Cause and effect....gas prices/new drivers (details)?

Question

With the ever soaring price of fuel, I do not believe the new drivers coming out of High Schools every year are going to have very much practice time behind the wheel anymore.

I believe this is going to lead to an entire generation of children who are pretty bad drivers (practice makes perfect). Of course this will also have the effect of raising the insurance rates of everyone as accident rates go up.

I also think that cars of the future will come with more "idiot" controls (which have actually made accidents go up, not down).

Things like winshield wipers that come on when it rains, buzzers than sound when your too close to another vehicle, seatbelts that buckle for you, and cars that can park themselves.

Do you see anymore cause and effects that are along the above lines of thinking?

Answer 1

Ah, I don't know.  Do you have a particular concern about this?  Everyone knows that teenagers are idiots (its just biochemical). I was one once you know.  I survived all the, um, situations I was presented with and so will yours too.  I said, we can't have kids, the world is different now.  She said, each generation has its own challenges and will find its own solutions.  Practically though, don't your kids drive a tractor?  I drove a tractor, then a jeep, a bicycle everywhere, a go-cart, a mini bike,a honda 175 etc., a 10 speed bike to Florida, a pickup truck, a 900 kawasaki, a straight job, a delivery van...  Smashed a bunch, crashed a bunch, always kept my wits and nobody got hurt, knock on wood.  Now I drive an Echo with some finesse and get 40 mpg in the suburbs.  

If I had to pick one thing, I think I learned the most from the bicycle.

Answer 2

These are very interesting points.   I honestly believe teen drivers have been terrible for about the past decade.   I've been driving for almost 30 years now and we weren't much better, though we were better.   It used to be that young guys were the worst;  now its all of them.

You're right on the idiot controls too.  Soon the cars will be driving us.

To the poster who said the following:

"no body relly cares soo omg be quiet"

We do care actually.   Especially about good spelling.

Answer 3

I think that your theory is slightly far-fetched, but very well thought out.

Soaring gas prices has changed that auto market in the last several years.

Less Ford F350's, Mustangs, Hummers, Chevy Tahoes etc are being sold. Hondas and Hybrids are being sold just as fast as they are manufactured. In order to compete with the demand, other car manufacturers are starting to produce other fuel efficient cars.

We are going to see a wave of affordable, fuel efficient cars that will eventually take over the market to help keep driving affordable.

There are too many cities in the US that aren't big enough to support a decent public transportation system, and people will still need to work... Cars will be extremely necessary here for a very long time. Especially in the mid-west.

There is no way that high gas prices will stop people from driving. We will simply find a different solution.

Answer 4

no i agree with you ha ha

Answer 5

You don't have any evidence that those new inventions have actually made accident go up. how can a beeping sound cause an accident?

however you are right about new drivers not getting much practice, not to mention, how is a high school kid going to afford gas on 6 dollars an hour dishwashing?? I know a kid who works and pays for gas...how is that supposed work out for the kid??? these gas prices are ******* bullshit, why don't they ******* do something about them?? what the ****. **** whoever is responsible.

Answer 6

Actually, I kinda like the interactive maps. As often as I've gotten lost, that kind of thing should save me a lot of gas.

But fuel prices are only spiking. Once we're using ethanol, hydrogen, and electric vehicles, demand will drop along with the price of oil. And once zero point motors become common, electric cars will make driving popular again

Answer 7

good grief...buy motorscooters then...they go 35mph only

Answer 8

I see our mode of travel transforming completely. Whether it's a new type of fuel, or something along the lines of mass transit. Things are going to change drastically over the next decade.

Answer 9

Yes,

I through well tossed  the truck keys to one of my teenagers giving him one of the trucks and was shocked to hear him say but mom gas and insurance is so expensive!

Heck as a kid I would of loved a truck/car given to me!

I told him if he wants to visit his friend in california you best get out there......

What concerns me is these micro chips in cars these days, which run all the gadgets, this chip goes out and it ruins the whole vehicle.



Ya try to idiot prof something and more idiots will be born!!

Answer 10

get rid of cell phones and text message in the car I think that is last thing a new driver needs to be doing

Answer 11

With decreased driving, and with joy-riding unaffordable, accidents will go down and the cost of insurance with them.

In the long-run, new drivers my get the opportunity to practice in simulators -- but that won't help current drivers.  But no one in my family has reduced miles due to gas prices.  We only drive when we need to anyhow.  When my sons were learning to drive, they drove places we needed to go mostly.   There were only about three times each that they went driving for practice.  That's maybe an extra 300 miles, roughly $30 in gas over 6-months.

We'll see more people working from home, or living closer to work.  More public transportation.  Things will change but many people will like the changes.  (Once people learn how easy it is to commute by bus or train they don't usually go back to driving in commute traffic.)

Answer 12

Gas prices are being raised because the economy in the U.S. is doing bad.  The Canada dollar used to be of lower worth than the U.S. dollar, but now the U.S. dollar is worth lower than the Canadian dollar.  So now everything in the U.S. is being raised and other bad things have happened, so they had to raise gas prices too...unfortunately...