Driver's Education, Thursday, Period 1

[10secondcar]

When the students arrived for class, they would find the Danger Shop set up as an empty city street at night. Their teacher was waiting for them wearing a slightly rumpled suit with no tie. "Hey, guys!" he said once they were all assembled. "I'm Mr. O'Conner, and in this class we're going to learn through doing. Now, we could sit around talking about cars but by the time you got finished learning all the traffic signs this session would be over, and anyway, that’s boring. Who really cares about what a yield sign is for anyway?” Not Brian, that was for sure. He’d gotten pulled off traffic duty pretty fast.

"So, first things first." Brian clicked a button on the control, and a white Mitsubishi Eclipse appeared in the first lane of the street. Brian opened both doors so everyone could see in once they'd gathered around, and handwavily gave a quick rundown of gears, steeering, braking, and acceleration.

Once he'd finished that, Brian pushed another button and three more cars appeared lined up across the street: red, blue, and lime green. "“There’s no better way to learn anything than by doing it,” Brian declared, “so today you’re going to drive. Specifically, you’re going to run heats.” He pointed down the street. “The second stoplight is a quarter mile. When this light turns green, you go. First one past the second stoplight wins. We keep going until everyone has had a turn. It’s a straight shot, all you have to do is focus on keeping the car going forward and in a straight line. If you somehow manage to crash, you won't hurt anything, this is all a simulation. The program will repair your car immediately, but penalize you by taking you back to the starting line. Easy, right?” He thought so. If any of them turned out to need remedial training in how a car worked, well, he’d find that out soon enough. And owe Skywalker a beer. "We've got a prime number here, so we'll do...two heats of four and three of three, how's that sound?" He hoped it sounded good, because he hadn't been able to come up with a better way to divide by seventeen.

"Once you've run your heat, tell me your name and one thing you love about cars. Let's go!"

Comments

Sign In

[10secondcar]

In a car.

Re: Sign In

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy Li

...or on a motorcycle?

During the Lecture

[10secondcar]

Some of you might want to pay close attention to the 'how this thing works' portion.

Re: During the Lecture

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy watched, incredibly grateful that she'd taken driver's ed once already with Mr. Bond. She wasn't sure she would have been able to retain anything Mr. O'Conner had said and she definitely wouldn't have been able to do much more than stall out in a car with a manual transmission.

Re: During the Lecture

[not_every_mage]

Anders had only even been in a car a handful of times, never mind driving one. He looked increasingly befuddled and worried during class until O'Conner mentioned they couldn't actually crash and die.

Re: During the Lecture

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

Ronan hadn't been sure what to expect from this class at first. He knew how to drive and he really didn't want to re-learn it in some Volvo but he was pleasantly surprised.

Look at that, this class actually had his full attention.

Re: During the Lecture

[yogurtvore]

Blue had gotten in some driving practice since getting her permit, but not a lot. Everybody else always needed the car more. So she was paying close attention to the teacher, even if part of her kept getting distracted by the whole Danger Shop experience.

Re: During the Lecture

[gavegoodface]

Face looked over the controls, they were completely different to the speeders, shuttles, and snubfighters he was familiar with.

Re: During the Lecture

[stacyexperiment]

Gwen was from New York and had never been behind the wheel of a car before soooooo she was definitely gonna crash.

Re: During the Lecture

[boneyard_girl]

Ada wasn't usually a driver when the scouts were out and about, but she knew the basics. Still, she leaned in to get a better look. Huh. Fancy.

Re: During the Lecture

[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian had had Bond's driving class before, and had done her own driving like a lunatic research since then, so this wasn't new, but she paid attention anyway, since every car was different.

Drive a Car!

[10secondcar]

Who's got the fastest quarter mile?

Re: Drive a Car! -- Heat 1

[10secondcar]

Finish Order:
Ronan Lynch
Kira Yukimura
Johnny Storm
Jesse Pinkman

Re: Drive a Car! -- Heat 2

[10secondcar]

Finish Order:
Alex Mack
Kathy Hana Li
Ezra Sagishi
Garik Loran

Re: Drive a Car! -- Heat 3

[10secondcar]

Finish Order:
Jalian d'Arsenette y ken Selvren
Thorin
Blue Sargent

Re: Drive a Car!

[10secondcar]

Finish Order:
Ichabod Crane
Anders
Hanna Heller

Re: Drive a Car!

[10secondcar]

Finish Order:
Gwen Stacy
Ada Miller
Anna of Arendelle

Introductions

[10secondcar]

Nope, you're not escaping without these.

Re: Introductions

[spin_kick_snap]

"I'm Kathy Li," she said, leaning against 'her' car to give her introduction. "I guess it's not really limited to cars, but I love going fast."

Re: Introductions

[not_every_mage]

"I'm Anders," Anders said, still looking pretty pleased with himself. "I'm from one of the worlds without cars, but I reckoned it'd be fun to learn while I have the chance."

Re: Introductions

[yogurtvore]

"I'm Blue Sargent," Blue said, "and that lamp pole had it coming. And what I like best about cars is that they can get you from point A to point B."

Re: Introductions

[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

"I'm Alex Mack," Alex said when it was her turn, "and what I like about cars is the freedom that they give you,"

Talk to Brian

[10secondcar]

Who was positively itching to get behind the wheel of one of the Eclipses. He'd given them pretty souped up engines.

Take Another Turn

[10secondcar]

One quarter mile not enough for you? You're welcome to go again after everybody else has had a turn!

Re: Take Another Turn

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy was going to politely wait until everyone had finished introducing themselves and then she was making for the first car could get to and sliding behind the wheel.

Could she max out the speedometer? Only one way to find out.

OOC

[10secondcar]

Finish order for the races was, and will continue to be, determined by RNG. I'm rather amused that the RNG put future TA Ronan Lynch in position one. How does it know?