What exactly should be taught in Driver's Education?
Q. There was the recent scandal in the State of Illinios where the Governor received political contributions to allow unqualified truck drivers to obtain a driver's license to drive a truck. Such a truck driver caused an accident in Wisconsin killing children in an automobile. There are counties in southern states where people can obtain a driver's license without even taking a test with a bribe to a public county official. It should not be possible to get a license without a test or get a license in another state after it is revoked in one state. There should be one standard license for entire United States provided by each state under federal oversight, just the way that aviation is handled. In Germany, for example, a very difficult examination and training is required to obtain a driver's license, as I have driven in Germany. Another issue is the fact that some states require motor vehicle inspections, while other stated do have any inspections at all. Annual inspections should be mandatory in every state. I can drive into a state without inspections and see lots of vehicles with baldy tires(tyres). I have been driving 40 years and received my initial driver's license after taking after pass a 10 question true or false test and taking road test before driver's education existed. To pass the written test you had to get 6 questions right on the 10 question test. I have taken several driver training classes recently to reduce my auto insurance 10 %, and not because of any accidents or traffic tickets. I thought the classes were mostly rubbish about defensive driving which to me is just plain common sense to me. One should expect the other drive to do dumb things and react such as not stopping at a stop sign. What exactly should be taught in Driver's Education?
A. I had Drivers Ed in public school and found nothing wrong with it. The problem is not the teaching nor the licensing. The problem is ATTITUDE. Drivers simply think they are better than they actually are, or that an accident can't happen to them. Some of them just don't give a damn. The vast, vast majority of traffic accidents are due to driver error that was preventable (not merely carelessness, but arrogance).
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