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> You use your driving expertise to stay on the road and if you do not have the skill-set to do that, you shouldn't be driving. Unfortunately, in most many pla
by ArtB 14y ago
> You use your driving expertise to stay on the road and if you do not have the skill-set to do that, you shouldn't be driving.
Unfortunately, in most many places in North America you cannot function in society without a vehicle thus even if you know you shouldn't be drive the penalty is so great that almost all keep on driving. If there were reasonable alternatives like mass transportation then we could reasonably expect thus unqualified to use them, but in suburbia mass transit does not work.
To me this is as rediculous campaigns against drunk driving that don't push for local busses to operate until at least an hour after bars close.
tl;dr: one cannot reasonably expect people to behave responsibly without there being reasonable alternatives
- malandrew 14y agoActually there is a reasonable alternative: Don't live in cities that fail to provide a reasonable alternative. A car is only a reasonable alternative in rural areas and as a mode of inter-city transport.
- ArtB 14y agoI think in Canada that describes only 3 cities, and even then a lot of the tech companies are on the outskirts since the offices are cheaper.
- westicle 14y agoWhat about personal responsibility? The answer to "society hasn't provided me with a convenient way to get around without a significant risk of killing someone" is not "oh wells! bad luck pedestrians!" Where it comes to a situation where they might kill someone, I do expect people to behave responsibly.
- ArtB 14y agoSo but it is more like "I can't get a job, or live where I can afford because I'm too easily distracted to be a good driver and I might kill someone, but it's that too likely since there are lots of shitty drivers and not that many people die and I don't really have alternatives." I bus to work, but I wouldn't work minimum wage if all the good jobs required commuting; I'd just be another shitty driver. It's not selfish either, it's selfish of you to expect me to give up anything resembling a normal life to make you a little safer.