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also bump up the testing standard from rock bottom up to bus driver level
it's a multi-ton piece of machinery, wild how easy it is to get licensed in the first place
many people would not be able to live because of car dependent shitholes being car dependent.
and many people who are killed by bad drivers would not be dead
someone loses either way but i'm on the side of not letting people loose in public with dangerous machinery when they aren't qualified to operate it safely
i agree
Stricter requirements and more efficient enforcement would also have a preventative effect. Once people realise that they can get in real trouble for driving like assholes they will drive better.
you have to account for the excess deaths of people you make homeless if you just say fuck 'em like that
i already did
i fall on the side of needing to be able to operate a dangerous machine safely before you are allowed to do so in public where you can maim or kill others through incompetence
I unironically think this is a good way to reduce demand for cars and roads. Pitch more stringent lisencing standards every time someone complains about a bad driver. People all have the idea that everyone else is a shit driver, so prey on that exceptionism by insisting they should have the road to themselves.
Then slide into mass transit. Say people still need to work and that this would make sure all the terrible drivers they see on the road don't NEED cars
if you just do the strict licensing you just get a pile of unlicensed uninsured drivers.
it needs to roll out after transit is available
Yeah I drove unlicensed for a year anf my gf for 3 years because, surprise surprise, we still needed to go to work
Stricter lisencing is a foot in the door in terms of persuasion, but yeah, transit first is better for implementation.
I've not ridden in the US, being a small german boy, but I don't exactly get the feeling better testing is the solve here if you never even do anything about this afterwards.
A common idea in germany is pedestrians and cyclists, including small children, are "forcing their right of way" and it's kind of their fault if they get hit because they get the short end of the stick of being hit by a car. The judiciary might punish you, in a car, hallucinating a traffic light being green while it is red and running over a small child with up to 3 months of a driving ban you can contest.