Dave Smith wrote:
proffsl wrote:

and let others know that the people with the licenses
had to provide some proof that they were somewhat
competent to drive motor vehicles.

We do not OWE it to the public to prove we are unlikely to
endanger others before being allowed to exercise something
that is our Right.

There is no right to drive a motor vehicle on a public road. It is a
privilege.

I've heard that LIE many times. I use to believe it myself. I have
seen though the LIE. I will be deceived by this LIE no longer. We
have the Right of Locomotion ordinarily used for personal travel on
our public highways. Our public highways were built on OUR property
using OUR money for the purupose of enhancing and increasing the
exercise of OUR Right of Locomotion. But, the more our public
highways are being made unusable by anything but the automobile, the
more this LIE makes us ALL Prisoners of Privilege behind bars of
blacktop.


Driver licensing does nothing for highway safety that laws against
endangerment didn't already serve.

You can repeat that mantra until the cows come home,

And, you can not refute it.


but it won't make it true.

It's true because it's true, not because I say so. I say so, because
it's true.


The fact is that licensing does make the roads safer.

You can repeat that mantra until the cows come home, but it won't make
it true.


Virtually everybody who tries, successfully gets a driver license.

Most of those who fail eventually get one, sometimes after a number
of road tests. They learn from their mistakes and improve their driving
skills to the point where they can pass.

They learn to do what is expected of them in order to pass the test.
That doesn't change one bit their ability to drive safely. Virtually
everybody over the age of 12 CAN drive safely. The question isn't if
they CAN drive safely, but rather if they WILL drive safely. More than
98% of all highway accidents are caused by WILLFUL acts of
negligence. Driver licensing CAN NOT test if someone WILL drive
safely.


Those who end up taking it twice, usually falied their first attempt
not because of an inability to drive safely, but rather due to
confusing questions.

Oh yeah... trick questions..... At the next intersection turn left. At the
next intersection turn right. At the next intersection follow the signs.

Questions, as I saw on one test, such as "When passing another
vehicle, should you pull back into the right hand lane after seeing
one or two of their headlights in your rear view mirror?" If you
answer TWO, BZZZZT Wrong! I'm sure there are numerous other examples
of just such questions.

The reason their questions are vauge and confusing, is so that it
makes it appear as if driver licensing tests actually serve a purpose,
by ensuring that people who CAN dive safely will fail the test anyway.

You could run 1000 proven safe drivers through the test, and I would
dare say about the same percentage of them would fail the test as do
the newbies. Not due to their inability to drive safely, but due to
confusing questions, and even due to driver intemidation during the
driving tests.


Virtually everybody over the age of 12 CAN drive a car safely.
The question is WILL they drive safely, and driver licensing CAN
NOT answer that question.

Demonstrating ability and compliance for a test is obviously not a
guarantee that they will drive safely later on. Most of the scariest
road tests I took out were the senior drivers who had acquired 50
years or more of bad habits.

I expect that people who exercise their Rights in a dangerous fashon
be denied of those Rights. I support laws against endangerment. You
have the Right to Drive safely. You do not have a Right to Drive, or
anything else, in a fashon that endangers the Rights of others.
Driver Licensing serves no purpose to highway safety that laws against
endangerment didn't already serve.

You want to see our highways become safer, push for stricter
prosecution of those people who do drive dangerously. By Due Process
of Law, deny them of their Right to Drive, and if they violate that
ruling, deny them of their Right of Liberty. Put them in jail. ALL of
this can be done without Driver Licensing.