This Ought To Make You Feel Safe...
So one week of driver's ed is over, 5 days of class from noon to 2 (although with a 15 minute brake in the middle so that the students can run to one of the nearby fast food resturaunts and buy a drink, but more often they just stand around outside complaining about how they really hate the old desks they have to sit in during class).
Anyway, today we studied intersections, and what to do at them. To help us we got to watch two movies. Old movies by the look of them.
The first movie was about the 5 rules of determining who has the right of way at an intersection, and demonstrated the facts with computer generated models. Old computer generated models. It looked very much like a colored pong. So it starts with blue-rectangle-car approaching the intersection and yellow-rectangle-car approaches from the left. Then the models jerk forward and disapear, only to reapear a second later, a few inches in front, so it looks very much like they should have crashed, if the blue-rectangle-car had not made it safely through the intersection.
The second movie (titled something like: Railroad Crossings: Staying Alert and Alive [already I'm feeling the love]) seemed to be made from model trains filmed with model cars. Crashing into model cars. Alot. Everyone in the class cheered whenever there was a crash.
That should make you feel very safe about the future of drivers in America.
So one week of driver's ed is over, 5 days of class from noon to 2 (although with a 15 minute brake in the middle so that the students can run to one of the nearby fast food resturaunts and buy a drink, but more often they just stand around outside complaining about how they really hate the old desks they have to sit in during class).
Anyway, today we studied intersections, and what to do at them. To help us we got to watch two movies. Old movies by the look of them.
The first movie was about the 5 rules of determining who has the right of way at an intersection, and demonstrated the facts with computer generated models. Old computer generated models. It looked very much like a colored pong. So it starts with blue-rectangle-car approaching the intersection and yellow-rectangle-car approaches from the left. Then the models jerk forward and disapear, only to reapear a second later, a few inches in front, so it looks very much like they should have crashed, if the blue-rectangle-car had not made it safely through the intersection.
The second movie (titled something like: Railroad Crossings: Staying Alert and Alive [already I'm feeling the love]) seemed to be made from model trains filmed with model cars. Crashing into model cars. Alot. Everyone in the class cheered whenever there was a crash.
That should make you feel very safe about the future of drivers in America.
posted by Isaac | 6:55 PM
1 Comments:
I'm pretty sure we watched "Railroad Crossings: Alert or Alive" in my driver's ed class 7 years ago. You will note that I have never crashed into a train.
Post a Comment
<< Home