Those driver's ed films scared the crap out of me!
There's a documentary about the worst of them ("Hell's Highway" nyti.ms/3DnZjsM, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372321/). Although the documentary is apparently about films made until the mid-70s, I have to guess that the ones I saw around 1981 were from that group (I guess tiny Union County High had a small budget for that type of thing).
I took driver's ed in the summer, and had just seen one of those films when I ended up in a car with older teenagers. One of them pulled out a joint and ALL I COULD SEE in my mind's eye were the grisly skeletons from the films. I called my parents from a payphone (yay early 80s!) and had them come get me, since I didn't want to suffer a similar fate to the people in those films. It was awkward for everyone involved!
"Vocabulary we don't use" is why we need The Onion.
I think I too have been bitten by a radioactive sloth...
Those driver's ed films scared the crap out of me!
There's a documentary about the worst of them ("Hell's Highway" nyti.ms/3DnZjsM, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372321/). Although the documentary is apparently about films made until the mid-70s, I have to guess that the ones I saw around 1981 were from that group (I guess tiny Union County High had a small budget for that type of thing).
I took driver's ed in the summer, and had just seen one of those films when I ended up in a car with older teenagers. One of them pulled out a joint and ALL I COULD SEE in my mind's eye were the grisly skeletons from the films. I called my parents from a payphone (yay early 80s!) and had them come get me, since I didn't want to suffer a similar fate to the people in those films. It was awkward for everyone involved!