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quayzar
11/13/09

In reply to Hippie Legislators Try Adding Green Lessons To Drivers Ed
You know what would be even better. If they taught the damn kids how to drive. In the past two weeks I was rear-ended and was hit by a hit and run driver. If I see someone use a turn signal I am shocked and going over the lines have become a pastime.

That said I am still in favour of the legislation just add a "learn to drive well" amendment. People against this must not note the fact that if they are learning to recycle vehicle parts and fluids they are actually able to work on their own cars.
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bzr
11/13/09

In reply to Hippie Legislators Try Adding Green Lessons To Drivers Ed
We're teaching kids to take public transportation while they're in Driver's Ed? That's like going to Blockbuster to rent a movie and being told to read a book. #michigan
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dougdirac
11/13/09

@bzr: Probably a good idea in both cases. #michigan
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Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
11/13/09

@bzr: Blockbuster? What's that? #michigan
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tempesjo
11/13/09

In reply to Hippie Legislators Try Adding Green Lessons To Drivers Ed
And while they're at it, they might as well teach the teens about the virtues of abstinence as well.
I'm all for carpooling, public transportation and fuel efficiency. But really, don't a lot of teens already know about the importance of carpooling? If you want to go to the movies or the roller rink or the soda shop, you pile in with the friend who has the car. Public transportation is an option if you're going somewhere where nobody will see you.
I'm not sure that the fuel efficiency lesson is relevant. If teens today are anything like I was, total fuel consumed will likely be the same regardless of what kind of car they have. If they have enough money for 2 gallons of gas, they'll drive 30 miles in their '85 Grand Prix or 80 miles in their '92 Civic.
As for recycling parts and fluids, for my first car the parts were available for pick up on the roadside, and the fluids were either given back to mother nature in clouds of smoke or in a trail of drips. #michigan
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Joe Valasek
11/13/09

In reply to Hippie Legislators Try Adding Green Lessons To Drivers Ed
Let the hippies ride the bus, and let the instructors teach the hippies how to ride the bus.

The true drivers among them will find a way to drive, and there'll be more room on the roads with all the hippies on buses.

Viva la Gasoline! #michigan
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rev_junkie
11/13/09

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Oh, great, make Driver's Ed more boring. First the 20-year old VHS lessons, driving around in column-shifted Taurus, and now greenwashing. Thank God I'm in college. #michigan
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snapoversteer 'bout to get told
11/13/09

@rev_junkie: Oh crap! My driver's ed films were actual films. On 16mm (look it up, junior). And they were made in the '60s. And we liked it that way. Get off my lawn. #michigan
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AmishJohn
11/13/09

@snapoversteer 'bout to get told: My driver's ed courses included horseshoe maintenance and proper bridling. Ya whippersnapper. #michigan
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Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe)
11/13/09

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I'd rather the recycling bit be included in shop classes. Then maybe people would stop using motor oil to try to get rid of those stumps out by the 'crick'. The rest of it doesn't belong in a curriculum that is designed to make the roads safer for everyone but most especially FOR THE CHILDREN!!! :D (Those precious little snowflakes.) #michigan
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pauljones
11/13/09

@Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe): Shop class?

Dude, that's old school right there.

Now they call it study skills class, and teach you no significant skills or useful trade whatsoever.

Welcome to Gen Y and the iGen. #michigan
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Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe)
11/13/09

@pauljones: Study skills class? Wow... I'd think that was where you learn how to take notes, pay attention and "learn how to read good".

Clearly it's been a while since my public education days. #michigan
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pauljones
11/13/09

@Racin_G73 - dirt track legend (some day ... maybe): All they do now in study skills is text each other.

The days of shop class are dead. Even wood shop is dead, and ceramics is barely holding on. #michigan
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Alfisted
11/13/09

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Fine. I suggest that "the significance of the auto industry to the local economy" be added to the Michigan state history curriculum - and that these two sit through it before proposing any more legislation. #michigan
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bmoreDLJ
11/13/09

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Piffle. Let's no overload the poor 16-year-olds' brains, or rather nerve bundles. They've got enough on their minds, like DJ Hero, Rock Band...DJ Rock Band...Guitar Hero...crabcore... #michigan
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dolo54 blows minds and blows engines!
11/13/09

@bmoreDLJ: I suspect 'crabcore' is a Baltimore only type of thing. #michigan
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scroggzilla raids again
11/13/09

In reply to Hippie Legislators Try Adding Green Lessons To Drivers Ed

Climb a Mountain.
Drive a Hybrid.
Fly High, Lesbian Seagull. #michigan
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Steve_in_NC
11/13/09

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This is all you need to move about in peace with Gaia. #michigan
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snapoversteer 'bout to get told
11/13/09

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Hey, it can't be any less useful than the curriculum in my driver's ed program, which as far as I can remember, was entirely composed of lessons in how to be bored witless and avoid riding in the car with the smelly kid. #michigan
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Ash78, cube farmer
11/13/09

In reply to Hippie Legislators Try Adding Green Lessons To Drivers Ed
If it's yellow, brakes are mellow.
If it's brown, bleed it down.

(does not apply to ATE SuperBlue brake fluid) #michigan
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Ben Wojdyla
11/13/09

@Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master: We used that stuff on our LeMons Celica, talk about awesome. #michigan
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pauljones
11/13/09

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Dammit, stop giving California ideas! #michigan
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twitchykun(level 10 Jalop-Knight)
11/13/09

In reply to Hippie Legislators Try Adding Green Lessons To Drivers Ed
screw that, you can get your driver's education right here on Jalopnik. #michigan
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twitchykun(level 10 Jalop-Knight)
11/13/09

@twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight):

I've even got my lesson plan set up:

Professor Wes - Racing techniques against old dudes in CTS-V's 101
Professor Murilee - Health 101
Professor Ray - Dragon Ed 101 #michigan
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twitchykun(level 10 Jalop-Knight)
11/13/09

@twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight):

Professor Ray's also the dean of students(kinda like Mr. Belding but with more hair)
Professor Ben's the assistant dean, who always gets into hijinks with Murilee and Wes... #michigan
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Iron-Balls Minardi
11/10/09

In reply to If Loving Vanillaroma Is Wrong, We Don't Wanna Be Right
Illinois, huh?
This thing is f*cking golden. #airfreshener
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Alfisted
11/10/09

@Iron-Balls Minardi: They've got this forward visibility and it's f*cking golden. They're not going to just give it away. #airfreshener
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