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On 22 Apr 1996 15:40 CST, Gumby <msw5513@vms1.tamu.edu> wrote:
>Saad Mir <mirs@ix.netcom.com> writes...
 >
 >>I am not really sure what your take is. 
 >>Do you think kids should be trained in driver's ed to handle high speed?  
 >
 >Yep.  The drivers test should comprehensive.  If someone can't demonstrate
 >the ability to handle a situation, they shouldn't be licensed to legally
 >be in that situation.  It would be like selling physician's licenses,
 >and revoking them only after gross violation of the rules that apply to
 >being a doctor.  You wouldn't put your life in the hands of these people,
 >but you do when you get on the road with all the incompetent drivers.

	Hold on to your seat. Lots of people choose doctors this way.
	Even fewer can tell you what the surgeon did in the OR when
	having major surgery. "Hey where's my head?"

 >
 >I got the M endorcement added to my license recently.  The test was
 >"pull out, take four rights, pull back in the lot."  I got the license.
 >That was the first day I had ever ridden a motorcycle on a street (I
 >rode around a parking lot a few times to get ready for the test).

	I drove my bike Up to the DPS office, since the guy driving
	the car didn't have a motorcycle license either.
 >
 >That is just one example of the incompetent people on the road (I have
 >since taken rider training).
 >
 >>Do you think kids should be trained to drive the posted limits, even if
 >>they have learners and hardships and so on with their limited experience,
 >>youthful exhuberance, and so on?  
 >
 
	One successful afternoon around loop 610 should do it.
	
 >Yep.  My driving has gotten consistently worse as I've gotten older.
 >I drove better at 16 than I do at 23.  As people get older, they get
 >more confident.  Just because someone has been driving for years doesn't
 >mean they ever learned to do it right.
 >
 	Well, turn in your license. put your money where your mouth is.
 
>The most dangerous driver are the young and the old.  The older drivers 
>actually have more accidents than the younger drivers.

	Let me guess. You are saying this because you consider yourself
	to fall into neither category? That about sum it up?
 >
 >>I still think about a really bad wreck that happened not far from 
 >>my childhood home, where 4 teens met a concrete retainer at 40mph 
 >>in a brand-new mustang just presented to the driver hours before.  
 >>The driver was "unimpaired" by anything other than sheer excitement.  
 >>Oh, they all died.  Sorry if that's really depressing. 
 >
 
 	Since there are about 270,000,00 people in the US, and a
	substantial fraction of those folks drive, what is the 
	statistical likely hood that this kind of thing will
	never happen. OK, how about that some time from early
	childhood until now, that it wouldn't happen not far
	from your childhood home? Is this where actuaries for
	allstate come from mom?
	
 >Was that the prom night thing, where the people in the back seat were
 >alive when the FD got there, but they couldn't get them out?
 >
 	What! once the File Device arrived they could do what?

>Marc

	Gee, I'm now so worked up that I'd write to my congressperson,
	but I don't think (s)he can read and I don't have pictures that
	I can send with html.
	
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