If you have an aspiring teenage driver wanting to get his or her driver's license, do you think it would be a good idea to show him or her videos of car wrecks happening?

I think anything that would show them that they have to pay 100% attention to driving is a good thing,and make them aware that a wreck can happen in a blink of an eye and before ever life changing .

And to anyone just go to YouTube and watch care or truck wrecks, you wont believe what you see.

At 15, I took drivers education at a local school and that’s the first thing they did — sit us down and show us a horrific (reel to reel) movie of real car crashes. The crash, the bodies, the blood and guts. It was very graphic.

I think about three kids got up and left. Then they started the class.

I remember it to this day, but, truthfully, it didn’t stop me from driving like a lunatic for many years.

I learned to drive in 1971. Before we could pass the course, they made us watch a video of the aftermath of terrible car accidents where victims were so unrecognizable they had to be shoveled off the pavement, and scenes like that.

Was it effective? Absolutely. I don’t know if it would be allowed today. But besides that, kids today have seen so much fake blood and gore in the media that it won’t impact them the same as it did me.

Good idea. I saw the movies as a kid. It didn’t slow me down, but it did get me to use my belts all the time. Probably the only reason I’m still here.

I’m fine with it. It can just be the crash dummy tests and I think it conveys what can happen to some extent. I’m ok with real life video also though.

We had to watch a video in Driver’s Education as well. It was narrated and talked about the different causes of each accident. I think something like this is good because it tells a point. I think just watching random videos without that kind of explanation might not be as helpful. Knowing the accident was caused by drunk driving or talking on the phone made it stick in my mind a bit more than just seeing a random accident.

In my kids drivers education classes, they were forced to watch the original Red Asphalt.
Before they got their licenses, I made them watch the second and third ones.

I’m all for it.

And in addition to that I think its also helpful to require the kid to pay for their own insurance rather than adding them to your policy.

I’m all for as much reality as possible (and, yes, I’m aware of how high the rate is for young people.) that’s exactly the point.

Hopefully it will keep them from taking for granted the privilege of driving. And if they do screw up, they’ll feel the effects in their wallets due to their premiums being raised. Nothing like real life consequences to drive the point home.