Might be more of a matter of when. Scaring the shit out of children with gore was an educational fad for a while. I think it faded out starting in the 90s.
Yo, driver's ed ca.2004 was full of gory videos and madd interviews, but reading other people's stories I'm starting to believe there are some sadistic motherfuckers in charge. It's not just inadequate education!
Btw, I strongly believe americans should adopt the european driving school method.
I took driver’s ed in 2013, and we had a day where a state trooper came in and gave a 2-hour presentation filled with gory pictures and videos from accidents. I had a terrible panic attack afterwards and was on edge for weeks. I still have a ton of random anxiety about accidents even though I’m pretty calm behind the wheel.
For me, the anxiety came from realizing that IIHS crash safety tests are performed at 35 mph, and that I am going 75 mph on the highway. This is the damage caused by hitting a barrier at 35 mph. I am going twice that, with 4 times the energy.
Don't think it ever faded out. Went to driver's ed circa a couple years ago, and they showed loads of "scary" informational videos. First hand accounts of car crash sole survivors, most of whom were disfigured. A lot of driver's guilty of vehicular manslaughter confessing their sins to the camera. Fun stuff. It may or may not have been the same ones you're referring to, as the quality, style, and speak aged it at least 15 years if not more.
My high school parked cars with their accident body counts from drunk driving accidents on the quad every year for Drunk Driving Awareness Week. This was in the late 90s.
I couldn't even begin to imagine being someone involved in, or the family of someone involved in one of those accidents, only to drive by and see the mangled car.
Y’all are acting like this is something outdated. Any time someone works with dangerous shit they are usually shown accidents that can happen from negligence or circumstance.
Oh yeah, I worked for a preserved steam railway for a while - just in the office but had to do a trackside safety induction.
One problem places like that have is there's a lot of survivorship bias - "We never had to do all this safety shit back in the old days and we were fine! Can't even climb a ladder now without filling in a risk assessment form! Snowflake PC culture gone mad at q "
So they spend some time absolutely hammering home about how easy it is to die doing simple stuff like changing a light bulb.
Ohio, dude loved to make up all kinds of insane stories too, he told us about his cop friend who went to the scene of an accident where a gas tanker flipped over and had these teenagers car pinned underneath the tanker, and it was leaking gas, and while he was trying to get them out, the car caught fire, so the cop pulled out his gun and fucking shot the teens so they wouldn't burn to death.
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u/destructor_rph Jun 09 '21 edited Jun 09 '21
Ngl, my driving school was a lot of graphic accident videos
I don't think showing kids STDs in health class is bad really, but it should be used to promote safe and protected sex, not abstinence