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i think the whole nanny situation you talk about hits it on the head.Panic can and sometimes will cause people to simply 'freeze' at the controls. They may not even know what they need to be doing.
I'm with GreenS550 here, in that having a few years of snow driving early in one's driving life is incredibly valuable. All the way from driving in the snow/slush to driving in the wet to putting the car at its limits on the track in the dry. But you need to start "at the bottom" where loss of tire grip happens at the lowest speeds
The scary thing here is that in today's world of nannified cars it's somewhat harder to even get that experience - and without that experience you're going to be worse off when you either turn them off to show off, or when the situation gets out past what the nannies can save you from.
Norm
As a youngster I remember āstealingā my dads car and learning how to hang the back out.
Stupid as it was, it was a basis for learning car control.
Many youngsters of today really donāt have the advantage of learning to drive analog cars .
Would it be a good idea to make a advanced drivers course a necessity to obtain a drivers?
Perhaps it will save a lot of lives and bent metal .
Just a thought.
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