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It's my god given right to drive a 5,000lb vehicle. Any attempt to make sure I'm fit to drive this safely is an assault on my god given rights.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not strictly american. I'm not american, and here we have plenty of elderly drivers, it makes me worried when I see them. Luckily we have good public transport too.

[–] thoughtorgan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You missed the point. It's an American problem because our public transport got gutted or never even existed in the first place.

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

I don’t think they missed the point, they just expanded that it isn’t only an American problem.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

This is a problem in many countries besides America. The same shit happens in Canada. I remember elderly people crashing cars into buildings on the news occasionally growing up in Fake London, Ontario