“ TECHNIQUES OF DEFENSIVE DRIVING: DRIVING THE EXPRESSWAYS ” 1970s DRIVER'S ED FILM XD48444

[@mjproebstle]

I’m pretty sure I watched this very film in my drivers ED class!! Happy to say i’m still a safe driver 42 years later. Cheers!

[@ScottGrammer]

I'm coming up on 60 years old, and I don't remember a lot of films like this in school. But they did show us the infamous "Blood On The Highway" film about five times.

[@TimEric4d3d3d3]

It's amazing to see so much area near Chicagoland expressways so undeveloped. I love seeing the Edens Expy Westbound Dundee Rd exit and the 1/8 mile sign. It's STILL 1/8 mile ahead of the Eastbound exit.

[@manhoot]

Safe driving is everyone's responsibility

[@trumpsmessage7777]

Excellent video and still relevant.

[@packard5682]

Notice the oil streaks down the center of each lane! Something you don't see now.

[@timacoata7456]

@9:18 beautiful mustang .. anybody notice the pre Jaws sounding music at 9:22/23 depicting the “hot shot “ passing you ! 😂 love these cars

[@TatevossianA]

At 4:36 … Stressed-out driver with a map blocking his view; kids in the backseat with no seatbelts, yelling and bouncing up and down! Ha!!

[@godoftheinterwebz]

today it would be a woman in a giant SUV, talking on the phone, yelling at the kids in the backseat and using the rearview mirror to put on her makeup

[@The_Original_forresttrump]

Should be mandatory for all american drivers to study this.

[@hatuletoh]

"The slow moving driver is one of the biggest menaces on the super highway." We call that the "welcome to Utah" speed. When there are three or four across, blocking all lanes so that no one can pass, we call that the "Utah formation." That's my home state: voted in the top five of worst drivers by state--and occasionally number one--since they started conducting the poll decades ago.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

I call that a "passing conspiracy."

[@scottiancejalampkins2337]

I moved to Utah a few months ago and it’s true! 😅 Everyone blocks all the lanes no matter the speed they go…

[@hatuletoh]

@@scottiancejalampkins2337 For the most part, I find Utah to be a much better place than its reputation would suggest, but the drivers are completely indefensible. Just the other day I got in argument with a middle-aged adult who swore up and down that it was not a requirement to use one's turn signal when turning at a stoplight, because "people can tell you're turning from the lane you're in." And just wait until we get a little snow fall (if we get any this winter). Drivers in Utah have two basic strategies for driving in the snow: the first group, as soon as they see a single flake fall from the sky, drive as if every road is slicker than an oiled sheet of solid ice, and that going over 10 mph means instant death. The second group just pretends snow doesn't exist no matter how much is on the road, and drives the same way they would on a sunny summer afternoon. It's really quite remarkable. Welcome to Utah--good luck out there!

[@hatuletoh]

@@OldsVistaCruiser "Conspiracy" implies a basic level of intelligence and ability to plan...

[@717rocket]

Or Pennsylvania.

[@Madness832]

And sadly, we still see that maneuver (2:55) to this day. Only it's across 3 or 4 lanes!

[@deanslegos1990]

Thanks for these videos

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Is that the old, long gone, Nickey Chevrolet, smoke stack along the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago coming up on the left starting at about 4:05?

[@lisamariebright5315]

🥰❤️❤️❤️Love this!!!❤️❤️❤️🤓

[@okramw1]

Love the cars from my childhood. Too bad the highways are so much more crowded & today's drivers obviously haven't been well schooled in proper driving.

[@henrystowe6217]

For sure and highway building never kept up with demand

[@elmersolano1535]

Salamat

[@LL-bl8hd]

Look at all those old cars!

[@almostfm]

Or as they were called at the time, "cars".

[@nymuseum1601]

I see mostly new cars

[@keith7046]

You could tell the make of each one of them. Not like now-a-days.

[@mr.goodpliers6988]

1966 Plymouth dash at 0:44

[@mackpines]

Techniques of Defensive Driving: Miami Edition. 1. Drive according to your country of origin. 2. Use the left lane to stop and change a flat tire. 3. Weave annoyingly in and out of traffic lanes. 4. Drive dangerously fast in your Lamborghini or Ferrari egomobile. 5. When the causeway is lifted, put the pedal to the metal and use the span as a jump ramp.

[@lightdark00]

Some people should be required to watch this everywhere, with pupil trackers to make sure they are watching.

[@Cooter4]

Watching this film is the only thing I believe should be mandated!

[@barrydraeger1892]

Looks like 1966, not the '70s

[@Dog.soldier1950]

I agree

[@jayhockley8841]

That Mustang with the stripes was about a 1969/ 1970 ??

[@barrydraeger1892]

@@jayhockley8841 I believe the Mustang was a '66 Shelby GT-350H rented from Hertz!

[@johnberry8367]

In Chicago...

[@tuffguy428]

OMG! 9:15 There's a 1966 GT500H Shelby!

