Speed limits
The speed limit on the straight desolate paved road that goes past our place is 80 km/hr. The people who use the road drive whatever speed they please and for the most part it works fine ….. until you...
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Bumpyroad wrote:toedtoes wrote:
My Mom wouldn't let us drive home after getting our permits or licenses. Her observations showed a lot of kids getting into accidents on those two days - so she removed them from the equation.
I can certainly agree on not letting a kid drive solo. I remember some states restricting driving with two young drivers. If one kid has an IQ of 100 and another gets in with an IQ of 100 the combined IQ would total out to about 60.
bumpy
My Mom didn't let us drive on those two days period. Even if she or my dad were in the car. She said too many of her friends let their kids drive home from taking the test and they got into accidents. She felt it was "tempting fate" to drive after the test.
She also made us wait until we were 18 to get our licenses. Hsr excuse was that by waiting we didn't have to take driver ed (which at that time was not offered by the school nor was free). The truth is that it saved her two years of headaches and high insurance premiums.
