Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccs020
From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.auto
Subject: Re: Driving as a right or privilege
Message-ID: <189@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 18:08:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.189
Posted: Thu Oct 24 18:08:54 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 03:46:13 EDT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Lines: 23
Xref: watmath net.flame:12481 net.auto:8543

In California, it is far too easy to get your license, the test is
just too simple.  The written part is all BS and the practical part
barely covers anything really practical.

16 year old kids are let loose on the road with only the most basic
of basic skills learned.  They are not prepared to handle situations
that occur on the road.  I'm amazed that insurance companies even
cover them at all.  I know that I was not a safe driver when I first
got mt license, even though I though I was.  

Now I know that it is a catch-22 situation, since it takes experience
to become a safer driver, but a harder drivers' test would help to
keep some of the more inept drivers off the road.

Before I took my test, a friend said to me, "Don't worry about passing,
just think of all of the stoners and losers who make it."

I think that says it all.

-- 

	--Kevin Chu
	..!{ucbvax,lll-crg,dual}!ucdavis!vega!ccs020