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lets start with cell phones
then IQ tests
raise the minimum driving age to 30
then go after the ederly
and my current rant ... headlamp adjustment on lifted trucks
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Great list Bullwinkle! Bravo and my current rant is also ... "headlamp adjustment on lifted trucks"!!!
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I thought age bias was illegal. Why not base restrictions on medical disabilities and not age. Young insane people can be more dangerous than a older drivers on the road.
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The problem is not the elderly. It's the fact that we can renew a license so easily. If it was a bit more restrictive then they might've caught the old gal's depth perception problem and refused her a license.
My 85 yo grandfather drives perfectly, but I wouldn't get in the car with my 82 yo grandma if my life depended on it. It's not age... it's ability.
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Ever drive in Europe? they require many hours of behind the wheel , the costs average a couple of thousand dollars per driver, much more like getting a pilots license in the us... theory, practice and testing. From changing a tire - yes required to pass. To zippering in merging traffic. Basic physics, "the mass of a moving object increases the square of the velocity" is taught as a fundamental concept... good to know as one blasts down the autobahn at a 100 miles per hour
given the state of our high school education , I am afraid we couldn't get a lot of the graduates over that bar
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I think we need to g back to some basics. When I was in school (I know.... wheels were square and fire was cold) we had to pass a government exam to graduate. We also all had to pass drivers ed AND drivers training. My school actually had a driving course, cars, etc... once we mastered the course we hit the public roads. It was all just part of learning to live in the world.
Maybe we need to revamp education... get back to QUALITY as a concept instead of quantity. I am not trying to hijack this topic. It just seems to all fit in. I had to take a drive test to get my Hawaii license (couldn't find the California one) and as I think about it, this was a good thing. Maybe we need to renew our drivers licenses every 10 years with a performance test, and every 5 years after the age of 55? Of course I am the nut who thinks that liability insurance should be paid when we register our cars too. Just seems that public interest issues should be handled more equitably. Rather like safety checks on cars. It's not a perfect system but it improves the vehicles on the road in general...
So, yes costs would be more but what is our community safety worth?
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quote:
Originally posted by Bullwinkle
Basic physics, "the mass of a moving object increases the square of the velocity" is taught as a fundamental concept...
Not in this universe!
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"Not in this universe!"
going on high speed we should consider, that the energy needed to accelerate the car quadruples with a doubling of the velocity and also the air drag quadruples with double velocity. Therefore, a car cruising on a highway at 50 mph (80 km/h) may require only 10 horsepower (7 kW) to overcome air drag, but that same car at 100 mph (160 km/h) requires 80 hp (60 kW). Twice the speed requires eight times the power.
from the German "handbook" sorry for the oversimplification
and this from one of my old texts - I just had to look it up -
K.E.= 0.5*m*v*v
m is the mass of the object
v is the velocity of the object
KE varies as the square with velocity and directly proportional to mass of the object
So if velocity is increased by 10 times, KE is increased by 100 (10*10) times.
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