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Wow, that sounds amazing. Growing up in Seattle, the skills we got drilled on were "backing around a corner" and "parallel parking". The latter of which is al
by klyrs 3y ago
Wow, that sounds amazing. Growing up in Seattle, the skills we got drilled on were "backing around a corner" and "parallel parking". The latter of which is always appreciated wherever I go... the former is uniformly met with bafflement. Later in life, I would learn that cherry blossoms are the prettiest form of black ice -- thankfully, that happened after I taught myself to recover a tailspin in a snowy parking lot.
- yencabulator 3y agoTo add some anecdotes on the content of that 8 hours: In the dark, how far ahead can you see a pedestrian without reflector / with reflector at waist level / with reflector at knee level, with/without high beams. How much is that in seconds while driving at inner city / street / highway speeds. I remember an icy bend of the road, and they told us find the maximum speed we can have at a marked line before the bend, and still make that corner staying inside our lane. So, obviously, you'd spin out a couple of times trying to find the threshold. The implied lesson was that the max speed was much lower than most thought it would be. Same thing with the moose evasion: What's the highest speed at which you can still successfully brake, let go of brakes, swerve to one side, miss moose marker, re-orient with road, and start braking again (in real life: not go in a ditch / hit a pole, come to a controlled stop). And after people had gotten a few rounds of "getting the feel for it" on the challenges, they gave us a minimum approach speed for each, and you had to avoid a crash from that speed to pass for the day.