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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (REAL LIFE?!?! HA!!)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: shoud there be two different licences
- Message-ID: <BxL4yr.315@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 04:11:14 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.BxL4yr.315
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- jailbird@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (serial killer) writes:
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- >Hey people,
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- >What do you think about this
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- >Should we have a one licence to operate a manual transmisssion and one for
- >automatic, ecept if you know how to drive a mnual you can drive a auto
- >with no problem. I'm asking this because I almost crashed in to someone
- >who borrowed his friends car with a 5 speed which he didn't know how to
- >drive at all. He was going about 50 in 4th gear and downshifted into first
- >while his tires locked up.
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- >Why should a person be allowed to drive a 5 speed unless he has proven he
- >knows how to? This person could be endangering other people on the road we
- >speak
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- Seems to me like that would be a waste of time and money. Admittedly there is
- a problem with clueless people driving stick shifts, but you could successfully
- argue for any number of such restrictions. For instance:
- Fast cars ( I know of several instances where people borrowed their
- daddy's/boyfriend's/girlfriend's/etc. Mustang/Camaro/etc. and
- proceeded to skid into things (especially bad in the rain))
- Vans/trucks - How many of us have seen the morons in vans that seem to
- think they're driving cars?
- Snow - Should people visiting Chicago from California be allowed to
- drive in December?
- City - Kid from the 'burbs borrows Mom's car to go downtown. Has no
- idea what he's doing.
- There are so many different driving situations that you could never hope to
- regulate them all. One would hope you could expect people to be sensible and
- drive only cars and conditions they can handle. Sadly, this is not the case.
- I think the only governmental solution would be to provide more comprehensive
- driver education, i.e. stickshift, automatic, fwd, rwd, ABS, non-ABS, city,
- country, etc. This isn't very practical either; perhaps the most sensible way
- to handle the problem is to provide very stiff fines in cases where the driver
- is guilty of incompetence related to the situation. Again, this is not prac-
- tical really; it would be difficult to differentiate between negligence and
- pure incompetence.
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- I think the only solution is for us, the learned stick/auto/city/highway/snow/
- rain/etc. ad nauseum drivers to cope is to practice safe defensive driving.
- Sorry.
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