Comment on Wear your seatbelt
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 hours agoWhen I was doing my driving licence, here it’s mandatory to visit a a slick course before you get your licence. In summer it’s soap and oil or in the winter its ice and water.
Anyway, they had this tiny rig. A car seat, but it’s on a rail, but the rail is only some 1m-1.5m (3-5ft) long, and on like a 5-15° angle, but it simulates a dead stop at like 10-20km/h or smth kinda low. And even that was pretty brutal.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
That sounds wonderful. With the amount of total morons on the road today, this needs to be implemented in every US state.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Having seen some videos of North Americans (sans some Alaskans and Canadians) driving in snow, I wholeheartedly agree.
This is gonna come off as racist and sexist, but anyway, the day I was on the track, during winter, there was three of us in the car + the teacher. Me, my mate and a muslim woman who hadn’t lived in Finland for too long, and was from a theocratic and patriarchic society. When it was her turn, and the teacher eventually pulled the handbrake just to simulate her losing control… she let go of the wheel, placed her hands on her eyes and started screaming. But she got over it by the end of the day, so…
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