[Gmecm] RANT was Undignified death of a project :P

[Rick McLeod]

years ago when I was in high school, drivers education taught some things we take for common knowledge. Now that budget crunches have hit, there barely is any of that taught. I remember some critical pass/fail items:
parallel parking
backing straight for a distance
changing a tire
checking tire pressure
checking underhood criticals
and a few others

I liken some of this to other things like you used to get your oil checked every fill up for free, tires if you wanted, windshield cleaned, etc at the local filling station. Now with the advent of self service fuel outlets the responsibility has shifted. But no one is teaching that anywhere to my knowledge.

I also liken it to the introduction of (or proliferation of) these traffic circles aka round-a-bouts for our across the pond buddies, without any user education. They just starting popping up like mushrooms, and most folks have no idea of the 'protocol' to use them. It's a pet peave right up there with those drivers that stop dead at the end of a merge ramp to the expressway, when there is an opening that the accelerator would have nicely blended them in. Going back to my DE rant, that was another thing they taught, that the brake is not necessarily the only control to use for safety but sometimes it works better to accelerate out of a situation than to brake into one.

and, yes I feel better for the rant, I'll now return you to your normally boring threads

cheers