Posted by Brian G. NY on January 29, 2016 at 14:36:04 from (96.43.79.158):
In Reply to: driving school posted by stonerock on January 29, 2016 at 07:35:54:
I took driver ed in H.S in my senior year (58/59).
Like most guys my age, I learned how to drive long before that on tractors and farm trucks.
We took driver's ed mainly because it gave us 10% off on our insurance.
However, I will say that, as much as we didn't like to admit it, we did learn important stuff.
I believe all kids should take driver ed, especially nowadays when many have never driven a vehicle of any sort and don't have even the foggiest notion about the simple physics of controlling a big piece of machinery with all that inertia.
The Chevy dealer and the Desoto/Plymouth dealer took turns furnishing the driver ed cars every couple of years. I was lucky and got to drive a beautiful '57 Chevy.
To familiarize us with stick shift, we got to take the school's '57 Ford wagon a couple of times.
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