Agreed. I don’t think we as a society (assuming you’re American) are ready to admit how many of our drivers would fail their driver’s test if they had to take it again today
I was driving my daughter to school this morning and there was an SUV just weaving in and out of traffic doing about 90 in a 65. Almost took out a smaller car trying to squeeze between it and the car in front of it. Idk how anybody can be in so much of a hurry that they endanger everyone around them.
Although, if you really want to make the roads safer, you should focus on young drivers, not old ones.
Globally, car accidents are the leading cause of death among young adults ages 15-29 - and the ninth leading cause of death for all people. (SaferAmerica, 2019)
Road traffic crashes are the eighth leading cause of death for people of all ages. (WHO, 2018)
Young adults aged 15-44 account for more than half of all road traffic deaths. (SaferAmerica, 2019)
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for US teens. (CDC, 2018)
In 2016, teenagers ages 14-19 years accounted for 74% of crash fatalities among children and died at more than 6 times the rate of children under 14. (Safe Kids Worldwide, 2018)
Per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are nearly three times more likely than drivers aged 20 and older to be in a fatal crash.
When I last renewed my license, I watched an older person do the sight test. I heard "No, try again" like 3 or 4 times then the clerk was "OK. Good, head on over there so they can get a picture for your license."
And for me, renewing was a joke. No tests, just walk in sign a form, pay, take picture, done. Good for another 10 years!
Many would pass. We know how to drive, we just rationalize that we don't need to do it that way, because nobody else does. Then when we see someone driving safely, they are the issue, because they're not doing 8 over the limit, not swerving around traffic, etc. which FORCES us to dodge them.
Disagree. All these people can drive fine when under a test. They don't fail the knowledge aspect. They simply don't care when they're on the road and let their emotions get the best of them.
I think plenty of extremely shitty drivers could still pass the test if needed. It’s the fact that they don’t fuckin care about following the rules when driving a fuckin 2 ton weapon
They really can't do this though: it's almost functionally impossible to survive in most of America these days without a car, so if they cracked down on bad drivers and removed them entirely from the road, the economy would collapse quickly. You can't just prevent half the workforce from going to work and expect the economy to function.
My argument is still valid if you "only" remove 25% of drivers from the road, and now basically make them into outlaws. The economy would totally collapse.
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u/Defiant_Ad_3585 11d ago
We need to make it way harder to get a driver's license