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LOL, you think children listen to parents when “taught properly”? We taught our kids all the proper behaviors, for years. Loads of examples of consequences, restrictions, lectures, etc. they still grow up and make poor choices.

When it comes to acquiring good judgement, for most people there is no teacher like experience.

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That's a good point. A lot of what you're saying is inevitable for most adolescents due to contemporaneous hormonal and neurological changes they're enduring.

To combat that, we could induce accelerated experience using VR simulation.

I play VR driving games, including a steering wheel setup. Wouldn't you know it, I crash a lot in games and drive in excess of 200mph, or drive a 20 ton tractor trailer at 100mph weaving through traffic. If I crash, I reload. Meanwhile, the couple times I've tried to actually drive above 100mph, I've felt incredibly uncomfortable (despite my new car ostensibly being designed for the autobahn and possibly higher than that speed)

VR isn't magic. Your brain is pretty good at subtly understanding you won't die if you make a mistake

The second suggestion (requiring virtual reality in the class) will expose all drivers to the experience.

But it's no more real than the existing videos of accidents in drivers' education classes. If it happened to somebody else, or in a simulation, it's not real. People are inherently solipsistic about such things.

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