To regulate or not to regulate?
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If more regulation, training, and more rigorous licensing didn't do any good, it's very unlike that the German high-speed autobahn would be as safe as it is.
Of course we need better licensing, that's a given. As for who should pay for it, obviously the people who are using it, and ability to perform with your vehicle of choice is stupidly obvious. How in the world can it be safe for a person to drive a Yugo to pick up his 40' diesel pusher, or his 1-ton dually pulling a 40' fifth wheel? That's just ignorant.
Training and licensing should be mandatory, and more testing for the inexperienced, i.e., the younger drivers, and those over 65. These are easy questions, and easy answers. We have high accident rates because drivers are just waved through the testing with no need to have any real ability to drive that multi-ton vehicle they just drove off in.
Of course we need better licensing, that's a given. As for who should pay for it, obviously the people who are using it, and ability to perform with your vehicle of choice is stupidly obvious. How in the world can it be safe for a person to drive a Yugo to pick up his 40' diesel pusher, or his 1-ton dually pulling a 40' fifth wheel? That's just ignorant.
Training and licensing should be mandatory, and more testing for the inexperienced, i.e., the younger drivers, and those over 65. These are easy questions, and easy answers. We have high accident rates because drivers are just waved through the testing with no need to have any real ability to drive that multi-ton vehicle they just drove off in.
