• @MangoCats@feddit.it
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    118 hours ago

    Lifetime care for the additional seriously injured will be very expensive…

    I live in a retirement center, here it is very obvious that driving licenses should be revoked when vision, reflexes and other driving skills reach the level of the average 75 year old. But, since the majority of voters here are retirees- instead they keep making it easier for the extremely elderly to keep driving themselves - because, of course the world can’t take their freedom of movement away from them.

    • @ManOMorphos@lemmy.world
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      214 hours ago

      In the US, it seems supporting policies that make the elderly retake the driving exam is complete political suicide. There is a good reason for it and it would keep people safe, but there’s no chance of it happening while the population that mostly votes is old.

      • @Corn@lemmy.ml
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        29 hours ago

        Im not sure how true that is, at least FL requires you to renew your license more frequently as you get older. Idk if its just a vision test though.

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          9 hours ago

          I may be biased from seeing what I see in my state, lol. Families have to beg them to stop driving after they crash into a building, no political will exists to change things. There’s more states than I thought that require additional driving exams, at least in certain circumstances.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      115 hours ago

      I propose the following amendment, then: If you cause harm to a two wheeled rider due to negligence and/or belligerence, you get busted down to a Vespa for a further 5 years.

      • @MangoCats@feddit.it
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        114 hours ago

        Nice thought, but how will the rich demonstrate their status from a Vespa? Perhaps by paying off the judge so they don’t get restricted?