How do I get a car for my driver's road test so I can get my license? - by lizardfuel55
37637598 on 18/12/2010 at 07:20
I'll take that van...
going once?
rachel on 18/12/2010 at 09:22
Quote Posted by An72
A defensive driving course will teach safe and accident free driving techniques. The course will teach protection techniques and how to handle road rage and speeding. And will teach safe driving techniques in bad weather and adverse conditions. The course will hone skills in highway driving, night driving, and extreme weather driving. The course will inculcate critical safety issues and teach emergency action too. By taking a defensive driving course you will not have to appear in court. The driving violation charges will be dismissed and a fine will not be assessed.
I practiced all that when I took regular classes at my regular driving school... What
do they teach you in the US?? :weird:
Vivian on 18/12/2010 at 12:12
Inculcate? Holy shit, its (
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inculcate) actually a word. I'm not totally convinced 'driving violation charges will be dismissed' just because you have a special certificate. I've been on one of those courses, they pretty much just taught me how to control a skidding car and to not run drunks or schoolkids over.
Renzatic on 18/12/2010 at 18:36
Quote Posted by raph
I practiced all that when I took regular classes at my regular driving school... What
do they teach you in the US?? :weird:
Unfortunately, driving school isn't mandatory here. Basically all you do is take a written test showing you know what the road signs mean. For that, they give you a learners permit. You wait a year, take a driving test with an instructor, and if you pass, you get your license. It's assumed your parents have given you extensive hands on lessons in the time between.
It's no wonder 3/4ths of people on the road can't drive for shit.
Queue on 18/12/2010 at 18:59
At one time, driver's training was an actual course (free and offered as part of our high school education) that lasted throughout the school year. By the time I took it, in 1986, it had been parred down do a summer-only course. But we still went through rigorous training and instruction -- hell, we even learned how to change a flat tire -- and there were no guarantees of passing.
Now, thanks to budget cuts, driver's training has been more-or-less privatized -- available through a "professional" driving school instructor who makes $300 per student in tuition, and gives only an hour or two of actual road time.
From what I understand, no one fails (unless they actually kill someone during their drive-time) because, well, they paid good money to be there.
I don't know if that's true, but I do know of one girl who has been a licensed driver for two years and can't back up or stay in her lane for the life of her. She's well-known in the area for forcing other drivers off the road in on-coming traffic, and has hit several cars in the school's parking lot trying to pull into (or back out of) a space. She actually showed up at my house, this past summer, and tried to back out down our drive: five times running well up into the gardens, completely ruining a saw-horse, a Swedish hoe, and a small tree, not to mention the damage caused by running over the plants themselves...all while completely oblivious to the damage she was creating. She finally made her way into the street and merrily drove off, leaving a mangled saw horse in the middle of the road.
Thief13x on 18/12/2010 at 23:47
I honestly think education has little to do with being a good/bad driver. Is there really that much to learn and is driving really that hard? no - what's hard is being disciplined enough to a) pay attention, b) obey the law (yes that means turnsignals when changing lanes), and c) get off the road when you shouldn't be driving (too old, drinking, tired, etc).
I would bet that the vast majority of accidents are caused by violating one or more of those 3. You can have all the education you want but if you're flying down the road at a mile a minute and talking on the phone, you're as dangerous as a drunk driver.
Tocky on 19/12/2010 at 02:40
Alright, first off what is a swedish hoe? From the sound of it I want one but it might be really gay as far as hoes go so I need to know.
Quote Posted by Queue
Now, thanks to budget cuts, driver's training has been more-or-less privatized -- available through a "professional" driving school instructor who makes $300 per student in tuition, and gives only an hour or two of actual road time.
What? They still have a course in my state free of charge at sophomore year. In my day they did the cone thing and had a simulator too where a ball bounced into the street and you had to be braindead not to know a child was soon behind. I even got the school award somehow despite saying I would hit the 30 mph speed limit somewhere in the exit ramp when asked why I hadn't slowed yet.
I had to take a driving course to get my license back after my DUI too. I'll never forget it because at my first class I sat next to a highway patrolman who had to smell the pot but I was that stage of paranoid where you go back the other way and get the barvado to grin in the face of danger which was foolish of course because you know they have training in the smell of it but damn it you are only young and completely stupid once and you have to giggle a bit.
Naturally I don't advocate living my life without the enormous amount of natural luck I seem to have. I'm glad I didn't kill anyone important though.
PeeperStorm on 19/12/2010 at 03:13
Quote Posted by Queue
At one time, driver's training was an actual course (free and offered as part of our high school education)...Now, thanks to budget cuts, driver's training has been more-or-less privatized -- available through a "professional" driving school instructor who makes $300 per student in tuition, and gives only an hour or two of actual road time.
Wait, you mean that our high school kids are no longer exposed to the joys of (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Asphalt)
Red Asphalt and other safety movies? That means that footage of pedestrians cut in half with their innards spread out across 40 feet of highway is a thing of the past. No more headless passengers halfway through their windshields, no more drivers impaled on their steering columns. Pity.
