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Helped a female coworker change her tire on her 2009 Chevy Tahoe. After we changed her tire she asked for help because we had set the parking brake and she didn’t know how to release the parking brake.
Seriously, does anyone bother to learn the basic fundamentals of their vehicle before driving? When I am about to drive a vehicle for the first time the first thing I do is learn where the controls are and how to operate them. Controls being things like headlights, windshield wipers, hazards lights, parking brake, climate control, and mirror adjustments (since some are manual and some are powered). I don’t even start the vehicle before becoming familiar with where these controls are located and how to operate them. Do today’s drivers education courses teach such things before the student drives the car? Do they teach them mechanical basics like checking fluids and air filters? Do they teach them how to change basic stuff like changing wiper blades, changing air filters, or adding fluid as needed? This lady didn’t know why we set the brake just to jack up the Tahoe to change a tire. Didn’t even bother to ask if she knew she needed to set the brake when parking on incline or decline or other situations. Before you ask, she was in her twenties.
I helped a visiting speaker figure out how to turn on his headlights on a rental car back in 1988. He arrived during the day, and couldn’t figure out where the switch was. Took me 1 second to find it in the dark. This was 30 years ago so not a new thing.
Why does one exchange represents everyone? It sounds like you're saying you the "smartest" of them all is the only one that knows how to drive a car, and one person not knowing as much as you and that automatically means everyone does not know how to drive. The arrogance in this statement.
Totally reminded me of my driving school back in g'ol country. Picture about 20 of us, in same room, sitting on chairs, with stick in R hand (gear shifter) and, upon instructor command, "shifting gears" while "operating clutch and brake" with our feet.
Totally...
I learned on my own and to this day i can drive any vehicle in the road including a semi. The drivers ed I took back in 1970 and I learned on big ole Pontiac Catalina that had 2 keys for the ignition and the trunk and door locks. All they showed us In drivers ed was the rules of the road, since every vehicle is different you learned on the fly how to drive them. I could drive a 3 on the tree and a 4 on the floor when i was 14 years old self tought on my fathers vehicles and a vehicle my older brother go me in 1970 a 1959 VW bug with a 4 speed 6 volt electric system. I’ve changed flat tires that had lug nuts, and wheel studs.
I bought a used Dodge Caravan in Chicago, and it got dark before I made it home. I had to stop at a gas station and ask people if they could guess/intuit how to turn on the headlights,
In our design-trumps-function world, hiding the on-off switch is now de rigeur, to preserve the beauty and/or aerodynamics of household appliances.
Why does one exchange represents everyone? It sounds like you're saying you the "smartest" of them all is the only one that knows how to drive a car, and one person not knowing as much as you and that automatically means everyone does not know how to drive. The arrogance in this statement.
Your poor grammar aside, I used this one interaction as an example. I used only this one example to save space and time for those who have reading comprehension problems or a short attention span. I’m not expecting people to know everything about their vehicle. I hope licensed drivers would at least know how to properly use the vehicle’s transmission, align mirrors, how to turn on the headlights, how to turn on the hazard or flashing lights, when they should NOT be using their high beams, how to set the climate control to decoy or de-ice the windows, how and when to use turn signals, how and when to engage the parking brake, and to not use the phone while driving nor any of those other distractions. If you don’t know these things then you should surrender your driver’s license and go back to class.
I bought a used Dodge Caravan in Chicago, and it got dark before I made it home. I had to stop at a gas station and ask people if they could guess/intuit how to turn on the headlights,
In our design-trumps-function world, hiding the on-off switch is now de rigeur, to preserve the beauty and/or aerodynamics of household appliances.
Look at the owners manual
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