What did you or your kids learn in drivers ed?

[Triskeliongirl]

I was shocked to find out we paid good money for the instructor to tell our son "I know they are a pain in the ***, but bicycles are legal vehicles in the state of texas."

[Aggie_Ama]

Trisk- Why am I not surprised?

I took Drivers Ed at a private Austin based school, pre-Lance. I remember a brief discussion about bicycles more in the context of children though. It was lumped in with the slow moving vehicles like horses and tractors (which were common in the county I lived in at the time).

Hehe- I chuckle at the big cars comments. My parents gave me my Nanny's 1986 Cutlass Supreme for my 16th birthday. It was a tank!! I still wonder why I can't park when I had practice with that behemouth.

[silver]

This is part of my desire to become a League of American Bicylists LCI certified instructor. I want to use that as a way to go to these driving schools and the high school and ask to teach a section on bicycle safety.

[Velobambina]

The thing that stands out from Drivers Ed was watching those "Ohio Highway Patrol" films. The ones that showed wrecks--in graphic detail--to scare us from driving like idiots. This was 1979 or so.

Don't think we had any training on how to deal w/cyclists but Western Penna folks are generally courteous. I rode a lot as a kid & teen. My younger brother and I would go on long, long rides (my dad bought us these "English racing" 10 speed road bikes when I was 11 or so---quite an upgrade from the hand-me-down Sears banana bike I had been riding ). Drivers treated us well. That was a different time, though.

[Flybye]

This is part of my desire to become a League of American Bicylists LCI certified instructor. I want to use that as a way to go to these driving schools and the high school and ask to teach a section on bicycle safety.

Yeah!!!! Claps hands!!!