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QUESTION: Do you think schools should go back to teaching drivers ed, and showing graphic, real videos of crash scenes, or do you think they’re not appropriate?
Talk about it.
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I think that kids are desensitized from all the technology options they have. Mock scenes they know are pretend; it may hit home for a few.
Until it is real; BAM in the face, most aren’t effected by the pic’s…
Show real video footage of people from crashes that happened in the community. Let it hit home.
Bad Ideal because kids in high school will become reckless drivers. That remind me of the old movie back in 1960 in Driver’s Ed called Red Act Fall Not sure the spelling though. I never did like that movie at all
Red asphalt.
Asphalt: Road surface material.
Ah yes, “Red Asphalt.” High School drivers Ed. Kids today have been exposed to so much worse on video games. I don’t think it would make a difference.
Typical blood guts gore performances show actions of first responders.
Kids need to know about Newton and that pesky physics law.
Reaction times, rate of travel or feet per second at given speeds.
In stone age MDUSD still had drives ED, got real driving experience.
Teacher had a well worn pipe wrench which he’d hold out of passenger window.
When you heard wrench hit the ground you slammed on the brakes.
We’d get out of car and look back at wrench.
Gave a real world example of reaction time and stopping distance.
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Got on my daughter about following too close, her response was, SUV has a warning system.
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At 60 mph it takes length of a football field to stop.
https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/vehicle_stopping_distance_and_time_upenn.pdf
Print it out and give to family members
Yes! Pictures are reality.
Good – when they are near the age of getting a DL. Fourteen and up.
For me, Driver’s Ed almost 50 years ago. So the film quality wasn’t good enough to show any gore in great detail (which was probably a good thing), but it got the point across. Yes, it was disturbing to see, but we all got over it – maybe too quickly in some cases.
Yes, if teaching Drivers Education. It’s a real eye opener and they are old enough handle it, … need to learn.
In high school, I also attended Catechism, and they showed us a slide show of aborted babies.
I was so sick and shocked, I passed out. Yes, I put myself on Bitrh Control pill at 18 years old.
With what kids see now on video games – no impact… until it becomes real ….. had the re-enactments in high school then follwed up with watching “Red Asphalt” kind of hokey but ok
That’s just nonsense. You’ve watched Total Recall and the Terminator, yet you like 99.9% of people would still be traumatized if you saw someone shot to death in front of you. Just because you see a good depiction of a thing in a piece of fiction doesn’t mean you’ve experienced it.
There have been extremely graphic mainstream movies since the 60s.
Give me a break.
I didn’t see the shooting but I’ve seen a dead guy who was shot to death…. it wasn’t very upsetting.
There was some blood, but not too much.
Depends how “graphic” it is.
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In general, yes. It can emphasize their fragile mortality.
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When I see the carnage in the movies and video games kids play, I wonder why this is even a question.
That would be a huge improvement the bs they’re showing these kids in the schools. The damn perverted school system needs to be wiped out!
When I was in high school the school library subscribed to he California Highway Patrolman magazine. I wonder if that is now banned due to its graphic content. One article that stuck with me was written about an officer who during patrol took note of the terrain and possible escape routes. One night he saw a wrong-way driver coming head on at him. The officer knew the right shoulder, that he could not see at night, was a not too steep uphill bank and immediately veered to the right and up the hill to avoid the collision. I have developed the same driving habit though have never needed to take extreme evasive maneuvers.
Face it, there are adults who should watch graphic accident films. So many selfish and bad drivers out there. What would be even better is that with AI technology, the powers that be should make people who are cited for reckless driving be required to watch their own family in AI form put into these horrific situations. Then it would hit home. They might become better drivers. It might give some well needed humility to some drivers.
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