Quote Originally Posted by nova_robotics View Post
I have an engineering degree. I went to school with a hell of a lot of really smart people, but if half of them got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, they'd just lay down and die.

Tire iron? Check. Jack? Check. Full sized spare? Check. This problem is insurmountable. I guess this is where I die. Tell my family I love them.

Engineers have a bad reputation for a reason. Useless as tits on a nun. Hands on machine shop experience should be mandatory.
I once watched a " hands on" session for university students taking place. Four rubs of a file across a piece of steel (and one even had the file the wrong way round) and they got their "ticket".