things i learned at traffic school.
Ok, so I got a ridiculous red light ticket in San Mateo (red light cameras are actually one of the topics that we frequently cover at Techdirt, ironically), and as a result, I had to pay a crazy ridiculous fine AND take traffic school to get the point off my license. I haven’t had a traffic violation (knock on wood) since 1997, so this kinda pissed me off to ruin over a decade of good driving.
Anyway, I just finished traffic school, and I thought I’d share with everyone an example of the quality things that I learned today that will SURELY make me a better driver.
Which of the following is an unlikely alternative to driving?
Driving steadily can improve your gas mileage by as much as ___ miles per gallon.
It is your responsibility to ______ and protect the environment you enjoy.
Uh yah.. awesome. Well, I sure do feel like a better driver now, don’t you?
September 29th, 2010 at 11:54 am
God, I just completed this same course. I was going nuts trying to answer their niggling statistical questions, and Googling helped me get a couple of answers I needed from your site. I know that sounds like cheating. Hiding behind the bushes and zapping an otherwise lawful driver making a 5 mph California Rolling Stop at an empty intersection, like a certain cop I could mention–that’s cheating!
October 4th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
If __________ Americans used public transportation daily, carbon monoxide pollution would decrease by more than all the emissions from the entire chemical manufacturing industry and all metal processing plants in the U.S.