Modern safety features encourage sloppy driving in the youth. Discuss

[TwinTurbo]

@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…

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[WesternRoadtripper1]

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.