It’s my god given right to drive a 5,000lb vehicle. Any attempt to make sure I’m fit to drive this safely is an assault on my god given rights.

  • @[email protected]
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    4511 months ago

    That is a home-made American problem. If you are not living in a city center that happens to have usable public transport, being left without a car makes you an outcast. No shopping, no personal social contacts, no way to visit a doctor, etc.

    • Archmage Azor
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      811 months ago

      It’s not strictly american. I’m not american, and here we have plenty of elderly drivers, it makes me worried when I see them. Luckily we have good public transport too.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        You missed the point. It’s an American problem because our public transport got gutted or never even existed in the first place.

        • astraeus
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          511 months ago

          I don’t think they missed the point, they just expanded that it isn’t only an American problem.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          This is a problem in many countries besides America. The same shit happens in Canada. I remember elderly people crashing cars into buildings on the news occasionally growing up in Fake London, Ontario

    • @[email protected]
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      -311 months ago

      Ok everything except the first to lines is entirely irrelevant. I’m sure if an elderly bus driver drove into someone they would be dragged along for much longer