94: On The Importance of Better Driving
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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But how do you eliminate driver error?
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| 0:00.0 | Why is life always this or that? |
| 0:03.0 | Now or later? |
| 0:05.0 | All or nothing? |
| 0:07.0 | Start earning or keep learning. |
| 0:10.0 | Turns out it doesn't have to be. |
| 0:11.0 | With an apprenticeship, you can take your next step |
| 0:14.0 | and get the best of both worlds. |
| 0:16.0 | You can get paid and gain skills. |
| 0:19.0 | Get the jump with an apprenticeship |
| 0:21.0 | in accountancy, to cyber engineering |
| 0:23.0 | and loads more in between. |
| 0:25.0 | Wherever you want to land in life, |
| 0:27.0 | search Get the Jump to see what's out there for you. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:31.0 | Back in May of 1932, a 61-year-old handyman named John Thompson |
| 0:43.0 | was tinkering in his garage when he had himself a eureka moment, |
| 0:47.0 | a completely self-centered idea that would virtually eliminate bad driving. |
| 0:52.0 | In those days, bad driving was commonplace |
| 0:55.0 | and the US automakers weren't sure what to do about it. |
| 0:58.0 | But John Thompson believed the problem had less to do with bad drivers |
| 1:02.0 | and more to do with the obstacles they encountered, |
| 1:05.0 | specifically recessed gullies, intricate curves, |
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