Subj : Re: smartphone for ui dif
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Dec 13 2025 07:50:01

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni> My high school didn't have auto shop when I was there.  And my high
 Ni> school didn't offer driving classes either..

 We signed my daughter up for private lessons. She'll miss the
 experience of those pathetic "driving simulators" where you had a
 steering wheel with an automatic transmission, lights and signals
 stalks, pedals rear view mirrors and seat belts. They'd play a movie at
 the front of the classroom of a car driving and you'd have to mimic
 what you'd do to match the movie - signal, brake, turn the wheel hand
 over hand, look over your shoulder, etc.

 Then, there was RED ASPHALT, the movie that was pretty much just
 teenaged kids in car wrecks to scare us straight.

 Ni> Cars are definitely more complicated than they used to be.  But even
 Ni> now, you can do things like change spark plugs, maybe swap out a sensor
 Ni> here & there, etc..  It might still be useful to have a shop class in
 Ni> high school that would teach those things, as well as how to change oil
 Ni> in a car (especially with ones that use a canister filter).  But the
 Ni> car landscape is changing too, with electric vehicles on the market..

 Everyone needs to learn to change fluids, change a tire (or use
 fix-a-flat) and do basic maintenance.


 
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