How to drive without your phone up against your head would be a plus as well
You're asking waaaay too much.
You ARE old.
Automate driving.
Young kids are always going to be inexperienced drivers. At least until the matrix plug in brain port arrives.
The best driver training I got was navigating the streets of Istanbul. If you can drive there accident free, you can drive anywhere...
Adopt the Finland means of educating young drivers. They do it better than anyone.
All kids today need to learn to drive on a 1960 Chevy Bel Air. With a 3 on the tree, no power steering, drum brakes that will stop (eventually) in less a mile, no air conditioning or power anything.
A car that corners slightly better than a mobile home and that will reach 60 mph - in a minute or so.
Yep. IF they learn to drive a beast like that - then they can drive anything.
Get rid of the foreign drivers. They lower the bar with their incompetence and hostility.
Make them take the bus.
Then get rid of the bostile and incompetent foreigners in the DMV also.
Then it might look like America again.
training must begin in communist China ...
at least for California’s roads where communist Chinese ‘immigrants’ (or permanent visitors) drive 12 mph (sliding from lane to lane in a whimsical manner without notice to, or notice of, anybody else who may be trying to survive their road trip)
and then the very same drivers speed up to 96mph like rocket ships....once inside the Costco parking lot, all aimed at the one open space by the front door...a Demolition Derby with Kamakazi pilots
How to drive without your phone up against your head would be a plus as well
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. My driver's training was tough in SoCal and many of us failed the test the first time. I had to parallel park on an incline, go on the freeway, and guess at the speed limits on roads that had no posting. I moved to a small town in the midwest and here they have you simply do a lap around the center of town (1 block). As long as you obey the 25 limit, stop at the signs, and use your turn signal you get a license. It's a complete joke and no surprise there are so many accidents in the area.
Talking on the phone is bad, but the ones that scare me more than talking on phones are those that text while driving. It's crap like that that is forcing insurance companies to consider these wild ideas like installing cams in our vehicles.
Raise the driving age
Take away license for drunk driving at least a year. First iffense
Pay to learn to drive
Better mass transit
Germany does some things right. Saw three accidents in four years of living there. In Texas, got hit 6 -SIX times not moving. At stop signs, in parking spots, at the on ramp. Six times
Big business for med community and emergency community.
Never change
I do not know how people drive in Houston. It reminds me of Riyadh where cars are disposable and no one humbles themselves to learn to drive. Wild. No women either
Step one is to stop having our licenses come out of Cracker Jack boxes. If the driver’s exam to get a license was actually a serious test that required one to actually be able to drive that would dictate the curricula. Everybody I know that went from America to someplace else failed the test at least twice, everybody I know that went the other direction was aghast at how unfailable our test is.
It isn’t just the youth. No one seems to be able to drive today without using their cell phone. I’m wearing out my horn honking at stop lights while the driver in front of me gets on the phone and forgets to watch the light.
Maybe I should invent an APP that tells them the light is green and plays the message “Hang Up The Phone Idiot!”
More youngsters than one may think know most of that save the carburetor thingy these days. Nanny state in DC prefers electronic fuel injection; even the lowly Dodge Omni post-1987 was sold with single-point FI. As far as stickshifts go, most cars with them have been synchromesh for ages, so no need to watch the revs to change gears.
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.
No dads around teaching anything.
I’d like to have current and trainee drivers understand that if they tailgate and/or cut off other drivers at high speeds and in bad weather, one fine day somebody is gonna kick their freakin’ ASS!
How about cell phone interlock?
When the car is in drive, cell phone is put into airplane mode.
Simulators