I recently turned 18, so my parents signed me up for driving school. When I showed up at the academy, I was surprised by the cars they had available for students to learn on. They told me to pick whichever I liked best, and I chose the Mercedes-Benz G500.
Any other security questions you’d like people to expose? What about the street I grew up on driving that car? /s
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how does the car you first drove relate to security?
It’s often a security question for institutions like banks to reset your security parameters.
Ive only seen it as “what was the color of your first car?” I suppose it depends on how you interpret it, but I learned to drive in my parent’s cars and they are different from my first car
Mercedes-Benz G500
Strange choice for a driving school. Not necessarily bad you’ll learn to drive a big boxy car, switching to other models will be easier later.
For me it was a Fiat Punto
They also had Range Rover Sport, Mini Cooper, BMW, Tesla, Lexus, Nissan… It was surprising to see a driving academy with such a nice selection of cars.
Are the lessons expensive ? Can’t see you they can afford leasing 100 000€ cars to students, who could potentially wrecking them.
Or it is a money laundering front.
I didn’t really know much about it at first since my parents handled everything. Later on, I found out it’s actually a large academy, and they offer a special course for people who want to train in high-end cars. I checked their website, and it says 20 hours of training for that course costs around $7000.
'84 Grand Marquis
If you can parallel park THAT, you can parallel park ANYTHING!
Patches O’Houlihan?
Driver’s Ed: 1986 Chevy Cavalier and it was a horrible brown color.
Parent’s Cars:
1986 Buick Skyhawk: Very crappy car. The gas pedal didn’t so much produce acceleration, but rather an eventual increase of the angular momentum of the tires.
1970 Chevy Impala: Loved this car. Huge and had a 400cid small block with a 400 Turbo Hydromatic with a 12 bolt posi rear end. It’s the car that really taught me how to drive. It eventually ran 13’s in the quarter mile.
Learned how to drive manual: 1983 (I think) Ford Escort
REALLY learned how to drive a manual: 1949 Willys Overland. A friend’s Dad’s car. Why did it REALLY teach me how to drive a manual? Easy, it had a non-syncrho’d transmission, much like the big rigs have. This car taught me rev-matching, double clutching, and an appreciation about how cars really work. It also had a column shifter. Once I learned how to handle the transmission, it was a lot of fun to drive. It made me a much better driver.
The car that taught me how to race (there were two):
1985 Toyota MR-2: Was a friend’s car that I Autocrossed (Pro Solo) along with him. He actually made it to Nationals with this car several times. Later he won Nationals with a Supra Turbo. This was in the mid-90’s.
1985 Corolla GT-S: This was my car. It was the AE86 platform with the same engine as the MR-2. Absolutely ferocious car. It didn’t handle as well as the MR-2, but it was soooo much fun. This car taught me “trail braking” and a lot of other performance driving skills. This remains my favorite car I’ve ever owned, even to this day. I’d love to find one and restore it.
My sister’s first car was an 86 cavalier. It was blue and had a manual transmission. She stalled the engine going over train tracks once and the train crossing lit up as she was trying to restart it. Panic ensued…
a 1968 International dump truck.
zero AC, zero power steering, zero fucks.
once you got going with a load, nothing would stop it, not even the brakes. but, it always started and never quit.
Ford Econoline van.
Nice way to get the answer to an often used security question!
I always thought these “ask” communities were a great vector to extract PII.
all you’d need to do is link users to leaked identities and probably get access to accounts quickly.
this is why I make up the wrong answers to any of those questions.
what was you first pets name?
Hannibal Lecter
what was your mothers maiden name?
Poopsmith
I just had to recover my PSN account from a decade ago and I did this with my mother’s maiden name apparently
luckily I managed to remember the false birth date I had also used
I swear to God any account system that uses security questions is brain dead.
For one, a third party can get access to that information with relative ease in many cases but furthermore, some of the security questions are subjective. If a security question asks me during account creation what my favorite restaurant is, what my favorite food is. That answer might literally change, I might not be able to remember the head space I was in when I made the account.
Yes yes let’s protect your password with three shittier passwords for no good reason.
completely agree.
on the other side though, some.of the questions are things that are easily found. things like, “what street did you grow up on” or “what is your mothers maiden name”. like…that shit can be found for free, like right now on the internet at about 200 data brokers.
how about we get an option for hardware keys? or better yet, pgp/rsa keys?
factor those in with password and MFA there should never be a reason why someone (who knows wtf they’re doing) would ever get locked out of their accounts.
I have never seen this as a security question. I mean it sounds like one but have never seen it in the wild.
Why are americans still using security questions ? And why does every post get a comment like this one ? If you don’t like these, quit this community.
1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once – in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn’t been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)
The color of your first car is a fairly common backup question. Answering this in detail is not recommended.
hornyposting for weeks
recently turned 18
Pack it up fellas
Opel Vivaro
I honestly don’t remember the exact car model or even the manufacturer but it was nothing fancy. Some smallish car with manual transmission and no parking sensors or cameras. There weren’t any others to choose from. This was in 2012.
Ford Focus Mk2, back in 2007. Manual transmission, of course, because automatic lessons were (and still are) rare in the UK.
In Finland you can take your driving lessons with automatic but then your license applies to automatic cars only.
UK is the same in that respect.
An '84 manual diesel 4-cylinder Isuzu pickup
It was an ‘86 Renault Alliance. My dad would take me to random empty parking lots to practice. I remember all us kids in the neighborhood were about the same age and it was a major competition to see who could get their license first. I don’t remember who did. It wasn’t me.
Years later, when I was out of the military and starting college, my dad got me a ‘91 Nissan pickup. It was a manual transmission, and I didn’t know how to drive one. He said, “by the time you get it home, you’ll know how to drive a stick.” So I drove it home, and by the time I got it home, I still didn’t know how to drive a stick.
