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From: chris@scgvaxd.UUCP (Chris Yoder)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Learning to drive...well
Message-ID: <274@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 18:03:02 EST
Article-I.D.: scgvaxd.274
Posted: Tue Mar  5 18:03:02 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 08:26:30 EST
References: <76@mit-athena.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@scgvaxd.UUCP (Chris Yoder)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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Summary: 

In article <76@mit-athena.UUCP> boris@mit-athena.UUCP (Boris N Goldowsky) writes:
>I think that the driving test is much too easy and requires much too little
>knowledge and skill.  Why have a test at all if it doesn't weed out really
>bad drivers (like I was?).
>
>Comments?
>
>--
>Boris Goldowsky
>	decvax!mit-athena!boris
>	boris@mit-athena.arpa

     I've always been of the opinion that everybody who is applying for a
licence (renewal or new) should have to take a driven test.  I believe that
some sort of emergency handling test should also be included, perhaps this
could be done on a simulator so that real cars weren't torn up by the test.
I am continually surprised by the basic lack of good driving sence that I
see on the roads, but then one considers that you can miss up to 20% of the
questions and STILL get a drivers license (and miss a few points on the
driving test to boot...) then it becomes painfully obvious that there are a
lot of people out there who don't know what to do in all driving situations.
Why people are allowed to miss more than 1 question is beyond me (I'll give
them one because there are bound to be some "tricky" questions).  

     Actually my main pet peve is against people who insist upon driving
when they aren't in full control of thier facilities...  I wish that people
would *think* when they drive instead of zoning out in the fast lane.  

				-- Chris Yoder

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