surfing, shaving, putting on makeup or stuffing a breakfast sandwich — a greater safety risk than the student driver doing his best to be safe and obey the law.

Drivers, please treat others with courtesy and respect. Most of all, give the student driver a "brake," eliminate impatience and allow her to learn and witness safer driving methods.

Kerry A. Downs Orem