It’s my god given right to drive a 5,000lb vehicle. Any attempt to make sure I’m fit to drive this safely is an assault on my god given rights.
It’s my god given right to drive a 5,000lb vehicle. Any attempt to make sure I’m fit to drive this safely is an assault on my god given rights.
That is a home-made American problem. If you are not living in a city center that happens to have usable public transport, being left without a car makes you an outcast. No shopping, no personal social contacts, no way to visit a doctor, etc.
It’s not strictly american. I’m not american, and here we have plenty of elderly drivers, it makes me worried when I see them. Luckily we have good public transport too.
You missed the point. It’s an American problem because our public transport got gutted or never even existed in the first place.
I don’t think they missed the point, they just expanded that it isn’t only an American problem.
This is a problem in many countries besides America. The same shit happens in Canada. I remember elderly people crashing cars into buildings on the news occasionally growing up in Fake London, Ontario
Too bad there’s no Internet.
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140214-the-last-places-without-internet
TLRD: “To truly avoid the internet, then, you have to make a great deal of effort. Even the remotest wilderness now yields a signal of some sort.”
The Internet is not a replacement for real human interaction. Also a lot of elderly people have trouble using it.
Ok everything except the first to lines is entirely irrelevant. I’m sure if an elderly bus driver drove into someone they would be dragged along for much longer