First, as a former Buffalonian and now Clevelander, here's to James Hoge. Second, thanks for reviewing what drivers should do during a power outage! And you're right--many people seem to have never learned or to have willfully forgotten the rules.
I'm always amazed at what I see on the roads, its like some people never took a driver's test. Its so dangerous our there, not to mention all the people that are high too! Stay and be safe Kate.
People drive like they have lost their minds. They fly through redlights and when the light turns green they sit there. Or I am tailgated down the road because I am driving the speed limit. I can't tell you how many times I pull over to let them pass me. It is crazy
I've been attentive to this for years, and I'm pretty sure most current-day drivers have zero idea what to do at a four-way stop. I stop at one most times I leave the house, and people seem clueless.
I have to wonder if it's the fact that no one has driver's ed in school any more and for decades now, wannabe drivers have learned from either their parents (who may or may not have had driver's ed or may have learned in a different country with different rules) or from paid-for private driving lessons that separate the privileged from the not. It's unfortunate that something like that has become yet another way in which American class and economics show themselves.
What this means is that drivers seem uncertain of the rules. When they don't have clear guidelines, like a traffic light, they are lost (and perhaps a bit self centered). Then there's the seemingly universal effect that the Pandemic has had on driving habits. They've really suffered, and I haven't figured out why except that James Clear (author of Atomic Habits) says that when there is an event that affects the masses, other major changes will occur.
Don't get me started on the running of red lights, which I see daily since the Pandemic, or the fact that California drivers clearly didn't learn to "stay right except to pass." In NJ where I not only grew up but had high school driver's ed, it's against the law to stay in the far left lane (generally speaking unless there is stand-still traffic).
Always interesting for a 4 way stop...I usually offer the car to my right the go ahead by tapping my high beams.....this act of brotherly love usually results in the driver to my left shooting through the intersection at warp speed....I usually end up waiting to go until I am the unchallenged first in line.....another example of how did that accident ever happen..?? LOL
First, as a former Buffalonian and now Clevelander, here's to James Hoge. Second, thanks for reviewing what drivers should do during a power outage! And you're right--many people seem to have never learned or to have willfully forgotten the rules.
I'm always amazed at what I see on the roads, its like some people never took a driver's test. Its so dangerous our there, not to mention all the people that are high too! Stay and be safe Kate.
They drive among us. Be afraid, be very afraid.
People drive like they have lost their minds. They fly through redlights and when the light turns green they sit there. Or I am tailgated down the road because I am driving the speed limit. I can't tell you how many times I pull over to let them pass me. It is crazy
you don't know how good this column is.
I've been attentive to this for years, and I'm pretty sure most current-day drivers have zero idea what to do at a four-way stop. I stop at one most times I leave the house, and people seem clueless.
I have to wonder if it's the fact that no one has driver's ed in school any more and for decades now, wannabe drivers have learned from either their parents (who may or may not have had driver's ed or may have learned in a different country with different rules) or from paid-for private driving lessons that separate the privileged from the not. It's unfortunate that something like that has become yet another way in which American class and economics show themselves.
What this means is that drivers seem uncertain of the rules. When they don't have clear guidelines, like a traffic light, they are lost (and perhaps a bit self centered). Then there's the seemingly universal effect that the Pandemic has had on driving habits. They've really suffered, and I haven't figured out why except that James Clear (author of Atomic Habits) says that when there is an event that affects the masses, other major changes will occur.
Don't get me started on the running of red lights, which I see daily since the Pandemic, or the fact that California drivers clearly didn't learn to "stay right except to pass." In NJ where I not only grew up but had high school driver's ed, it's against the law to stay in the far left lane (generally speaking unless there is stand-still traffic).
Thank you for a much-needed article!!
I often wonder where drivers really got their licenses and how long a go could it possibly have been.
Always interesting for a 4 way stop...I usually offer the car to my right the go ahead by tapping my high beams.....this act of brotherly love usually results in the driver to my left shooting through the intersection at warp speed....I usually end up waiting to go until I am the unchallenged first in line.....another example of how did that accident ever happen..?? LOL
When the lights are out, it reveals....the lights are out, I guess!?! (If, you know what I mean)
If you go back and read a few of the sentences mid-essay and then insert/imagine that loud vehicle thing, it all makes sense.😀