To regulate or not to regulate?
Thank you all for responding to this post, I have the answers to my questions and truly appreciate your civility and your thoughts, I will no longer be following the thread as I am satisfied with you...
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fj12ryder wrote:Bionic Man wrote:Disagreement with people doesn't make me wrong. People certainly are allowed their opinions even when they are wrong. Happens all the time, and many times in the past. Popular belief is not a criteria for the correct action.fj12ryder wrote:
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.
I'd suggest you read the comments posted prior to yours before you emphatically come across with "of course" and "that's a given". Because most folks here don't agree with you.
Lots of people drive poorly simply because they have not been trained properly. Good/safe driving is a complicated task, and for some reason this country seems to think it is innate in any person that can walk through a door and correctly answer a dozen questions on a test, and drive a car around the block without running into anything.
I lived and drove in Germany for 2 1/2 years and discovered first hand how poorly Americans are trained. It's not that we can't be trained, it's simply we aren't given the opportunity.
And the fact that you lived in Germany (or any other assertion you make) doesn't make you right. Back off on your holier than thou attitude. There are plenty of examples where government regulation did not improve a situation. Probably many more than where it actually did have a positive outcome.
