{"id":274530035,"date":"2013-09-13T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=274530035"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:20:35","slug":"updates-to-drivers-education-reflect-new-dangers-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=274530035","title":{"rendered":"Updates to Drivers\u2019 Education Reflect New Dangers on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By KAREN ANN CULLOTTA, New York Times<br \/>\nDES PLAINES, Ill. \u2014 The drivers\u2019 education simulator lab here seems straight from the 1970s:<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cTechnology has changed so much over the years, and with the old simulators, the students would laugh and easily lose interest,\u201d Ms. Franzen said. \u201cNow, if a student hits a guardrail, the new simulator will immediately stop them from continuing to drive, and they\u2019ll hear sirens, just like they\u2019ve had an accident. It\u2019s really amazing.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/29\/us\/updates-to-drivers-education-reflect-new-dangers-on-the-road.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=3&#038;amp\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/29\/us\/updates-to-drivers-education-reflect-new-dangers-on-the-road.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=3&#038;amp<\/a>;<br \/>\n***********************************************************************************************************************************************<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: I wounder how well the new system covers bicycle and pedestrian issues?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KAREN ANN CULLOTTA, New York Times DES PLAINES, Ill. \u2014 The drivers\u2019 education simulator lab here seems straight from the 1970s: &#8230; \u201cTechnology has changed so much over the years, and with the old simulators, the students would laugh and easily lose interest,\u201d Ms. Franzen said. \u201cNow, if a student hits a guardrail, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=274530035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Updates to Drivers\u2019 Education Reflect New Dangers on the Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274530035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274530035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274530035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274530035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274530035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274530035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274530035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}