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> nobody seems to object to the idea of both registering them and requiring a license to drive. I do. It feels so liberating not to have to do those things in
by aianus 11y ago
> nobody seems to object to the idea of both registering them and requiring a license to drive.
I do. It feels so liberating not to have to do those things in countries with corrupt + ineffective policing.
- babuskov 11y agoThen you probably wouldn't mind if someone hit you while rushing through the city at 100MPH.
- aianus 11y agoAnd yet that doesn't really happen. The death rate in Vietnam per inhabitant is only 2x higher than the U.S. which is pretty much all explained by the fact that they drive motorcycles instead of cars.
- babuskov 11y ago"Only" 2x ? That's 250.000 people more. One human life is too much.
- aianus 11y ago> That's 250.000 people more. It's 10,000 people more (in a country of 90M people) not 250,000. And, like I said, it's not due to the lax traffic laws/enforcement, it's due to the average Vietnamese riding a motorcycle instead of a car while wearing a useless brain bucket -style helmet. > One human life is too much. We all die anyways, might as well enjoy ourselves instead of spending all our time and money on insurance and waiting for "stop signs" and "red lights".