If we built our cities and towns so you don’t need to drive to live a full life, we could be more selective about who gets drivers licences. As it is, for many Australians not being able to drive would make them unable to work.
Australians are atrocious drivers and we know it. Everyone lives up to declare their city/state has the worst drivers.
I think most people are good enough, but then the egos come into play and it ruins it for everyone.
I also think that if you lose your licence you should start again from scratch with your L tests and moving on to a probationary licence.
How about we mandate safer cars? Two ton trucks with 6 foot bull bars and shite viability aren’t helping anyone.
Safer cars are causing their own problems.
Improved Driver assistance systems are making drivers more complacent.
Intrusion protections, crumple zones make vehicles larger and weigh more.
What needs to happen is improved infrastructure so that people who are not competent, not mature enough and not legally permitted to drive don’t need to drive. This will (unfortunately) decimate the Automotive Industry and crash the economy.
It won’t crash the economy, the automotive industry isn’t much of that at all in Australia because we have no manufacturers here anymore
It’s also very easy to keep your drivers license. I drive my elderly mum around, she doesn’t/can’t drive, but she sure as hell has her drivers lic.
My Poppy had his licence all the way up into his 90s. He had to have a driving test every year, and the instructors always told him that he was the most conscientious, observant, law-abiding, driver they ever tested.
After he started having stokes (although never when he was driving), he decided to relinquish his license.
