[TheForge] OT - The science of driving.

[Ralph E Douglass]

Andy Vida wrote:
> 
> Bill Alleman wrote:
> >
> > Bruce Freeman wrote on 1/20/2004, 8:47 AM:
> >
> >  > Write a manual of the science of driving.  Include all topics from
> >  > physics, etc., that would aid a driver understand why he should or
> >  > should not behave in such and such a manner.
> >
> > Heh. And you think the _current_ ineffectual training makes the bad
> > drivers' eyes glaze over?
> >
> > The basic problem is that there's no incentive to learn. A driver's
> > license is now considered a right, not the privilege it's intended to
> > be.
> 
>         This is emminently arguable.  The 10th Amendment, IIRC,
>         reserves all non-enumerated rights to "the people", meaning
>         each and every one of us.  The right to travel implies
>         the right to the means to travel just as the right to self
>         defense implies the right to the means of self defense.

The right to travel does not mean to say that you have to drive. Walking
is still free. There are other means of travel. The traveling 'right' is
just that the government can not restict you to one state or county
etc... Unless of course you are a parolee....(smile)\\

Ralph
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