• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    I mean, I’ve driven only automatics my whole life, with the odd exception of a friend’s ATV or whatnot, but I know when and how to use an e brake (and/or dual foot the brake pedal and gas pedal) to start a car on an incline, when said car has an automatic transmission…

    EDIT: Also, most automatics will let you attempt a rolling start in neutral… I’ve done this many times, either rolling downhill or having people push.

    You’re not gonna uninvent automatic transmissions.

    Assuming you’re American (I doubt a non American would name themselves ‘Boomer Humor’), what you could do is mandate people completely retest, written and driving tests, for their liscenses every 5 years, then every 2 years after some age cutoff (60? 65?) then every single year after another age cutoff (70? 75?)… instead of just assuming that because they passed the test once in their life, all their skills and knowledge are perfect and up to date for the rest of their lives.

    Most people think they are much better drivers than they actually are, so lets actually reality check them on that.

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      I would be so happy if we had stringent driving tests like in Europe. Hell, I’d gladly be re-tested every year if it meant people knew which lane to use and what turn signals were for.

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        13 days ago

        Honestly, thats great to hear.

        American car-centric culture is literally directly killing people, killing the environment, killing our ability to design cities and public transit…

        You’d think the least we could do is be competent at driving.

        But fucking nope, not a chance.

        I used to live in Seattle.

        Almost no one understands that in significant rain, you need to double your following distance.

        Still fucking baffles me to this day. Rain City people don’t know how to drive… in the rain.

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          A big reason why I’m all for public transport is to get people off the road who shouldn’t be there in the first place so they’re out of my way when I’m driving.

          Kind of like how I support new urbanism because it means less wilderness plowed under for suburbs, so I have more native habitat. I don’t want to live in a city, I just want most people to live in them so I can ve alone with my woodland friends.

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            “… get people off the road who shouldn’t be there in the first place…”

            i get the sentiment but i think this is problematic.

            who deserves the right to drive then?

            i hear you, “people who are capable”. but real life isn’t so cut and dry. the way it works in america now is awful fs, you can back this up with death statistics fairly easily; however, i think this tribalistic “us vs them” attitude drivers get is emblematic of deeper problems in our culture.

            everyone is all for the animal farm until they’re the other. cliche, i know, but it’s true.