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