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Yeah, it's not great. Unfortunately, a car is basically required to hold any kind of job in most of the US, aside from the (expensive) cores of few select citie
by mjhay 3y ago
Yeah, it's not great. Unfortunately, a car is basically required to hold any kind of job in most of the US, aside from the (expensive) cores of few select cities. That's doubly true for low-income folks. It's effectively impossible to enforce safety regs when a large part of the population simply can't afford to maintain a safe vehicle. The alternative is even worse mass homelessness. For similar reasons, extremely dangerous drivers basically never get their license taken away.
I live in a snowy place, and the number of people I see running absolutely bald summer tires in the winter is horrifying.
- WillAdams 3y agoMaybe if the police would enforce the laws for proper equipment we could reduce accidents caused by lack of maintenance and that reduction could result in a savings on insurance which would help make things more affordable. That said, one doesn't have to have a car to get to work --- for almost 5 years, rather than put miles on my truck I rode a bicycle to work, and in the past I've walked to work at need --- hoping to get back to riding to my new job, just waiting for a connecting road through a development to be finished and the ride will become markedly shorter, facilitating this.