Comments on: The Truth About Cars | German Speed Limits: I Can’t Drive 155? http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/246       goolsbee.org, serving useless content from an undisclosed location since 1997 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: gondwana http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/246#comment-606 gondwana Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:38:25 +0000 http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/246#comment-606 much the same here.... kids can get a learners licence (theory only) at 15 (too young) and have to have held that for 6 months before doing practical to get their restricted licence and then after a period (12 months I think) of restricted driving hours and no passengers they can try to get their full licence - which has a tougher practical test - www ltsa govt nz factsheets58 html (you fill in the dots and forward slashes) .... but still nothing major on the practical side of things... Jerome much the same here…. kids can get a learners licence (theory only) at 15 (too young) and have to have held that for 6 months before doing practical to get their restricted licence and then after a period (12 months I think) of restricted driving hours and no passengers they can try to get their full licence - which has a tougher practical test - www ltsa govt nz factsheets58 html (you fill in the dots and forward slashes) …. but still nothing major on the practical side of things…

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]]> By: Dan O'Donnell http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/246#comment-601 Dan O'Donnell Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:42:53 +0000 http://chuck.goolsbee.org/archives/246#comment-601 I don't know about Washington State, but the crappy roadway conditions of the freeways and highways in California are a general deterrent to high speed travel here. And yeah, we have such low qualifying requirements that people in their 80s and 90s can regularly and easily qualify to renew their drivers licenses. Witness the 86 year old guy who killed 10 people in the Santa Monica Farmers' Market was driving on a legal license. He "missed the pedal" - thought he was pressing the brake... I was backed into in a supermarket parking lot by a 80something guy - how can someone miss a white Montero that is filling their rear view mirror because it is less then two meters behind them? They miss it because they are too incompetent to look behind. I don’t know about Washington State, but the crappy roadway conditions of the freeways and highways in California are a general deterrent to high speed travel here.

And yeah, we have such low qualifying requirements that people in their 80s and 90s can regularly and easily qualify to renew their drivers licenses. Witness the 86 year old guy who killed 10 people in the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market was driving on a legal license. He “missed the pedal” - thought he was pressing the brake…

I was backed into in a supermarket parking lot by a 80something guy - how can someone miss a white Montero that is filling their rear view mirror because it is less then two meters behind them? They miss it because they are too incompetent to look behind.

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