{"id":271,"date":"2004-10-08T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-04-12T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T22:40:16","slug":"everyday-driving-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/08\/everyday-driving-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Driving Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweb.com.au\/cms\/A_6074\/article.html\">AutoWeb &#8211; Everyday Driving Skills<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article may be for Australian drivers (who drive on the <em>wrong <\/em>side of the road), but the tips it lists are still perfectly valid.<\/p>\n<p>There are just too many bad drivers out there for you to ignore this. For example, of all the people I know, there are only a few who I would list as really, really good drivers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/~dmmoulton\/diary\/crescendo.htm\">Dave<\/a>, Tom, Jeff (who is in his 50s, I think, and used to be a cab driver in boston), Chris, and PJ. (There may be other people I know who are really good drivers too, but I haven&#8217;t driven with them long enough to know &#8211; these are just the certain ones.)<\/p>\n<p>So read this article, and be a better driver. Please!!<\/p>\n<p>-Keithius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article may be for Australian drivers (who drive on the wrong side of the road), but the tips it lists are still perfectly valid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-and-trucks","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-4n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":391,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/01\/05\/winter-road-school-stresses-safety\/","url_meta":{"origin":271,"position":0},"title":"Winter road school stresses safety","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 5, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"A good story on a Winter Driving School... and a few good tips. 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