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| Driver's ed classes these days... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 10 2011, 12:43 PM (289 Views) | |
| Horace | Dec 10 2011, 12:43 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Apparently in my neice's driver's ed class, they have to write a letter to their best friend's parents explaining to them that they killed their daughter by driving recklessly. Back in my day they put the fear in you by showing gruesome pictures of crashes. Guess in a few generations they'll strap the kids into virtual reality chambers and have them drive over a stroller, after which the wailing parents scream at them for murdering their child for 30 minutes. They'll have to clamp their eyelids open too like in Clockwork Orange. |
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| Luke's Dad | Dec 10 2011, 12:51 PM Post #2 |
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My drivers ed teacher told me that most accidents happen within five miles of my home. I replied that since most drivers within 5 miles of my home were taught by him, then he must really suck. |
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| Horace | Dec 10 2011, 12:58 PM Post #3 |
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that's awesome.I was told that same statistic and my immediate thought was that most driving occurs within 5 miles of the home, so the statistic is meaningless. I've always been a total buzzkill like that. |
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| Qaanaaq-Liaaq | Dec 10 2011, 02:13 PM Post #4 |
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Speaking of high school driver's ed courses these days... I wonder how many teach driving with a stick shift car? Not many I bet. |
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| George K | Dec 10 2011, 02:17 PM Post #5 |
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None of my kids were taught. As a matter of fact, neither was I (not in driver's ed, at least). My Dad taught me on his Volvo - I never mastered it, though I could do it if necessary (as when I rented a truck in 1980 to move to our first house). |
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| Optimistic | Dec 10 2011, 03:11 PM Post #6 |
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I canīt imagine that any do. How could it be worth the hassle? Those that want or need to learn just do so on their own. |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 10 2011, 04:31 PM Post #7 |
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If you take your test in the UK in an automatic, you're not allowed to drive a manual. Having said that, I'd never driven an automatic before I came to Canada. I'm not even sure whether I'd even been in one. |
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| Optimistic | Dec 10 2011, 04:52 PM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Thankfully thatīs not the case in the good olī USofA
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| John D'Oh | Dec 10 2011, 05:03 PM Post #9 |
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Something that interferes that much with cell phone use is unlikely to catch on anyway. |
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| Qaanaaq-Liaaq | Dec 10 2011, 06:35 PM Post #10 |
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At Santa Monica high school's driver ed course which I attended, there was a driving simulator mounted in a trailer to teach stick shifting. On one of the days, I had to drive a stick shift car. It was a VW on narrow twisting Malibu mountain canyon roads. I did OK. I mean, I'm still here. The instructor had his own brake pedal but no other overriding controls. |
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| LWpianistin | Dec 10 2011, 06:44 PM Post #11 |
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They should still teach stick. I wasn't given the option, but I would have taken it. I need to learn one of these days. |
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| MainerMikeBrown | Dec 10 2011, 07:10 PM Post #12 |
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My Drivers Ed instructor, also the music teacher in my old high school, was the biggest pervert in the world. It was one perverted joke after the next from him. And he liked to stare at just about any young female student. He was also overly friendly with many female students, many of which were to young to understand that the guy was a real pervert. The scary part is this guy had worked in our school district for at least twenty years. So much for kids being a first priority among our district's higher ups. |
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| Axtremus | Dec 10 2011, 08:28 PM Post #13 |
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I learnt and passed tests driving manual.
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| Riley | Dec 10 2011, 09:09 PM Post #14 |
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16-year-old driver's ed students are too young to recognize innapropriate or perverted behaviour? |
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| MainerMikeBrown | Dec 11 2011, 08:22 AM Post #15 |
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Riley, although I'm sure some of the girls thought this guy was a pervert, many of the girls in my class clearly didn't see it. They thought was a nice guy. Furthermore, my drama teacher was also thought of by many of the female students as a nice guy despite the fact that he acted the same way the driver's ed instructor did and was arrested for fooling around with one of his students the year after I graduated. |
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| 1hp | Dec 11 2011, 09:07 AM Post #16 |
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At my daughter's school they closed off the street and set up a crash scene complete with kids from the school in the vehicles. Make up was done professionally, as was the crash scene (think Hollywood). Bleachers were set up and all filled with the kids. Once everyone was there the whole thing was set in motion. Fire trucks and paramedics were dispatched, cars were ripped open with saws, etc.... kids dragged out. Breathalyser tests were given, and one "driver" arrested. One girl was given cpr but died on the scene. Her parents (real parents) arrived only to be given the bad news. The makeup etc... was realistic enough that the "real" mom broke down in tears when she was supposed to identify the body of her daughter. The kids were then sent back to classrooms, with the crash scene kids "missing" for the rest of the day. Most of the kids got the message. Cost for the police and firemen's time was paid for by parents. |
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| LWpianistin | Dec 11 2011, 09:22 AM Post #17 |
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That's good, 1hp. I think if I were a parent, I'd contribute to that lesson. |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 11 2011, 09:24 AM Post #18 |
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Seems over the top to me. |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 11 2011, 09:31 AM Post #19 |
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You might not feel that way in 14 years time
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that's awesome.
4:48 PM Jul 10