Doc Bundy, a racecar driver and instructor in Gainesville, Ga., said: "I raced against him.
When it went past again I saw that the student driver, his instructor seated alongside him, was a silver-haired man with a moustache, well into his 70s at least, dressed in white shirt, tie and suit jacket.
With all due respect to my high school Driver Ed instructor, I think he's wrong about who the best drivers are.
Something to get us from Point A to Point B. In fact, my Driver Ed instructor in high school asserted that the best, safest drivers on the road are those who drive only for that purpose: to get from Point A to Point B. Purely practical.
Perhaps the most useful of these systems is Distance Control Assist, which is like an electronic driver-ed instructor working an invisible passenger-side brake pedal when you get a little too close to the car ahead.
But the number of school systems offering the program has plummeted to about 20percenttodayay, from 90percentt in the 1980s, said Allen R. Robinson, chief executive of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, which represents high school and commercial driver education instructors.
Two years on, Mistry is working full-time on his business – an online service that matches learner drivers with instructors – and loving every minute.
Honda is touring major city centres of Canada Vancouver, Montreal, Torontoto – with a fleet of stick-shift coupes and a team of skilled drivers and instructors.
The racers have come from various professions: taxicab drivers, swimming instructors, coal miners, tax assessors, lawyers, fur trappers, journalists, and a car salesman have all entered.
