✨fuck cars✨
Driving is not a right, it’s a privilege.
In a civilised country, driving would be reserved for those capable of doing so safely and efficiently (the qualifications would be on a par with certifications for operating similarly powerful industrial machinery, and would not be graded on a curve to ensure a car-dependent society can function), but infrastructure would be designed so that one could live a full life without driving.
I always told driving is a privilege, not a right.
everyone should have equal rights but me. i deserve special rights (a personal hole in the ground to crawl into for crying)
Driving is not a right. WAY too many people are allowed to drive. What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive
What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive
That’s exactly why it’s treated as a right. Can’t drive?Can’t live.
I wanted to make a joke about how the American brain simply lacks the part that enables manual locomotion, but our cities straight up do not allow for it. If I cycled to work, it would take me an hour to get there and an hour to get home. I’d love to live within cycling distance of work, but I don’t make enough money to rent in that area, let alone buy
Our cities are deeply unwell, and I don’t think it’s possible to fix them
Wow what a bummer that trains, buses, bikes, electric scooters, and every other mode of rapid, inexpensive transportation has been un-invented. Those would have been really useful literally every moment since they were first invented. If we had those we could treat driving like it was the most dangerous thing people do every day, which it is.
My point is that driving is essential only because the people in power have unilaterally decided that it must be, and fuck them for that.
No, I get it, the problem the way we’ve chosen to build society, but now that it is the way it is, judges and juries are reluctant to ban someone from working and buying groceries for anything less than a prison sentence…
Like it’s pretty crazy to me that the State (USA) can seize you car if you transport drugs with it, but not if yoU literally run over a human being. People with multiple violations and triple-suspended licenses still get to keep their cars.
Everyone has the right to drive, provided they can show the required level of skill and competence to do so.
Unfortunately, unskilled and incompetent describes far too many drivers.
Nobody should have a right to drive on public roads, they should have a right to prove that they deserve the privilege, and the privilege should be revoked a lot more than it is today.
In addition to what a lot of others have said already, in a more egalitarian society most people wouldn’t have to drive
And yeah, equal rights doesn’t mean anyone can just do anything
Well yeah in a truly just society I would have one of limousine chairs that gets carried everywhere by a bunch of dancing whatchamacallits. You know, grad students.
Or, you know.
A bus.
I’m sure the passengers on the bus would love a 25 minute detour just to pick me up from my rural farm.
Yeah, isn’t a world where all the transport money’s spent on highways, so fun? Too bad there just isn’t enough for, you know, a couple extra bus routes.
If we aren’t building highways, how are the busses getting to rural communities?
In the immortal words of George Carlin: “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Easy fix.
everyone should have the right to fail a driving test…
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Or so im told.
Freedom is a right, but you can still get put in jail.
Equal rights means you are given equal access to the tools that will allow you to learn to drive. If you’re too stupid to drive that’s an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile, “Here, have a gun!”
Driving isn’t a right, it’s a privilege
Shouldn’t be forced to drive, the US is deliberately designed to be hostile towards pedestrians in ways that the vast majority of people are unable to do anything about. A good percentage of those people also know damn well they’re bad drivers and would choose anything else if they could
