Opinion: It's too easy to get a driver's licence in Australia - Drive
Opinion: It's too easy to get a driver's licence in Australia - Drive
The barriers to entry for driving on Australian roads are not high enough. Here's why it's a problem.
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How about we mandate safer cars? Two ton trucks with 6 foot bull bars and shite viability aren't helping anyone.
Safer cars are causing their own problems.
Improved Driver assistance systems are making drivers more complacent.
Intrusion protections, crumple zones make vehicles larger and weigh more.
What needs to happen is improved infrastructure so that people who are not competent, not mature enough and not legally permitted to drive don’t need to drive. This will (unfortunately) decimate the Automotive Industry and crash the economy.
It won't crash the economy, the automotive industry isn't much of that at all in Australia because we have no manufacturers here anymore
By “Automotive Industry”, I am referring to all the Service Industry relating to keeping cars on the road. Sales, Parts, Repairs, Fuel, Roadwork, Insurers.
Next time you drive though an industrial estate, look at all the business who rely on people maintaining and crashing their cars. All those inefficient little businesses would be either rendered obsolete or would become a little bit more niche.
Next time you drive through a Shopping Centre, you will notice at least one Supercheap, Repco and/or Autobarn. There will also be at least one Tyrefitter and probably a service centre too.
If everyone started using (much more efficient) public transport, all these wasteful businesses would no longer be needed and less money would be changing hands in the Private sector.
It'd be a gradual shift, not a shock change. Those businesses would gradually close rather than ask at one and the economy would chug on