[Mgs] Drivers Ed

[atweditor at aol.com]

 The actual driving part of Drivers Ed was the best, partly because you got to witness the dumb things your co-students did.? My favorite was the girl who while rounding a corner (and apparently she had some experience with a column-mounted shifter), pulled the transmission from drive into reverse.? Very interesting noises.

Jay


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
To: ATWEDITOR at aol.com; paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk; MG-MGB at yahoogroups.com; mgb-v8 at autox.team.net; mgs at autox.team.net
Sent: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:32 pm
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Head-on collision NOT for the faint hearted









ATWEDITOR at aol.com wrote:
 Back in the 60s when U.S. schools still offered "drivers education" before  
the insurance nazis forced them to stop, there was a handful of  
blood-on-the-hiway movies shown to instill the fear of something worse than  god.  The 
all-time classic was "Broken Glass." 
 
Not only did those films of all that carnage make me slow up a  little bit, 
it lessened my sense of shock when I went to Viet Nam a few years  later and 
saw the same kind of thing, but not from a car accident.
 

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They still offer it, Jay, and still show the same movie I saw in the '70's. Of course, gym teachers teach it... But the main teacher in my son's HS is pretty god. He is certified as a driver's ed instructor (not just classroom but car-based). I think you're referring to the schools
 having a couple of cars for on-road training. That is certainly gone.

In NJ, you cannot get a learner's permit without going through a certified driving school. Of course, the US drvier's tests are a joke, compared to the training you get in other parts of the world. The toughest part of the driving test here continues to be parallel parking.





  
  
  
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