Quote: in other countries people go to school for upwards of 4-6 months to learn to drive, I went for two weeks. I really think that that we should learn more about driving before we are put on the road and up the speed limits. Also we shouldn't be allowed to use cell phones, in dash DVD players, or any of the millions of distracting gagets on the market today while driving
Not for nothing Arsnel - but you can't have your cake and eat it too. You say you want more personal freedom, and then two periods later your backing it up with more restrictions and more people telling me how to live my life. Which one is it?
Telling someone not to use a cell phone or watch a DVD while driving isn't telling someone how to live their life, it's telling someone not to end my life. In 2003 almost every highway fatatily involved alchol. Studies show that a person talking on a cell phone has the same amount of concentration as someone who's drinking and driving. If you want to smoke pot, by all means, smoke pot. If you want to shoot herione, do it, **** up your life, really, that's your choice. If you want to put my life at risk, I'll get a little upset at that. Since almost all deaths on the highway were caused by alcohol consumption on someones part, speeding isn't putting someone eles's life at risk as long as the proper schooling is implimented like it is in other countries. We're not taught anything but the fundamentals, we're not taught anything about adverse conditions other than to turn into the slide. There is so many aspects of driving we're not taught before we're giving the keys to 2000 pounds of steel and told to figure the rest out for ourselves. That's why I get so much more upset about bad drivers when I'm on my bike than when I'm in my Jeep, if someone hits me when I'm in my Jeep, I'll have to get the insurance company to fix it, they hit me on my bike and that's my life! If I want to risk my life, it's my life to do it with, if someone want's to play with my life, I'll let them know it's not appreciated with the marbles that I keep in my pocket. Speed away as long as you're paying attention but if my life is less important to you than the new DVD you just bought yes I'm gonna get upset.
Let my dying thought be that every mile was fun and let my tombstone read,"They never made one fast enough for me."
