Learning to Drive - Page 2

Elspode · 05-14-2008, 12:56 AM

I started driving my folks' cars at 14, when my mom decided that she didn't want to have to drive to the store for milk and bread. My previous experience had been driving a tractor on my uncle's ranch, and operating my cousin's car. I never really found it the least bit difficult. Studied the book, took the test the day I turned 16, got my license.

I took driver's ed at 17, after I'd been driving for three years anyway. It was stupid. We had driving simulators, which were useless as they had zero feedback of any kind. There was a film projected on the wall (that all of the simulators used as their front windshield view), and it just did what it did, and you were supposed to do what it was doing. So, when the view would start to turn, you had to start to turn, and when the turn stopped, you had to stop turning...except that by the time you reacted to the film you were watching (since you weren't actually *doing* anything), you were inevitably deficient in some way. "Didn't stop fast enough" "Turned too far to the right" "Accelerated too sharply".

It was a complete waste of time.

Cloud · 05-13-2008, 11:27 PM

Requirements differ from state to state, I'd like to point out.

spudcon · 05-15-2008, 09:26 AM

snip< Some classroom stuff, gore movies, and maybe 10 hours of road practice.> This global warming hysteria has no place in driver education.

Dingleschmutz · 05-15-2008, 09:29 AM

Al Gore will eat your soul for that.

JuancoRocks · 05-16-2008, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Dingleschmutz

Al Gore will eat your soul for that.

Al Gore will eat anything that pauses in front of him.

skysidhe · 05-15-2008, 10:02 AM

I had drivers ed at the age of 13. It was in the rural areas outside of Boise. It was very flat all round. The teacher took me on the freeway to drive. What was he thinking!!!??

dar512 · 05-15-2008, 11:36 AM

He was thinking there's nothing to hit in Idaho, so why not?

elSicomoro · 05-15-2008, 12:03 PM

We didn't have driver's ed at my school. My mother actually taught me most of my driving...we first started practicing on my high school parking lot. Got my permit 2 months before my 16th birthday...MO passed a law at that time allowing you to get your permit at 15 1/2. My parents then hired a driving school to make sure I knew what I was doing...had 2 lessons, and passed them with flying colors. Used the driving school's car for my exam and passed with a 90.

I am now helping teach my 19-year-old sister-in-law to drive. She's had her permit for a while now, but got so comfortable that she failed her first attempt at the driving test. The goal is to get her her license before we leave for the East Coast, which is June 7th. We'll see...

YUCI1004 · 05-16-2008, 10:55 AM

in china, i learn drive when i was 18, in driving school. but after i spend thounsands of money i find that i still don't know how to drive. and then i go back home, ask my dear uncle teach me how to drive. now i have the drive card, but i still can not drive in some place alone, because there are too many people... and some of them rush into street abruptly before you only ask you to wash car-_____- ||||

it's extremly dangerous. so i uncle didn't let me drive alone in some place....

xoxoxoBruce · 05-16-2008, 10:44 PM

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and some of them rush into street abruptly before you only ask you to wash car-_____- ||||

Whoa.... you have them over there too?

05-14-2008, 12:56 AM	#1
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I started driving my folks' cars at 14, when my mom decided that she didn't want to have to drive to the store for milk and bread. My previous experience had been driving a tractor on my uncle's ranch, and operating my cousin's car. I never really found it the least bit difficult. Studied the book, took the test the day I turned 16, got my license. I took driver's ed at 17, after I'd been driving for three years anyway. It was stupid. We had driving simulators, which were useless as they had zero feedback of any kind. There was a film projected on the wall (that all of the simulators used as their front windshield view), and it just did what it did, and you were supposed to do what it was doing. So, when the view would start to turn, you had to start to turn, and when the turn stopped, you had to stop turning...except that by the time you reacted to the film you were watching (since you weren't actually doing anything), you were inevitably deficient in some way. "Didn't stop fast enough" "Turned too far to the right" "Accelerated too sharply". It was a complete waste of time. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

05-13-2008, 11:27 PM	#2
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Requirements differ from state to state, I'd like to point out. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

05-15-2008, 11:36 AM	#7
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	He was thinking there's nothing to hit in Idaho, so why not? __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

05-15-2008, 09:26 AM	#3
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	snip< Some classroom stuff, gore movies, and maybe 10 hours of road practice.> This global warming hysteria has no place in driver education.

05-15-2008, 09:29 AM	#4
Dingleschmutz is not a palindrome... Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Des Moines Posts: 341	Al Gore will eat your soul for that.

05-15-2008, 10:02 AM	#6
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	I had drivers ed at the age of 13. It was in the rural areas outside of Boise. It was very flat all round. The teacher took me on the freeway to drive. What was he thinking!!!??

05-15-2008, 12:03 PM	#8
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	We didn't have driver's ed at my school. My mother actually taught me most of my driving...we first started practicing on my high school parking lot. Got my permit 2 months before my 16th birthday...MO passed a law at that time allowing you to get your permit at 15 1/2. My parents then hired a driving school to make sure I knew what I was doing...had 2 lessons, and passed them with flying colors. Used the driving school's car for my exam and passed with a 90. I am now helping teach my 19-year-old sister-in-law to drive. She's had her permit for a while now, but got so comfortable that she failed her first attempt at the driving test. The goal is to get her her license before we leave for the East Coast, which is June 7th. We'll see...

05-16-2008, 10:55 AM	#9
YUCI1004 Rapscallion Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5	in china, i learn drive when i was 18, in driving school. but after i spend thounsands of money i find that i still don't know how to drive. and then i go back home, ask my dear uncle teach me how to drive. now i have the drive card, but i still can not drive in some place alone, because there are too many people... and some of them rush into street abruptly before you only ask you to wash car-_____- \|\|\|\| it's extremly dangerous. so i uncle didn't let me drive alone in some place....

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