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0 pointsbsder7mo ago0 comments

> A requirement to start re-testing normal people in addition to the elderly would be a large benefit to society.

1) Are you going to fund that? Because it means a significant increase in testing examiners.

2) The data say over and over and over that the single best traffic safety enhancement would be to ban drivers until they are 21. People have to be in their 80s(!) before they are as bad as drivers in their teens and early 20s.

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hamdingers7mo ago

1. The people who want to drive should fund their own testing. This is how it works for every other heavy equipment operator's license.

2. Sounds good

dmurray7mo ago

1) could reasonably be self funded. $150 per driver every 5 years is a rounding error compared to all the other costs of car ownership.

2) how much of this is because the drivers are young, and how much because they are inexperienced? If you ban teenage drivers, your 22-year-old drivers will still be inexperienced.

Alex-Programs7mo ago

Is that because they're young, or because they're inexperienced?

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