I like driving and every car I've ever owned has had a manual tranmission -- even my current Honda C-RV. I just like being able to control as many aspects of my vehicle as a I can (but I appreciate ABS). I'm a good driver -- last moving violation was for speeding in my VW camper bus -- going 25 mph in a 15 zone, and this was after I criticized the campus cops in the school newspaper. That was in 1977.
But I live in the SF Bay Are, where everyone seems to drive either:
Unfortunately, the state of California no longer requires regular written or driving tests, so we have become the state of drivers that brains forgot.
When I was a cop reporter on the local newspaper, I learned two important thinks from local police
But I live in the SF Bay Are, where everyone seems to drive either:
- by the rules of the country they were born in.
- with the knowledge that the rules only apply to others,
- that whatever they want to do takes precedent over everyone else (why else stop in a roadway, turn on your blinkers and spend 10 minutes texting), and
- they're in a big hurry (yet no one else is).
Unfortunately, the state of California no longer requires regular written or driving tests, so we have become the state of drivers that brains forgot.
When I was a cop reporter on the local newspaper, I learned two important thinks from local police
- It's not against the law to be stupid, and
- It's hard to enforce DWHA -- Driving with head up ass.