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Driver’s education in the United States is broken, but how would you fix it?
Hemmings.com ^ | 12-19-14 | Kurt Ernst

Posted on 09/16/2015 1:50:45 PM PDT by Cowman

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To: Marko413; Cowman
Why should they have to know what a carburetor is when no cars are being made that have those anymore? May as well include a course on the horse and buggy.

Because I know how to fix a buckboard, I can understand how to fix a car. Because I can fix a carburetor, I can understand how to fix injection.

Simple systems provide understanding - HOW it works - A concept which is very nearly gone in this day of remove-and-replace and computerized diagnosis.

41 posted on 09/16/2015 2:25:28 PM PDT by roamer_1
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To: T-Bone Texan

We grew up in cars, many foreigners did not. Makes a big difference. I learned to drive racing go karts. One of the ABS sensors on my car went bad, I just pulled the ABS fuse. Now it drives like the cars I drove in my first 50 years of driving, and I feel like I have control of the brakes! I like it!


42 posted on 09/16/2015 2:25:52 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: FreedomPoster
Typical from one mom was “thanks so much for doing this, because my husband sure couldn’t do it.”

So the war on masculinity claims yet another part of the culture.

43 posted on 09/16/2015 2:26:27 PM PDT by Cowman (As Jerry Williams used to say --- When comes the revolution....)
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To: Fido969

I realize that the word “carburetor” is an ancient word but millions of vehicles and engines...including your lawn mower....still use them.

If you drove a 1975 Ford F-100 you would still have to know how a carb works.

My best advice is to make the “kid” go through all of the tests we used to have to do back in 1960. Even though the vehicle probably can do it, make them do it. There’s nothing like the experience in actual defensive driving of the older world.


44 posted on 09/16/2015 2:26:51 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Cowman

Mobsteel took an old IH Loadstar and made it into their shop truck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=7&v=SCEZQPRyePU


45 posted on 09/16/2015 2:26:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Cowman

LOL! Eight forward gears and a Georgia overdrive!


46 posted on 09/16/2015 2:27:44 PM PDT by roamer_1
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To: Cowman
Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but you would be hard pressed to find a carburetor in a car less than 15 years old. Oil changes are sort of ucky for your average Millennial, even assuming he/she/it could find the filter.

In a time when all you have to do is call Daddy's AAA on your cell phone, 3:00AM in the middle of nowhere is no big crisis.

And the Maniac with the Hook doesn't even have a loop on the door handle to catch his hook on, any more.

If you don't live on a farm, chances are you don't know what a gear is, let alone having to change them.

The nice thing about talking on a cell phone while driving is that the Stupid is self correcting... Eventually, BANG!!! One or more less Democrats.

47 posted on 09/16/2015 2:27:53 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: alpo

Italy is where lane markers are just a suggestion and driving 3 or 4 across 2 lanes is normal.


48 posted on 09/16/2015 2:28:52 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: rktman

I’m a Bondurant grad...’73 at Ontario.

Man the smog in the afternoon was killer, being from Ohio I had never experienced the “burn” in your lungs.


49 posted on 09/16/2015 2:29:19 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: Cowman

“Blame it on modern cars, which have gotten so forgiving...”

There’s a lot of truth to that. I went from a ‘78 Delta 88 with no frills except power steering to a 97 Cadillac. The difference in handling was insane. I really had to lighten up on the brake foot, the first time I drove the Caddy I used the normal pressure I needed to brake the Olds over a few seconds, and the Caddy screeched to a halt in a heartbeat :)


50 posted on 09/16/2015 2:29:47 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Ha! I was watching that “Lilyhammer” show, and the American guy tries to go get a license in Norway, thinking it will be an in & out thing, because he already has an American license. The Norwegian DMV guys just busted out laughing, “oh, no, no, you will have to learn to drive the NORWEGIAN way”!


51 posted on 09/16/2015 2:31:48 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: cripplecreek
I grew up rural and most of us learned to drive by the time we were 12 to 14 years old and many younger. We were experienced drivers by the time we got to Driver training around 1980.

Yup. Was driving hay trucks in the field as soon as I could reach the pedals... Backing up trailers and implements shortly after that. I could drive way before high school...

52 posted on 09/16/2015 2:32:25 PM PDT by roamer_1
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To: 9YearLurker

A little taste.

http://www.motorweek.org/features/over_the_edge/finland_drivers_license


53 posted on 09/16/2015 2:33:03 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL

I learned to drive on the Long Island Expressway. Manhattan is a breeze to drive through compared with any city I’v driven in down here.


54 posted on 09/16/2015 2:33:23 PM PDT by stanne
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To: frithguild

If there was snow, that car has long since dissolved from the salt.


55 posted on 09/16/2015 2:34:13 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: nascarnation

LOL! I take it we ain’t talkin’ Ontario Canada then. Everything I’ve read, the air in the LA area is a whole lot better now days. I remember going out there in the mid ‘60’s and it was pretty bad. The last time I was there was in ‘99 I think and it sure seemed better.


56 posted on 09/16/2015 2:39:55 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Yeah it was the old Ontario Motor Speedway which has long since been bulldozed. I think Bondurant started at Riverside, then Ontario, then Sonoma and finally moved to Phoenix where it is now.

Bob is in his 80s.


57 posted on 09/16/2015 2:43:31 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: nascarnation
Bob is in his 80s.

he lasted longer than Mickey Thompson

On March 16, 1988, Thompson and his wife Trudy were killed by two hooded gunmen outside their home in Bradbury, California in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.[2] On the morning of the murder a pair of unknown assailants waited outside the Thompson home for the couple to leave for the day. Mickey opened the garage door for his wife to pull out in her vehicle, and as he headed for his own car the gunmen attacked. He was shot and wounded, then dragged out into the driveway while one of the attackers went after Trudy as she backed out. Killing her, the gunman then came back up the driveway where the other gunman was watching over Mickey and shot him fatally in the head.[2] The attackers then made their escape on the bicycles they had ridden to the Thompson residence.

Just another reason to dislike bicycles

58 posted on 09/16/2015 2:51:51 PM PDT by Cowman (As Jerry Williams used to say --- When comes the revolution....)
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To: nascarnation

Think there’s one in south Florida too. School that is.


59 posted on 09/16/2015 2:55:24 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Cowman

My proposal for a new driving test.

The applicant must wear a helmet with front/rear recording capability, and then provide 4 hours of footage of the applicant walking through a crowded shopping mall.

How the applicant walks through a crowded shopping mall is a good indicator of how they will drive on a crowded freeway.

I have personally seen people walking at the mall that I have really hoped did not have a driver’s license.


60 posted on 09/16/2015 3:22:07 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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