Driving is not a right. WAY too many people are allowed to drive. What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive
What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive
That’s exactly why it’s treated as a right. Can’t drive?Can’t live.
Wow what a bummer that trains, buses, bikes, electric scooters, and every other mode of rapid, inexpensive transportation has been un-invented. Those would have been really useful literally every moment since they were first invented. If we had those we could treat driving like it was the most dangerous thing people do every day, which it is.
My point is that driving is essential only because the people in power have unilaterally decided that it must be, and fuck them for that.
No, I get it, the problem the way we’ve chosen to build society, but now that it is the way it is, judges and juries are reluctant to ban someone from working and buying groceries for anything less than a prison sentence…
Like it’s pretty crazy to me that the State (USA) can seize you car if you transport drugs with it, but not if yoU literally run over a human being. People with multiple violations and triple-suspended licenses still get to keep their cars.
Yeah you make a good point. I hate all of it
I wanted to make a joke about how the American brain simply lacks the part that enables manual locomotion, but our cities straight up do not allow for it. If I cycled to work, it would take me an hour to get there and an hour to get home. I’d love to live within cycling distance of work, but I don’t make enough money to rent in that area, let alone buy
Our cities are deeply unwell, and I don’t think it’s possible to fix them
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Easy fix.
Driving is not a right, it’s a privilege.
In addition to what a lot of others have said already, in a more egalitarian society most people wouldn’t have to drive
And yeah, equal rights doesn’t mean anyone can just do anything
Well yeah in a truly just society I would have one of limousine chairs that gets carried everywhere by a bunch of dancing whatchamacallits. You know, grad students.
Or, you know.
A bus.
I’m sure the passengers on the bus would love a 25 minute detour just to pick me up from my rural farm.
Yeah, isn’t a world where all the transport money’s spent on highways, so fun? Too bad there just isn’t enough for, you know, a couple extra bus routes.
If we aren’t building highways, how are the busses getting to rural communities?
The bus can just take the train
I always told driving is a privilege, not a right.
In a civilised country, driving would be reserved for those capable of doing so safely and efficiently (the qualifications would be on a par with certifications for operating similarly powerful industrial machinery, and would not be graded on a curve to ensure a car-dependent society can function), but infrastructure would be designed so that one could live a full life without driving.
Everyone has the right to drive, provided they can show the required level of skill and competence to do so.
Unfortunately, unskilled and incompetent describes far too many drivers.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Or so im told.
Freedom is a right, but you can still get put in jail.
Equal rights means you are given equal access to the tools that will allow you to learn to drive. If you’re too stupid to drive that’s an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile, “Here, have a gun!”
In the immortal words of George Carlin: “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
everyone should have the right to fail a driving test…
everyone should have equal rights but me. i deserve special rights (a personal hole in the ground to crawl into for crying)
✨fuck cars✨
Right ≠ permission
Yes, and it’s especially obvious with the example of driving. Driving is a licensed activity where you have to pass a competency test before you’re allowed to drive without supervision.
I’ve had the thought that a lot more things should be licensed with a competency test. Like, for example, I don’t know… This is just off the wall and completely random, but maybe a person who runs for President of the United States should have to pass the same exam that people take as part of the process of becoming citizens. Probably the presidential candidates should take a much harder test, but that would require a lot of oversight to make sure the test isn’t made to eliminate specific candidates.
But Trump took a cognitive test, he is good to be president. /s
My mother has Alzheimer’s and I am always with her when she takes that test, so I end up mentally taking the test alongside her. They actually have two different tests, depending on which doctor she sees, a shorter one and a longer one, and my mother mostly gets the shorter one. There’s one part where they list four (five? let’s go with four) words and have you repeat them back to them. Then, they ask you some other questions, and then they ask you to recall those four words again.
Other than misremembering the exact date, which I’m guessing everybody occasionally has the wrong date in their head, that question remembering the four words after being distracted by a different question is the only part where I could ever have lost points, since I have occasionally forgotten one of the words. It’s the only question that I feel a normal person has a chance of missing. It truly is a test specifically for dementia.
The fact that Trump always says the test is difficult and that he got a perfect score on it, given Trump’s history lying about things like winning golf tournaments, I think is absolute proof that he does extremely poorly on the test. He very likely fails it. He brings it up all the time because he’s as bad at lying as he is at everything else. Good liars know not to bring up the lie a lot. Bad liars keep repeating the lie because they’re afraid you might not believe them.
You know he’s lying because his mouth is open.
Assuming he’d open the door himself and not have others do it for him. Also, missing a McDonalds bag in one of his tiny hands.
Equal access also doesn’t mean that abuse and unnecessary risk will be tolerated.
Solid public transport would fix a lot of that but Ford and GM gonna Ford and GM.
People go “ooh, a trolley car!”, when’s the last time you heard anyone go “Ooh, a Lyft”?
Somebody watches CityNerd!
I don’t, I actually got that from my friend who’s son is obsessed with trolleys right now. I’ll have to check them out of that’s a philosophy they jive with
Definitely do check him out, he’s dry humor about cities’ unique challenges and wins for mass transit. On Nebula or any of the YouTube variants
