It happens, I have a close friend who instructs with me and he is a fantastic coach and an excellent driver; however, at one of the events he just didn’t click with his student and both asked to change instructors (I was surprised because my friend is an excellent coach and very patient with new drivers). I ended up…

It’s cheaper if you pick the right car for track duty. Consumables are the number one expense and the best way to reduce consumable costs is to drive a lightweight, low horsepower car.

The instructor will always drive faster in their car than yours. I never drive harder than 70-80% in a student’s car, even if they ask me to (they usually can’t tell that I’m holding back quite a bit anyway). Not only do I not want to have any issues in someone else’s car, but I didn’t tech it and I cannot trust that…

At most events, instructors are volunteers who are trading their services for free or reduced entry fees. The range of experience levels, coaching abilities, and driving knowledge varies greatly from coach to coach (some clubs have stricter guidelines than others for who can coach/instruct).

Don’t worry, as long as you have a good attitude and are putting in effort your instructor won’t care how slow you are.

As a seasoned instructor, I wholeheartedly agree with you advise. Sounds like you ticked all the novice mistakes (almost everyone makes most of the same mistakes when they’re new). Braking too lightly for too long, turning in too early, and busy hands are the textbook novice mistakes.

My favorite is thinking what would happen if the shooter had the foresight to pull the fire alarm before he started shooting. We cram 600+ students down a single flight of stairs with another 500+ in each hallway adjacent to the same stairs. A single shooter could literally kill hundreds with legal weapons.

Or we could take the bus. One driver and 30-80 passengers. The key ‘disruptive’ technology could be in scheduling pickup and drop-off times and locations via an app, so you don’t spend as much time waiting for the bus and/or don’t have to go to a limited number and locations of stations.

Not really, since while I’m driving I’m sharing the road with remotely operated vehicles.

Accelerator pedal.

The shooters are usually students, so why would a teacher who loves their students train to kill them?

Too bad you aren’t required to have a license to own, buy, or operate a firearm and that you don’t have to register and insure your guns. 

When you’re famous they just let you do it.

I completely agree, my point was that people debate how much the smart guns would reduce those accidental shootings (personally, I believe any reduction is worthwhile).

Most of them are fingerprint type scanners, but there are also ones that use a wristband, ring, or smartwatch to unlock them (some of those have their own security features).

They do! But those are typically emergency lifeboats or used by the coast guard or military types. https://boats.drivemag.com/features/five-tough-boats-that-refuse-to-capsize

Drag. Moving through the water is very difficult, the more a boat can move on top and over the water the less drag and more efficient it becomes. It’s like why airplanes don’t drive on the ground.

The problem is that there aren’t. There are limits to what can be done. Some things are actually impossible (or rather so difficult/energy expensive that they are practically impossible).

Physics doesn’t work that way. It’d be like say that since runners have gotten faster over the last 100yrs eventually they’ll be able to run fast enough to cross the country in an hour, or that since the high jump record has risen that eventually high jumpers will be able to just jump to the Moon.

Here’s why it isn’t aliens or advanced, secret technologies: air. We live at the bottom of an ocean of air. There’s a column of air above you rising 70 miles high. When things move quickly air cannot get out of the way and it piles up in front of the object like snow pushed by a plow. This compresses and heats the air…