I blame kids scrolling on their phones while in the car. That’s how you learned to drive, by observation.
Yes, no doubt the addiction to “social media” explains this. Not just kids staring down at their phones and not watching as the adult in the car drives, wanting to try it themselves. But perhaps also the whole shortened attention span thing. Maybe young Colton, having spent years staring at a fixed object, isn’t able to look around, observe what’s going on around him. He’ll be shopping for a self-driving car in a few years’ time.
My children are not quite driving age but for several years I’ve been occasionally giving driving advice. One recent one was to stay back a bit when you are the first car in a left turn lane. Often the left turners coming from the right will clip the corner of your lane. Just then a police car did just that.
A really excellent point!
And how to cuss at the windshield. :)
My niece’s daughter turned 16 last summer and got her drivers license. She’s a cheerleader and is on the school yearbook staff among other things My niece pretty much told her she had to get her license so she could drive herself to and from extracurricular activities, competitions, etc. She had no problem with it, but most of her classmates do not have their licenses.
We could hardly wait to get our licenses when we were in high school. My mom loved it too. I was the oldest of five and not only relieved her of chauffeuring duties for my stuff, but could help her with the occasional errand or picking up a sibling from an extracurricular activity.