Mobility education

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Mobility Education is a proposal to replace driver's education, like what is currently taught to most high school students in the United States, with education on riding a bicycle, being a pedestrian, riding the bus, taking a ferry, and using other forms of public transit in addition to driving an automobile. The goal is to make everyone safer by putting them in the shoes of users of other modes of transportation.

A mobility education curriculum would include:

Vehicular cycling, the bicycle as a vehicle with all the rights and responsibilities of vehicle drivers (RCW 46.61.755 in Washington State).
Pedestrian education, the laws regarding marked and unmarked crosswalks and jaywalking.
The local or regional bus and train systems.
Traditional driver's education.