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Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Or on your motorcycle in 15.

Everyone with the usual compliment of legs should be forced to start on a motorcycle or moped. After 2 years of that we let you graduate to having a roof. Riding a motorcycle will force you to learn how to remain attentive and focused 100% on operating your machine, and when you’re finally afforded the luxury of a roof and heat, not having to get rained and snowed on half the year, you’ll really appreciate what you’ve got instead of treating it like the world owes you a car.

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MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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- ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
  
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  - Corn@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
    
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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.
  
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  - MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?
    
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