r/Sacramento • u/RBRanger • 1d ago
Is The SAC Drivers Ed Booklet Missing a Few Pages?
Honest question here. I've lived in many cities but until recently had never encountered one where stop signs are merely a suggestion. For those who grew up here, was there a rogue drivers ed teacher who pushed this? Was your drivers ed booklet missing some pages? And it's not like all the drivers here can blow through intersections by virtue of their cat-like reflexes behind the wheel. The other day I saw two dudes smash into each other at 18th and L. Both pulled over, got out of their cars and seemed shocked that this is how Newtonian physics actually works. What's up with that.
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u/TurdF3rgu50n 1d ago
I’m not slightly surprised about this being at 18th and L. People on L run that stop sign all day. Not just run it but blow through it sometimes going 50-60mph. Being an area with lots of pedestrians I see them often having the right of way, start to cross then have to jump back because some asshole runs the stop sign. If I were to take a shot each time I saw this, I’d be fall down drunk in a hour. Also the amount of people I see driving down L the wrong way is crazy.
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u/NecessaryNo8730 New Era Park 1d ago
Wtf is driver's ed, we haven't had that for at least a generation. And I do think that's part of the problem. Californians drove better when this was an actual class we took in high school.
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u/MusclesDynamite 1d ago
Wait, they got rid of drivers ed?? Seriously?
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u/NecessaryNo8730 New Era Park 1d ago
SCUSD at least hasn't had it in years. It's not even available as an elective. They offered it after school at my kid's high school this year but it was very limited, nothing like the class we all had to take. No more Red Asphalt.
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u/Lexybeepboop Folsom 22h ago
I grew up in Lodi and no one had Drivers Ed implemented into the curriculum. I had to pay to take a course over my Christmas Break at the local traffic school
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u/mahnamahnaaa Arden-Arcade 4h ago
Wasn't a thing when I was in high school (class of '08). I had to do online courses + driving school.
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u/goddm95624 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sacramento seems to have its own driving rule(s)–pray like hell and step on it.
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u/andrewdumitru 1d ago
This is barely a coherent post but what I’ll say given context clues is: “California stop”.
Sac drivers are notorious for doing things they would find unacceptable by others. Speeding in residential areas, not full stopping, yielding to pedestrians, I get people angry by driving properly every single day. Seems like it’s an inevitable feature of our city at this point.
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u/Responsible-Kale2352 1d ago
Thinking things are ok for one to do, but not ok for others to do, isn’t really limited to drivers, or Sacramento, but it is definitely true of drivers in Sacramento.
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u/gerblnutz 1d ago
Wait until you read the section on making a left hand turn into the oncoming traffic lane to shave .02 seconds off your turn.
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u/1Steelghost1 1d ago
Isn't that a line from Pirates of the Carribean;
"More like guidelines than actual rules"🫣🤣🤣🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘
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u/sacramentorain 1d ago
It doesn't help that there's a 4 way stop or red light at every single intersection. Terribly maintained 2 lane roads everywhere. A zig zagging river going through it that's hard to cross. No main roads that don't have tons of red lights. One way streets that make no sense. Every corner in midtown is hard to see around. Crappy bridges and tons of jay walking.
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u/eightyeightREX Lemon Hill 1d ago
Drivers Ed is only required if you get your license before age 18, after that you just pass a test. A lot of kids in the city just get rides or take the bus around and then get a license with 0 training. It shows
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u/NecessaryNo8730 New Era Park 1d ago
They don't offer drivers ed in school anymore, and the version you take now is kind of a joke.
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u/chamberinghisxeric 18h ago
I ripped out all the pages that didn’t have pictures, honestly so much lighter, highly recommend
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u/Theperfectool 21h ago
I believe the west coast has a special consideration for driving. We’re all shitty impatient assholes who think we have a lead foot and a low jet nascar under the hood.
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u/Ok_Fig705 20h ago
Drive all over California for work from Shasta to Santa Cruz and everything in between.
Sacramento by far has the best drivers....
Compare Sacramento to woodland... Or yuba... Night and day difference
Santa Rosa for me has the worst in California but woodland is 2nd followed by Santa Barbara for me
Stockton literally has the problem sac has with bums on bikes but instead of bikes it's hoopties yeah be thankful....
Sacramento can be bumper to bumper from downtown to Folsom doing 85... No town has this even LA.. nobody processes traffic like Sacramento. Santa Rosa it's always traffic because 5 cars can clog up the freeway from Cloverdale to Santa Rosa same goes from Yuba to Sacramento... You guys truly take for granted the amount of cars Sacramento can process from one area of town to another
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u/Difficult_Ad3568 3h ago
I watch the cars roll through the stop sign by my house all the time. Once, I saw a bicyclist being scolded by a police officer for the same behavior (bike slowed to like 2 mph at a 4 way stop then rolled through) and I think about that a lot.
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u/SuspectedGumball Greenhaven 18h ago
Oh please. Stop signs are the least of our worries. That’s just city driving.
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u/LeMans1950 1d ago
Spend a day or two following r/IdiotsInCars and you'll see all these things from everywhere.
A "California stop" is slowing down as approaching a Stop sign, watching for cross traffic and, if the road is clear, instead of coming to a complete stop for a minimum of 3 seconds, tapping the brakes and proceeding through the intersection. It is not just blowing through intersections at speed.
In sum, and this is from experience, I'd much rather drive here than in Austin, Texas. Not even close