[@jasonhsu4711]

I grew up during the era of the 55 mph national speed limit and hadn't known that there was once a time when higher speed limits were allowed. It didn't seem oppressive at the time, because I was just a child. I was ineligible to drive, and I had more time on my hands back then. That said, I can understand how much sports car owners hated that federal law. On the other hand, I'm guessing that the people driving the underpowered cars of the Malaise Era weren't too upset. That 55 mph national speed limit didn't matter if you drove a Chevette that shook at 56 mph or higher. And it didn't matter if you were driving a massive Brougham land yacht with a big V8 engine with the same horsepower as the small 4-cylinder engine of a modern Honda Fit or Toyota Yaris.

[@henrystowe6217]

I got my so called license in 80. I was well aware of the burden of the 55 moh limit. Long story, but i took a position against it after my dad received a warning for doing 6o in a 55 zone. I knew the limits were higher before. It angered me so much that i wrote about in school and eventually joined the National Motorists Association to repeal the speed limit. 55 mph? Over my dead body.

[@postmodernrecycler]

Where's the movie teaching us to pass on the right, drive slow in the left lane, avoid maintaining any consistent speed, cut people off in their following distance, and signal only after changing lanes?

[@mercoid]

That film had to have been a well loved classic judging from the way people drive today. Another one I encounter every day now is, people exiting the cloverleaf getting onto the road and never merging until the last second just before the entrance to the cloverleaf they just got off of. To top it off, they’re not using any turn signal left or right. Driving the entire exit until the last second. And they get pissed at Me for not letting them in even though there nobody behind me.

[@Woad25]

8:23 Punch buggy blue! *Punches your shoulder*

[@timmusial6335]

Sounds like Bob Barker doing the V/O ...

[@albertpatterson3675]

Didn't even mention the speeding red Corvair at 10:10. Unsafe at any speed!

[@jayyarotsky1779]

The guy driving the Tornado was an ass! Newest car I saw in that film was 1968

[@jimhaines8370]

I agree this is from the late sixties

[@frothe42]

Most of the vehicles I see were from 1966.

[@jayhockley8841]

Except the fastback Mustang ?

[@frothe42]

@@jayhockley8841 The Mustang might also be from 1966.

[@jasonhsu4711]

I was born in 1973. Except for the Volkswagen Beetle (which kept the same styling for decades), NONE of the cars shown here was one that I remembered seeing on the roads. So I assumed that this film must have been from 1970 or 1971. If this was filmed in 1968, then it's no wonder that I found these cars to be so unrecognizable. However, I did recognize the Oldsmobile Toronado with the reckless driver, because Jay Leno owns one of this generation.

[@discerningmind]

This isn't from the 1970's. The newest cars in the film are 1966 models.

[@robjackson5245]

The dated showiness means this was 1970 for sure, or 1971 The 60s were still in the early 70s.

[@gitv2987]

good info to know for if you are taking your classic 70s car on the freeway, as 100 yards from 65 mph, to come to a complete stop, sounds suicidal..

[@pw4780]

1960’s USA - best of times. You’d see cars breaking down and accidents with bodies on the side of the roads.

[@godoftheinterwebz]

when cars were solid steel, glass shattered and there were no shoulder belts or airbags

[@henrystowe6217]

Despite all of this, most of us survived. Id trade the so called safety of today for the freedom.

[@blueeagle4661]

Do you have videos from 90s to early 2000s?

[@Miker3797]

More like the mid 60's Chicago area toll roads and expressways.

[@cityplanner3063]

Should be mandatory to watch these before getting your license

[@lenscap8925]

Race the Mustang daddy!!!

[@alanwood5857]

Counted the Olds Toronado 4 different scenes - V8 FWD cars!

[@michaelkopp4458]

Every single Minnesota Twin Cities driver should be strapped on a bed and forced to watch this on a loop...

[@deanslegos1990]

"Drive in one of the 2 center lanes" 🥴

[@CRiver396]

Is this like the US interstate highway?

[@bradleysmith3284]

The Green Cross?

[@davidcarroll8735]

National Safety Council produced materials at least through the 2010’s. Obviously not associated with the Red Cross 😉

[@PpPp-gi7ef]

What sucks though is that these roads, signs, exits, and entrances are decades outdated even from my home state I think all over the country they are all extremely outdated

[@henrystowe6217]

The old signs were cool

[@timacoata7456]

@9:14 mustang ? Not sure

[@bobr511]

That Mustang looked like a Hertz Shelby.

[@CycolacFan]

@@bobr511 I was trying to work out if it was a Hertz, makes sense if they were renting cars to make this.

[@jayhockley8841]

@@bobr511 What year Shelby ?

[@bobr511]

@@jayhockley8841 1966 was the year that Shelby Mustangs were available via Hertz. They were black with gold strips.

[@classicsoutherncalifornia6753]

I dont see any car newer than 1966.

[@henrystowe6217]

This looks 60s to me.

[@melchristian8876]

👍👍💯💯🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Segue 2021,keep texting fools. Private ambulance company stock' going through the roof. Get some!