Driver’s Ed should be a regular thing

Seriously, as a person who has recently attended a driver training class to nix the ticket I got for speeding, I can tell you that people should be required to take classes like that on a yearly basis…at least two or three years.
I learned stuff I’d never heard of before…like where the intersection when two streets cross actually is (it’s not bordered by the crosswalk, folks…crosswalks are recessed so crazy drivers talking on their cell phones or doing their makeup don’t swerve into them, creating people pancakes).
There are so many idiots out on the road these days, it’s not even funny.
One way to combat it: Make getting a license harder – up the minimum age, make it so you have to get a 97% to pass the driving and written tests, impounding the cars of people driving without licenses. Okay, that was ‘some ways’, but they’re all valid.
And the cars themselves! I live in a state that only requires vehicle inspection once…ever. In New York, everyone has to get their vehicles inspected every single year…for the protection of others. I have seen (this is my state I’m talking about) bumpers duct-taped to the vehicle, bungee cords holding up mufflers, plastic trash bags doubling as windows, people driving around with cracks in their windshields that go all the way across. What happens if the bumper falls off, or the plastic bag flies away and blocks someone’s sight or headlights at night cause that crack to shine like lightning? “Accidents.”
It’s dangerous…and costs the taxpayer in the end!
How, you may ask? Well, it costs taxpayers every time some fool smashes into another one out of impatience or failed brakes or bumpers bouncing across three lanes.

Ok, say there’s a crash: Someone dials 9-1-1 (who pays the dispatchers’ salaries? You do), then an ambulance and a fire truck arrive…who pays their salaries and pays for the trucks and maintenance of said personnel and trucks? You do. What happens after everyone is carted away in an ambulance and the cars are towed away? Somebody has to pick up the bits and pieces that would otherwise become lodged in somebody’s tires – possibly puncturing one and causing another accident. Who pays that person’s salary? You do.

So, in the end, the inconvenience of having to stand in line every few years to be tested, proving that your vehicle is worthy of the road and that you actually know how to drive, is nothing compared to the amount of money it’ll save you, the taxpayers.

We can take the money and do something worthwhile, like fix the damn potholes in the roads! Or send some poor kids to college so they can grow up to be president or a scientist or somebody important?

Driver’s Ed…it’s not just for high schoolers anymore.