Californication (was: I've failed my driving test!)

[davewitley]

Constance Vigilance wrote:

> It varies by state, but in my state (California), when I went to 
school (loooog ago), Driver's Ed was a required course in High 
School. Driver's Ed was rules of the road, which took about 1 week 
if you go slow, and the rest of the year was "health" (sex ed). 

I find this a fascinating observation on several levels.  Leaving 
aside the interesting fact that allegedly right wing USA provides 
driving lessons free while good ol' corporatist sclerotic Europe 
insists that the individual pays, there is a vast Freudian field of 
study in the apparent equivalence of driving and sex.

The implication that driving is intrinsic to life, that it is 
something only practised by adults (but in those rural areas...), 
that there are rules, that if you disobey them...

And then there's the non-equivalence, too: one lesson versus a 
year's worth - what does that say?  That there is more to sex than 
driving?  That American parents are more anxious about one than the 
other (but which kills more teenagers?)?

Somehow a whole society is laid bare...

David