# Modern safety features encourage sloppy driving in the youth. Discuss **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/modern-safety-features-encourage-sloppy-driving-in-the-youth-discuss/126726 "2018-10-14T03:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/modern-safety-features-encourage-sloppy-driving-in-the-youth-discuss/126726/41 "2018-10-19T15:27:32Z")
> [@sgtrock21](#): > > _Of course we did. Do parents teaching their children to drive still do that?_ > Doubtful. > > _Do current parents actually know how to drive?_ > Based on my daily encounters, not many. > > _I was taught to drive by my Father who had never had a traffic citation in an old 1954 Chevrolet 3 speed M/T column shift at the age of 13 on our dead end gravel street. There were no large empty parking lots._ > We drove to the school or to the closest grocery store, bowling alley etc. 10-15 miles away. Cops would give us initial grief but when we told them we were practicing how to recover from skids etc they mostly left us alone. I recall one that actually gave out pointers… Post can’t be empty… ---
**Author:** ![WesternRoadtripper1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/48db29/32.png) [@WesternRoadtripper1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/WesternRoadtripper1)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/modern-safety-features-encourage-sloppy-driving-in-the-youth-discuss/126726/42 "2018-10-20T04:11:34Z")
I learned to use a clutch on an Allis Chalmers HD-15 bulldozer with a 3 foot long steel lever (the clutch) sticking up out of the floor. So by the time I was first allowed to try dad’s '53 Chevy pickup with those cool corner windows four years later at age 15, I well understood the concept of “friction point”. I drove that old truck about 20 miles in our 50 yard long driveway, back and forth, before I got to do the same in the family dorky sedan. So I had a good feel for how a car moved and responded to gas, brake, and steering, before I had to learn to deal with TRAFFIC. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/modern-safety-features-encourage-sloppy-driving-in-the-youth-discuss/126726.md?page=2)