Drivers licenses should be harder to get, and easier to lose

[Beev]

Agree/disagree?

I may be biased because I've never had any type of traffic violation ever, but I am so very tired of seeing terrible, terrible drivers on a consistent basis. If fewer people were allowed to drive that would increase use of public transportation and be all around "greener."

Won't happen, though. Car companies would take a hit to profits and we can't have that.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

We need to do the fifth element 'points' system... There are way way too many drivers that don't speed or break laws that LEOs care about yet are extremely dangerous

 

[JulesMaximus]

Texting while driving should be instant revocation of both phone and license...hell, take the vehicle too. The state needs the money.

 

[PottedMeat]

I bet you could pull it off if the tests were slowly made more difficult over say 10 years.

 

[Anubis]

Agree
we need to adopt the German way of issuing a driver license.

to poorly sum up
it takes a long time
lots of in class and road shit
you have to know everything
it costs like 2000$ to do it

and if you lose it you gotta pay that 2K and do it all again

 

[sdifox]

Caveat Emptor. There must be a replacement ID. A lot of people get driver's license simply because it is pegged as an ID.

 

[bignateyk]

They also need to do retesting every X years (5 maybe?). This would weed out the old people. You know that'll never happen though since they are the ones who show up to vote and the politicians don't want to piss them off.

 

[bignateyk]

Caveat Emptor. There must be a replacement ID. A lot of people get driver's license simply because it is pegged as an ID.

I'm pretty sure there is simply an ID card.

 

[sdifox]

They also need to do retesting every X years (5 maybe?). This would weed out the old people. You know that'll never happen though since they are the ones who show up to vote and the politicians don't want to piss them off.

as a percentage, I would say young idiots outnumber older incompetent drivers.

 

[sdifox]

I'm pretty sure there is simply an ID card.

Problem is most places want 2 pieces of pictured ID.

 

[ViviTheMage]

1 DWI, no license, ever.

 

[Anubis]

Problem is most places want 2 pieces of pictured ID.

really ive never seen a place like that

 

[bignateyk]

as a percentage, I would say young idiots outnumber older incompetent drivers.

They need to profile more.

Old people, asians, teens, women, and the biggest one of all, YOUNG ASIAN WOMEN!

If I see a young asian woman driving anywhere near me I immediately create a buffer of at least 4 cars between me and her.

 

[yinan]

There shouldnt even be a need for a drivers license. Everyone should be able to drive no matter what. I do not get what gives the state the right to tell me that.

 

[Anubis]

old asian women are just as bad if not worse then young asian women

 

[JulesMaximus]

There shouldnt even be a need for a drivers license. Everyone should be able to drive no matter what. I do not get what gives the state the right to tell me that.

Driving is not a right.

 

[bignateyk]

There shouldnt even be a need for a drivers license. Everyone should be able to drive no matter what. I do not get what gives the state the right to tell me that.

Yeah, we should be able to go out and kill people too and rob any bank we please.

 

[surfsatwerk]

You are all bad drivers. The current system makes the best of an inherently insane situation.

 

[sdifox]

really ive never seen a place like that

Standard practice up here.

 

[sdifox]

There shouldnt even be a need for a drivers license. Everyone should be able to drive no matter what. I do not get what gives the state the right to tell me that.

How about the state creates and upholds the laws?

 

[bignateyk]

You are all bad drivers. The current system makes the best of an inherently insane situation.

This is ATOT, we are all perfect drivers.

 

[sdifox]

This is ATOT, we are all perfect drivers.

wrong. This is ATOT, we all have chauffeurs.

 

[alfa147x]

Agree
we need to adopt the German way of issuing a driver license.

to poorly sum up
it takes a long time
lots of in class and road shit
you have to know everything
it costs like 2000$ to do it

and if you lose it you gotta pay that 2K and do it all again

I disagree.

Fuck classes and road shit. Make the damn test harder. I don't want to have have to pay a fucking Hume Jesus to get a drivers licences if I can drive correctly.

I'm fucking Indian and got a 98% or something like that on my test. MAKE THE TEST HARDER. Don't charge more.

 

[preslove]

The problem with urban sprawl and the idiotic land use policies of most of america for the past 60 years is that to actually have a decent life you need a car.

It's MUCH harder to get a license in most European countries because there are viable public transportation alternatives.

 

[alfa147x]

wrong. This is ATOT, we all have chauffeurs.

I have 2.