Continuing Education for driver's license requirements

[Anonymous]

I think we should have Continuing Education as a requirement for renewing a driver's license. I am 40, so it's been 25 years since I took a driver's ed course. The law has changed, most people in the world are not living in the same state or region as where they learned how to drive originally so we don't know how their laws and roads are different. Most states don't require even a written test to get a license if you move out of state. It just stays with you forever. You learn how the road/car works at 15 years old and you can drive until you're 100! It can be simple, 5 hours every 5 years, done online.

What do you all think?

[Anonymous]

Nobody got time for all that.

[Anonymous]

Sounds communist. This is the land of the free.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like my yearly IT training. It's a good idea, but they make it possible for everyone to pass. So the training winds up being "Identity the blue cup in the picture." It checks a box, but does nothing to educate.

[Anonymous]

Yes there should be. But hell even a 30 minute session would make a world of difference. There are so many ignorant drivers out there. They are a huge source of road rage when they have completely incorrect beliefs on how traffic should flow. But some of the people I have talked to have clearly never been informed of things like merging and using thr left lane and so on.

[Anonymous]

Trump should propose it. MAGA will support it, libs will instinctively oppose it, and therefore it’ll never happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump should propose it. MAGA will support it, libs will instinctively oppose it, and therefore it’ll never happen.

Hah, I could see either party proposing it and the opposite party opposing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump should propose it. MAGA will support it, libs will instinctively oppose it, and therefore it’ll never happen.

4 D Chess

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump should propose it. MAGA will support it, libs will instinctively oppose it, and therefore it’ll never happen.

Drivers licenses are handled by the states.

[Anonymous]

I agree. I think you should have to show continuing education or skill building in order to retain your license.

At 16, you can get a basic provisional license. At 21, you should have to retake a harder, more involved road test in order to get your unrestricted license. If you fail the road test twice, you have to go back to a learners permit until you can pass.

After being licensed for 8 years, you should be required to know how to drive a manual transmission. After 12 years, you should have to be qualified on a motorcycle. At 20 years, you should be required to pass a CDL test.

The idea would be to force people to continually build new skills that make them better, safer, drivers.

[Anonymous]

The only lessons I want it to teach are about traffic
—speeding up just to brake creates an immense amount of traffic behind you
—if a highway is almost stop and go, and you’re going 65 then 15, 65 then 15, it would be better and faster if possible for everyone to start going 45. They will get home faster in fact!! And the smoothness would allow everyone to speed up
-if you’re on a highway that eventually has left turns or exists, for about 1-2mi before it, it is no longer “the fast lane.” For example I she a highway with right exits. But past the last exit, it becomes a series of lights. I have to turn left at any of three spots (along with thousands of other people). I try to speed up to get into the left lane, go with the flow, and sometimes people freak out that I’m in the fast lane. I’m turning left at a light in a 1/2 mile. AND I’m going 10-20 over the limit. Grandmas are also entitled to be able to turn left there too, it’s not a fast lane anymore.

[Anonymous]

Sorry for typos. Sitting with my child as they fall back asleep in middle of the night

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we should have Continuing Education as a requirement for renewing a driver's license. I am 40, so it's been 25 years since I took a driver's ed course. The law has changed, most people in the world are not living in the same state or region as where they learned how to drive originally so we don't know how their laws and roads are different. Most states don't require even a written test to get a license if you move out of state. It just stays with you forever. You learn how the road/car works at 15 years old and you can drive until you're 100! It can be simple, 5 hours every 5 years, done online.

What do you all think?

Or what? Would people lose their license if they didn't do it?

Nobody is going to support that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds communist. This is the land of the free.

😝

So true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds communist. This is the land of the free.

😝

So true.

There shouldn't even be driver's licenses required. Ability test, fine. But no loisense to travel.