I know what you mean; the real problem is not the car but those driving it and HOW they drive. There would be no need for many of these efforts, if only we could teach people to think! No idea how to do that….but ere are my newest bumper stickers: KEEP RIGHT, PASS LEFT….
and the oldie but goodie: DRIVE NOW, TALK LATER….
Everybody needs to read “Licensed to Die” in this weeks edition of AUTOWEEK.It compares US driver training to other countries and talks about the dramatic results seen overseas.
For example, American’s get a warning light that tells when our tires are underinflated. In other countries students learn how to check tire inflation themselves and why it is important. Scandanavian countries mandate teaching skid recovery while in the US we are afraid that students will rush out and throw their cars into skids on purpose for amusement.
In Denmark, traffic fatalities have been reduced over 30% in the last decade.
Please check out this article- it’s a real eye opener and it supports what I have always preached about driver training in the US.
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I know what you mean; the real problem is not the car but those driving it and HOW they drive. There would be no need for many of these efforts, if only we could teach people to think! No idea how to do that….but ere are my newest bumper stickers: KEEP RIGHT, PASS LEFT….
and the oldie but goodie: DRIVE NOW, TALK LATER….
Everybody needs to read “Licensed to Die” in this weeks edition of AUTOWEEK.It compares US driver training to other countries and talks about the dramatic results seen overseas.
For example, American’s get a warning light that tells when our tires are underinflated. In other countries students learn how to check tire inflation themselves and why it is important. Scandanavian countries mandate teaching skid recovery while in the US we are afraid that students will rush out and throw their cars into skids on purpose for amusement.
In Denmark, traffic fatalities have been reduced over 30% in the last decade.
Please check out this article- it’s a real eye opener and it supports what I have always preached about driver training in the US.
“If the human race is so incapable of performing basic functions, maybe we should just eliminate them and have machines take over the planet.”
Be careful what you say! The age of the machines may be near. Didn’t you see “The Terminator?”
But I will be on the side of mankind, someone has to drill for oil in the sea, the salt water rusts all our joints…