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>IMHO, the problem has more to do with the entitlement around driving. People don't view it as a privilege. Large parts of the US have little to no public tran
by wing-_-nuts 6y ago
>IMHO, the problem has more to do with the entitlement around driving. People don't view it as a privilege.
Large parts of the US have little to no public transit, and can only be accessed via car. You can't say driving isn't an entitlement and then arrange your infrastructure in such a way as to require driving.
- pnutjam 6y agoWelcome to the USA. You shouldn't, but you certainly can and we have. Read any laws about driving licenses and reasons for suspension.
- vkou 6y agoThe problem is that the laws are trying to thread a needle between two entirely contradictory ideas - that it is both well and normal to build the world in a matter that expects everyone to drive - and that driving is a privilege that can be revoked from you. You can't legislate, or law your way out of a basic contradiction in your society, so we end up in a middle ground where nobody is happy. For another example of a basic contradiction - we allow and encourage people to drive intoxicated (After all, bars have parking lots, and do not enforce that every group have a designated driver), but not too intoxicated, and not in a manner that is too unlucky. The bar between the two is either an objective test from a breathalyzer device (a test that you can't take until you are pulled over - and one sets the bar too low for many people, in my opinion), or a fully subjective test of 'did you get into an auto accident, while sitting at 0.05 BAC'?