DMV Driver's License Test?

This post is basically going off of something I saw earlier while driving to work.

I was in the On-Ramp for I-95 going 45 in a 65 behind this old lady while there's a line of cars coming over the nearest hill, I begin to get up on her tail trying to nudge over so that I can merge without causing other people to have to jam their brakes. I proceed to accelerate as she slows down. Finally I get over, and begin to pass as I glance over, the bitch was on her cell phone and holding a starbucks in the other hand....





Which brings me to here. I belive firmly that there should be MUCH harder restrictions to get your license. I know for a fact when I had taken mine when I was 16 (late getting the test done) it was one of the easiest tests I've ever taken, shit the one for my learner's was harder than that. I know TONS of people that probably shouldn't be trusted behind the wheel of a moving object/vehicle etc, and I'm sure most of you do as well.

I know some of the 'younger' crowd already feels that it is TOO hard to get their license, and quite frankly, they have no effing clue what they're talking about. I know I was there at one point myself, but now that I can see what older people we're bitching to me about back in the day, the whole picture is much more clear...

As for OLDER citizens, I'm all down for respecting them and giving them their rights to drive, which is ALSO a PERFECT reason to RE-Test them after they hit the begenning of their Golden Years (65-67 SENIOR CITIZENS!!) And every 5 years afterwards they should be retested. Shit, for Repeat DUI offenders are treated much worse and never even given a chance, why not take the Older folks off of the road that are putting us at as much of danger as anyone else? ....Exactly..




I rest my case. Beef up driving standards for all age groups. I doubt anyone will argue this, but I am just curious to see what everyone else thinks,


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I agree.

My test was stupidly easy, and drivers here are stupidly stupid. Old people need to be periodically tested.

I was thinking more of a 1 or 2 year test.

Yeah true, but 5 being the Minimum in-between, though the older generation age so much faster after they hit that point, but really the 65 mark is atleast a good place to be re-tested.

They can't really step up driving regulations without getting a fairly competent Mass Transit system going in most areas.

Driving may be a privlege rather than a right, but in many, many places not driving simply isn't an option.

I totally agree with you in spirit though, I fucking hate stupid drivers putting others at risk.

Repeat DUI offenders are treated much worse and never even given a chance,

They apparently were given chances since they were able to repeatedly drive while under the influence.

I've known people to get DUIs after DUIs and not shit was done until their 4th one when they didn't even have a license x_X. If anything I think people who get DUIs should be punished rather sternly after their 2nd one.

Anyways, old people should be retested to make sure they have the reflexes and attention span to handle driving.

Well if you fuck up in Europe they snip your license and put you under the jail!

I can see that happening in France, definitely. The French police also have a quaint habit of taking a drivers license, putting it in his pocket, and then denying that they have it, just to get the driver in trouble - of course, they only do this to English/American drivers.

Haha, my british chemistry professor hated the French. He called them Froggies.

I call them pussy bastards that stink like what comes out of my behind.

It's an British thing.

They apparently were given chances since they were able to repeatedly drive while under the influence. I've known people to get DUIs after DUIs and not shit was done until their 4th one when they didn't even have a license x_X. If anything I think people who get DUIs should be punished rather sternly after their 2nd one. Anyways, old people should be retested to make sure they have the reflexes and attention span to handle driving.

I agree, actually I've got a relative that has been getting DUI's and frankly, the family is tired of him etc etc, it's a big mess. And he JUST got pulled overa again, technically his 6th DUI pullover (he's also been in a car chase as a teenager, while under the influence) and he got let off, again. I really wish they'd just give him some jailtime.

My buddy got 45 days in jail for 2 DUIs. The first one they let slide, the 2nd one he got like 10 days in jail and probation, and then he violated his probation by getting a PI (Public Intox.) and was sent back to jail for 35 days.

Yeah see in my relatives case he didn't even get probation, which is honestly some shit, I mean he is a nice guy and all, but he's a moron and drives around drunk all the time, and hasn't served hard time yet, so it needs to be taken care of, actually I think he may have a court date coming up soon.... hmm

Don't get me started on elderly drivers. My friends have heard many rants from me before about those confused souls lol. I've been saying they should be re-tested every year for a while now.

I was actually talking with my dad about this the other day. He believes, the reason that it is easier to get a license now, is because we have so many illegal immigrants coming here who don't know our rules that the government has toned down the test to make it easier for them. I agree with him on this to a point. Some of it is also people complaining because they think it is too hard until the government does something about it.

I just recently started to learn to drive. I used to think people on the road were stupid...and now I really know they are. I hate it when I am going the speed limit (or usually a little over most times), and people are in such a big hurry that they still have to ride your ass. I don't know about them, but I would rather not get pulled over.

In 90% of places, simply not driving is NOT an option. Public Transportation isn't developed enough to make it to where individual driving is a matter of choice, really.

They don't really have any choice to let almost everyone drive, the country's economy would collapse at this point in time as no one could work more than a few miles away from their place of residence, and even those of us in bigger cities would still have multiple hours in transit, leaving us fairly unable to regularly spend our money on luxuries such as going out to dinner/etc.

Well, after getting run off the road on the way to work this morning (well for the most part, an old lady in a GIANT FUCKING HUMMER changed lanes basically into my car, stupid old bitch.

I feel it's time to renew the arugment, possibly submitting a letter to my local congressman.

Here an elderly man crashes into a Casino.




Not much to the video, but seriously..
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/03/nev...ex.html?hpt=T2

something needs to be done.