03-04-2007, 01:12 PM
RAMd, I know that driving is a privilege not a right. but why is that? Seriously, I'd like to know the legalities of this. Does this apply to riding a horse on public roads? I don't think setting a finite age to revoke a persons privilege to drive is a good answer. Perhaps this is appropriate for, say, a bus driver, but why should this be a unilateral limitation for all drivers. Slightly off topic, I know for a fact of cases where commercial aircraft certification and pilot verification is performed by persons not elibible to fly passengers because of age limitations. Why do you think that is? It's because age affects people in different ways. And while on the subject of concentration, I presume you're in favour of making it illegal to use your cell phone while driving, even if hands-free, and not granting d/l to anyone who is partially deaf, or has lost the sight from one eye, or suffers from depression, or is easily frightened, or can't handle stress, or has taken cold medication, or....where do you draw the line and on what basis?