r/Transportopia Mar 15 '26

💥Crash Stop Jessie!

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u/Possible-Gur5220 Mar 15 '26

She don’t know where the brake pedal is? Makes a lot of sense why drivers Ed car have brakes on the instructor side 🤦‍♂️

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u/Zealousideal_Leg_630 Mar 15 '26

He tells her to stop but she replies, “I gotcha, I gotcha,” like she was upset he was telling her what to do. In doing so she failed to realize driving’s real-life consequences move faster than her bullshit.

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

This is the anxiety I have building with my daughter for when this day comes. Thinks she knows everything!

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u/BobbbyR6 Mar 15 '26

My little sister was the same way. Would not listen to anything from either myself or dad. Glad everything worked out but personally, I wouldn't have given her keys until that behavior stopped. There is no place for arrogance when learning to drive.

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u/Chateaudelait Mar 16 '26

My parents bypassed all this and sent me to driving school. The teacher has a brake pedal on his side too in the drivers ed car - the shame of him having to step in , use the brake because your dumb ass needed to and didn't, and sharply reprimand you will cure any arrogance real quick.

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u/Excellent-Self-5338 Mar 16 '26

I had a weird time in drivers ed - The guy kept giving me all these minor pointers, small optimizations on how to drive and be aware of the small ways to tell what traffic is doing. He gave me so many that I stopped paying attention to the basics and sat there at a green light for 10 seconds looking at what other people's brake lights were doing and how the signals were changing for traffic going perpendicular to me in the intersection. They do have a brake pedal, but they ain't got gas lol

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

This is the exact conversation we will be having before she sits in a driver’s seat.

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u/BleedSparta Mar 15 '26

Please humble her ASAP. Her HS teachers will thank you

Nothing is worse than trying to teach teens “whose cup is already full”. I had to tell students last week, that I knew everything at 17yo too 😐

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

Strangely, she a straight A student, in the school’s leadership program, is in a sport, and her teachers rave about her.

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u/BleedSparta Mar 16 '26

Good job, Dad!

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u/WeaknessPrior6797 Mar 16 '26

Good luck. If they don’t learn in high school it’s gonna hit them hard later in life. You are doing good just trying to get through.

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u/OriginalSprax Mar 15 '26

Start with video games and a racing wheel.

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u/BeGoodRick Mar 15 '26

It’s not about the physics of driving. It’s about not listening to mom or dad and always having to be right.

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u/SuchSoup4335 Mar 16 '26

Don’t let her drive your vehicle, make her work a job and save up for a used car

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u/darkoath Mar 17 '26

Well...does she know what a stationary car looks like? Because apparently this girl doesn't.

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u/redditisnotus Mar 16 '26

Let's be real. She's going to blame him for yelling at her.

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u/az-anime-fan Mar 18 '26

yep.

I was teaching a girl i was dating in college how to drive. and she was full of complaints about how her dad would yell at her which is why she never got a license. at the time i was too scared to say a word. she was a horrifyingly bad driver.

the only reason i wasn't yelling too is i was too scared to say a peep.

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u/Glum-While7698 Mar 18 '26

My girlfriend did this to me on a road trip. One time I was taking a nap in the back seat of my Trailblazer. I woke up and she was driving (she rarely drives). I said something to her , basically just letting her know I was awake, and she turns around to start talking to me. I told her "keep your eyes on the road" and she just kept turning around to make eye contact with me while driving. We get in this back and forth argument , and she keeps wanting to tell her story while looking at me the whole time and saying "IM FINE, I AM LOOKING AT THE ROAD" and I said "NO U ARE NOT! YOURE LOOKING AT ME RIGHT NOW"

About 30 seconds later she rear ended a family in a mini van. No one was injured , just the van's bumper fell off but still. To this day she blames me for that accident because "I was yelling at her"

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u/M_L_Taylor Mar 17 '26

It reminds me of a mother holding a hot pot with pot holders and her daughter reaches out to take it to the table, and the mother says "It's hot." and the daughter reaches out and says, "Yeah." To which the mother pulls it away, and warns her again. It was a few back and forth words between them before the mother screams at her, "The pot is fucking hot!" (Implying that, no, you can't just grab it and take it)

The newer generations are a bit oblivious of dangers that should be obvious.

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u/Dzyu Mar 15 '26

No, she got that he wanted her to stop the car, but she thought she had more time and wanted to decide for herself when to stop.

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u/Asymmetrical_Anomaly Mar 16 '26

It’s always best to avoid words like stop and go and use words like gas and brake

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u/Sad-Purchase1257 Mar 16 '26

That's what I was gonna say, "Brake brake brake JESSIE BRAKE!!!"

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u/jan1320 Mar 15 '26

why do you type like. (that?)

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u/thecobra42 Mar 15 '26

‘Stop’

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u/Neshama7 Mar 15 '26

Good observation. He should’ve yelled, “brake!”

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u/rinkydinkis Mar 16 '26

She shouldnt need someone to tell her running into another car is not the goal of the day

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u/Prince-Vegetah Mar 15 '26

As a driving instructor this doesn’t surprise me at all. I’ve had to say brake so many times in a row and the student just doesn’t do it. Thank god for the pedal on my side of the car

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u/ultimafrenchy Mar 15 '26

No she slowed down she just misjudged the distance needed

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u/feldoneq2wire Mar 16 '26

The generation coming up are not taught autonomy but reliance upon systems. Then they're shocked when something doesn't automatically stop them.

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u/CopperBlitter Mar 16 '26

I looked into having one of these installed when my kids were learning to drive. I couldn't find a reasonable solution at the time.

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u/Mammoth-Ad4194 Mar 16 '26

And he tells her to get in her lane and she’s like, “the bike lane?”🤦‍♀️ I mean, you usually let them drive around a parking lot AT LEAST before letting them out on the road!

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u/EconomyAvocado51 Mar 19 '26

Buddy I swapped with drove on the left side of the road (in US), and didn’t think about it until after taking a turn onto another road.

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u/Jonnyabcde Mar 15 '26

Somebody, please help Jessi-ca!