defensive...err, safe driving

[metamorphage]

Just took a three-hour defensive driving course at NRHS...apparently the 10/2 o'clock hands on the steering wheel position isn't good anymore. Now they're going for hands at 9/3 o'clock or lower, on the grounds that if you get in a crash (accident is also a bad word now) and your hands are too high up, the airbag might hurt your wrists. *rolls eyes* Oh, and the hand-over-hand method isn't good anymore now for the same reason; they expect you to use the "push-and-pull" method that all the little old ladies who get in accidents use. As if airbag damage is justification for realllllly slow steering speed the rest of the time. What else, what else...for one thing, it's not defensive driving now, it's a "safety driving course." Antilock brake systems scare some people (something about the vibrations being surprising, I dunno)...I'm glad these people aren't giving me my driving test. But it was taught by Salottolo and Anderson, so it wasn't a total loss.

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I love anti-lock brakes!!! They are really fun!!

[hippie-phoenix.livejournal.com]

The vibrations are awesome, why would they scare anybody? Also, I learned 9 and 3, its not that bad once you get used to it. But no hand-over-hand??!? That's asking to die a horrible death when you go into a building. Sal is by far one of my favorite people who doesn't know my name.

[beyondobsessive.livejournal.com]

And I can't drive, but I actually understood all of this. Ugh, they want to turn the world into old lady-land.