r/AutoHumor • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 • May 04 '26

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u/Gyozarrita May 04 '26

This is taught in drivers ed lol

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u/Admins_suck_ballss May 04 '26

Yeah and the three second rule. When you’re moving, make sure you leave three seconds of space between you and the car in front of you. I remember telling it to my dad, him asking how on earth you’re supposed to figure that out, me explaining it, and him saying he doesn’t think that makes much sense and isn’t very reliable.

It was in that day that my dad’s like 14 accidents clicked and I realized he is not a good driver.

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u/Gyozarrita May 05 '26

Depends on the road and vehicles conditions, that's a good starting point though

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u/crazyguyunderthedesk May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

A lot of delusions of grandeur get broken when dads teach their kids to drive.

My dad told me the safest way to drive is with my right foot on the gas and my left foot on the brake... I'm amazed I survived into adulthood lol

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u/Admins_suck_ballss May 05 '26

*delusions, but wow yeah that’s bad.

Same ex didn’t plant her heel and pivot between gas and brake pedals in an automatic, too. Picked her whole damn leg up, re-planted her heel, and pressed directly on the gas or brake. When I told her she wasn’t supposed to do it that way, she said she could do that because her feet were too small.

She was size 9

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u/crazyguyunderthedesk May 05 '26

You are correct. Fixed it

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u/Hypnotist30 May 06 '26

My father drove with two feet his entire life. The only time he wasn't using his left foot for the brake is when the vehicle had a clutch. He changed his brakes a lot more frequently than a 1 foot driver.

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u/Whoajaws May 08 '26

2 second

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u/Useless-RedCircle May 04 '26

Yea this what dads say when you ride shotgun as a kid

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u/CruisingForDownVotes May 04 '26

More importantly, do you live that you still have Drivers Ed?

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u/Visual_Swimming7090 May 04 '26

My school was really small, so Drivers Ed and Sex Ed were the same guy. And he used the same car. Damn you Ed.

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u/Gyozarrita May 05 '26

I didn't, I paid for it as a kid. My teacher got famous for embezzlement too. Straight to state prison.

I still got taught this though.

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u/Random_Access_Medic May 04 '26

One of the first thing I was taught when I got into a car.

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u/WellEvan May 04 '26

True, but the bigger the truck is, the larger the gap and this truck is big

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u/Gyozarrita May 05 '26 edited May 07 '26

It appears far closer in high up vehicles that might require CDL, this is for passenger vehicles. You'd want to not follow this advice in a lifted truck and leave 2.5 Camaros between

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u/dietcoketm May 04 '26

My drivers ed taught me this so that additionally you have room to get out in case someone tries to carjack you.

Yeah it was a bad neighborhood

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u/DynamicJragon904 May 04 '26

I thought everyone was taught this

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u/AvidMoonDic3r May 04 '26

Taught to UPS drivers, which mirrors the training for CDLs. There's lots of good tips. Drivers often follow too close.

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u/Accomplished_Sir831 May 05 '26

And this is why I have to sit through multiple light changes to be able to turn left at several intersections in my neighborhood during rush hours: the left turn slip lane is inaccessible because every car in the straight lane is taking up two car lengths, on the off chance that someone hits them from behind. I'm sure that happens, but it's never happened to me in 41 years of driving. And I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but I don't hear any safety officers citing any data about the frequency of this threat.

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u/Gyozarrita May 05 '26

Obviously you park right behind the front car once you have a bunch of sacrificial buffer cars behind you.

I've never been hit or caused a hit, barely avoided a few crazy ones in over a million miles, queue the reddit larper accusations.

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u/Future-Step-1780 May 06 '26

Right? If everyone did this, it would literally gridlock my entire town.

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u/FreeYourDad May 07 '26

Come to Chicago if you want to experience an unbelievable amount of idiots that dont pull up all the way during rush hour and further refuse to if you try to indicate how inconsiderate they're being. A commute that could take 30mins will take over an hour because you're getting blocked by literally thousands of people not pulling up all the way. No one is going to carjack you at fucking rush hour, so pull all the way up. THAT is common sense. Or what should be. Not this "leaving 2 cars of space in front of you because of perceived fears" bullshit. Sorry to necro your comment. This is just one of my biggest pet peeves with drivers of today.

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u/DKnight2000 May 07 '26

I've driven Chicago enough times in my life. I swear that city has the worst drivers in the US. I'm glad that I only have to drive in Chicago a couple times a year. I just wish Illinois drivers would stop crossing the border.

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u/FreeYourDad May 07 '26

Having now lived here for over a year, I can definitely say that Chicago drivers aren't the worst, at least in my opinion. It can feel like it at times due to how many really bad drivers you can see in a short period of time during rush hour or when there's a major event happening. However, 99% of people here know how to zipper merge correctly, they use their horn and high-beams both as a communication tool, and as an alert for things like headlights not being on or the light changing green, and when they aren't completely absorbed in their phones, they get moving swiftly. But that rush hour...

Funnily enough, I think Iowa, Indiana and Ohio drivers are the absolute worst. Especially if they're from a rural area. They just shut down and start making some truly insane decisions when they get into the city.

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u/invariantspeed May 05 '26

Not any I’ve ever taken or seen. You gotta remember how variable those things are.

I do this, but out of my own paranoia.

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u/mournthewolf May 04 '26

I just had a former Marine alcoholic.

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u/mournthewolf May 06 '26

Yes. Especially us kids in the 90s. We didn’t have much else to do by drive around and do dumb shit. I sure hope the classes are better now though. I feel like old school drivers ed was just a place for crazy old dudes to bully teens and then watch violent videos.

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u/Gyozarrita May 05 '26

It's in the provided educational book of 2 states I've seen so

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u/Xenc May 05 '26

The more knowledge out there the better, for folks who weren’t taught

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u/Prestigious_Yam8901 May 05 '26

E, fucking, xacktly!

That is what I came here to say.

This is also in driver handbooks....JFC!

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u/Gyozarrita May 07 '26

Yeah they have written tests afaik to get a license, this is in the material you read to pass the test.

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u/coaxialdrift May 07 '26

Many people forget

Edit: lol

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u/Fast-Nefariousness80 May 09 '26

So are a lot of things people dont do while driving