Re: Driver's Licences (was: Quotas(little or no Audi Content))

["Music Research Corp." <mureco@telenet.net>]

Hello All!

        Automobile Licensing has changed for the better (extended trial
periods) in a few of our states (Illinois and Indiana) but too many are
still not taking a positive stand.  An exception is Pennsylvania. They have
an "experimental" program in place for the last two years where the Drivers
Ed. Teacher is the person who issues the license after having the youngster
(s) in his (her) class for at least twenty weeks.  Do any of you from
Pennsylvania  have knowledge as to how this is working out?

Wayne Scheer
Amsterdam, NY

'87 5K with 248K
'89 100 with 120K
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Mruss <rmruss@pangea.ca>
To: 'quattro@coimbra.ans.net' <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Saturday, October 31, 1998 11:04 PM
Subject: Driver's Licences (was: Quotas(little or no Audi Content))


>I'm behind in my reading, so this post is about a week late, but I
wholeheartedly agree with John about the ease with which people can secure a
driver's licence.  I don't know what's involved with the driving tests in
the various places other listers live, but here in Manitoba, the road test
consists of twenty or so minutes of city driving, plus some parallel
parking.  I have no idea how this ensures that you're able to drive on the
highway, but that's all there is to it.  This might explain why there are so
many terrible drivers around, loafing in the left lane on the highway, and
either looking baffled or getting angry if you have the NERVE to flash your
brights in their rear-view mirror to tell them to get into the right lane.
>
>Our insurance here is through a government-run insurance agency (a model of
efficiency, of course), which seems to keep raising the cost of insurance,
and spending large sums of money on TV or billboard ads to tell us that
"Speed Kills", when anyone with a brain knows that the vast majority of
accidents are caused by poor drivers who have no idea how to drive properly
and no interest in learning.  You'd think that if their goal was to make the
roads safer they would invest some money on better driver training and a
longer and more difficult road test, but that will never happen.  Nor will
periodic re-testing, which I think would go a long way toward getting bad
drivers off the road, because, let's face it, some people just should not be
driving.
>
>just my .02
>
>Jeff Mruss
>From owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net  Sat Oct 31 23:06:23 1998