“ TECHNIQUES OF DEFENSIVE DRIVING: DRIVING THE EXPRESSWAYS ” 1970s DRIVER’S ED FILM XD48444

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1970s color film, produced for the National Safety Council by Pilot Productions Inc. as part of a series on the techniques of defensive driving, offers a driver’s POV view of midwestern expressway navigation (TRT 10:47). Opening titles: “The National Safety Council presents, Techniques of Defensive Driving: Driving the Expressways” (0:10). Highway driving, as seen from the driver’s seat of a moving automobile. A dashboard speedometer shows a red needle climbing to speeds over 60mph. Passing a garbage truck (0:31). Speed limit signs show a maximum of 65 and a minimum of 40. A montage of highway traffic signs: “No Stopping, Thru Traffic,” etc. (1:03). Three lanes of traffic, divided by dotted white lines. An exit for Waukegan Road (1:30). A convertible misses an exit and tries to back up onto an exit ramp. Another car speeds through an area marked with orange py