I put 30k miles on my car in 6 months, one factor that led to my receiving 3 moving violations (one of which was a mea culpa, two of which were for going not-so-fast in a 55 and a 60 = revenue for Floyd County and the city of Peru).
OK, so now I’m doing the course on www.indianadriver.com. This is what I just learned:
Subconscious mind? Glad that my tutors in vehicle safety are either Freudians or Jungians. :rolleyes:
Well, okay, maybe that’s a silly way to put it. What they probably meant was good procedural memory so that drivers are able to react correctly and reflexively when presented with a dangerous situation–such that a conscious decisionmaking process would be unnecessary.
But you know, subconscious is probably more easily understood so there you go.
More importantly, why does everyone in Indiana drive 10 under the speed limit? I’M FROM CHICAGO GODDAMMIT, MOVE OR BE KILLED!
Glad that this content was tailored for Indiana. :rolleyes:
Exactly 16?!
Huh? :rolleyes:
A little luck? Oh dear. My dice rolls are always terrible. I hate to imagine a critical failure.
:rolleyes:
Yeah, you should DEFINITELY not put your car where there is already another car, grizzly bear, or water tower.
Yeah, let’s pray you never get a natural 1.
Having driven in Indiana after learning to drive and driving for ten years in Chicagoland, the one thing you need to know about driving in Indiana is to never, ever use your turn signal to signal a lane change. Hoosiers take it as a personal challenge. They do whatever they can to prevent you from actually turning. Sure some assholes do this in Chicagoland, but more don’t, either ignoring it, or actually moving to accomdate the lane change. Not in Indiana, even small town Indiana.
See, I would say it was just the opposite. In Chicago, turning on your turn signal is a WARNING - a sign saying, “look guys, I’m changing lanes whether you’re there or not.” In Indiana, it’s a mild wave saying, “I might be changing lanes sometime this century and would appreciate if you got out of my way when you feel like it.”
But the summer after I learned to drive in Indiana I spent a summer in New York/Connecticut and shortly thereafter spent 2 years in Detroit. I can adapt my driving style to just about ANYWHERE. (Except for those here who decide that a mild rain is the same as 6 inches of snow and drive accordingly.)
I agree with Indyellen. Plus, at least I occasionally see proper turn signal usage in Indiana. Here in Chicago, I let out a yelp of joy when I actually see somebody use the turn signal at all or not after they have already entered the lane they plan to turn into. Also, it seems Indianans have grasped the concept that, unless you are passing, you should be in the right lane. There’s many things I don’t particularly like about Indiana, but the driving habits of its citizenry is not one of them.
Ah, Hoosier drivers. They sure make my commute interesting. Yeah, yeah, confirmation bias and all that–I still say that they don’t look when changing lanes, in fact, they are pretty much oblivious to any other drivers out there. We used to joke about their license plate slogan from years back : Wander. All the Hoosiers had wandered into IL and needed to be rounded up.
Now, for me, it’s historically Ohio drivers who go 54 on the interstate–just in case that radar gun isn’t synched with their speedometer. Soooo aggravating. Especially when the limit is 65…
I had to take a Transactional Analysis Approach to driving when I was 18 and blew a stop sign (in front of a cop–stupid). Instead of Ego, Superego and Id, it was Parent, Adult and Child or some such. It engendered a lot of :rolleyes: in my head, but the ticket was expunged, so it was worth it.
That’s interesting. My brother was raised here and moved to Chicago. He told me not to signal a lane change in Chicago. “They take it as a sign of weakness, and they’ll cut you off in a heartbeat.” :eek:
Huh, so you guys have automobiles out that way now.
Well, presumably there aren’t an awful lot of 15-year old drivers.
82% does seem a tad high, though.
That was a typo. It was meant to say:
You can hardly blame the poor little tykes for their driving mistakes.
I live in Indiana and have for several years now. I have also lived in and around large metro areas (Wash DC, Dallas/Fort Worth, etc) and I have to say in my experience, that the more urbanized and traffic-congested the area becomes, the more hostile and/or clueless the drivers are.
And what’s this “Indiana drivers are slow” shit? The speed limit here on interstates is 70, and I regularly do 80. See, you have to know how to speed. Always use your signals. Don’t drive recklessly. Don’t hang out alone in the left lane for extended periods while speeding. Wear your seatbelt. Slow down when you see cops and show them the respect that they know you see them there.
And as for the OP and the quotes from that Indiana driver education…that’s some wacky shit right there. Who wrote that inane garbage?
FYI, the state police have just acquired a small group of new hotrod Mustangs, unmarked. That’s something else to watch for in your mirrors. In most of Indiana, 10 mph over the speed limit is not enough to get a ticket. In Chesterfield, though, things are different. They’re proud of their reputation as a speed trap.
Fortunately where I live, they still drive the same, ugly, readily identifiable State Trooper cars, although I’m sure that they have some of those Mustangs too, as I live very near a middlingly large-ish city (Cincinnati).