Was: Re: Audi = stupid? ....plus WRX drive Is: Teenager First Car

[Brendan]

On Friday 18 January 2008, Steve Marinello wrote:
> Huw Powell wrote:
> > Steve Marinello wrote:
> >> ...except that unexciting can also = never really learning how to
> >> drive = VERY unsafe in dynamic, real world situations
> >
> > Why does a car have to be "exciting" for one to learn how to drive
> > properly?  I don't see that your conclusion follows from your premise.
> >
> > Reminds me of the 12/23 one year I came upon two teenagers in one of
> > their mom's BMW.  The skid marks went all the way up a hill in the
> > wrong lane, back to the right, to the car which was all tangled up in
> > trees.
> >
> > (Luckily they were mostly just shaken up)
> >
> > It's hard to do that in a "boring" car.
>
> I disagree.  I think it's easier to have happen in a boring car that
> you're trying to push.  It might not feel as exciting in the boring car,

You've already set up a straw-man here.
Drivers shouldn't push a car until they know how to push a car...If the kid 
doesn't meet that criteria, get him a bike and a helmet and keep him from 
pushing his car into my lane.