https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/1igqp6q/adults_taking_drivers_training/
created by IThinkIThinkThings on 03/02/2025 at 14:47 UTC
18 upvotes, 10 top-level comments (showing 10)
With the amount of horrible drivers around here, I think this is an amazing idea. I'm also with the belief a class should be required in high school for all students before they turn 16, whether they get their license at 16 or 19. And how about renewal of driver's licenses every 10 years and requiring a written test to be passed? There are new laws enacted yearly, and a refresher of current laws would be good for everyone.
Comment by insanewriters at 03/02/2025 at 15:35 UTC
21 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You seem very optimistic about the percentage of drivers who are actually licensed.
Comment by kicker7744 at 03/02/2025 at 15:36 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
 requiring a written test to be passed?
Anyone can pass a test. Everyone knows it's the law to use your signals, not use your brights vs. oncoming traffic and stop at a red light.
Anyone can do these things with an examiner sitting next to them.
The problem comes policing them when they don't bother to do these things when they're left alone.
Comment by reeve11 at 03/02/2025 at 14:51 UTC
11 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I'm more concerned about the drivers at the other end of the age spectrum. Looking at you lady who got out of her car to use a walker going into Kroger.
Comment by rudmad at 03/02/2025 at 16:12 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How about we stop using cars for every single fucking thing.
Comment by bmli19 at 03/02/2025 at 16:32 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Tell the buildings to stop running out in front of cars.
Comment by Nice_Satisfaction651 at 03/02/2025 at 15:33 UTC
1 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It's a very carbrained idea to require every high schooler to get a driver's license. It's indoctrination. The car and oil lobbies would love it.
That said, I am 100% for stricter licensing requirements. Make the driving tests harder and require driving tests EVERY TIME licenses are renewed. Fail, you go back to driving school, no exceptions.
Comment by ban_ana__ at 03/02/2025 at 17:31 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I fully support this. But the issue is that this idea makes SENSE. We aren't really doing that in Ohio right now...
Comment by look_ima_frog at 03/02/2025 at 17:36 UTC
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I think that there should be actual training for drivers (young, old, anything in between) that actually puts them in a variety of situations where they can be challenged. I have no idea why there is not a common simulation platform for drivers. With all of the technology we have, you should be able to use a system where you can get into a driving simulator and be taken through a variety of situations and actually TRAIN to handle them.
Some situations could be "left turn on yellow", "other driver runs a stop sign", "heavy snow", etc. Rather than showing people the basics and hoping that if faced with a dangerous situation that their instincts will be good enough to save them, actually train them.
There is so much good that could come of this. You could have something that annotates or narrates as you do things, train out a variety of bad habits (such as people who ride their brakes all the time without actually slowing down). This way, rather than just being good long enough to pass a test, you are subjected to the right way to do things and it now becomes the normal behavior.
You want to take more simulations, maybe that further discounts insurance. Instead of making overwrought systems in our cars that will see for us, alert us, brake for us, swerve for us, etc. use that technology to simply raise the standard of driver skill.
My kids just went through drivers ed, and if they had to spend even 1/3 of that road time in a simulator, I think it would be extremely beneficial. We put pilots in sims, why not drivers?
Comment by twbassist at 03/02/2025 at 18:34 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
We should be making things easier. I don't think most people *want* to commute, but people are forced to (looking at full time RTO from companies who have no need to beyond tax implications or general authoritarianism), or people are forced to find work wherever they can within an area but can't move to live there.
If we do something like this, people who are forced to drive in order to afford to live will now have an added burden. If this is done in conjunction with different mass transit or other things (like reducing the need to work through elimination of bullshit jobs, implementing WFH for all jobs that can, etc), then we might have something that doesn't lay the burden on people just trying to live.
Comment by RiotNrrrd_ at 03/02/2025 at 15:13 UTC
1 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I've said for years that drivers should be required to pass a refresher test every 8 years or so. The state would get revenue for the testing fee and we would hopefully have more informed drivers on the road.