It would be sick if we could have any god damn respect for the >2000 pound metal box we call cars. You are operating heavy machinery so treat it with the respect and care it requires of you.
Also, kind of amazed there was no further investigation by the police into the prior crashes that were also involving high speeds.
Hot take - what if we don’t allow anyone other than trained professional drivers to drive in cities and create walkable neighborhoods with public transit.
Preventing deaths is a policy issue, not an issue of individual teenagers deciding whether or not to drive safely.
Yeah that’s what Europe has done. You never need a car to go anywhere. Every place is well connected by public transport.
USA is however designed differently. even if there is a grocery store or Walmart right next to your residence it will be separated by a green wall and then connected with a round about ending in a parking lot.
Apart from New York and few other cities most of the American cities have gone to great lengths so you don’t have to step out of your car.
There is a Target right next to a Petco in my area. The parking lots touch each other, not even a grass median between them. But they put up a tall fence between them so there is no way to go from one store to the other without driving out of the parking lot of one, onto a main street, and then turning into the other parking lot. And if you go to Target first, you have to turn left onto a street that has a median and have to go do a U Turn farther down the street to get to Petco.
18 and 19 year olds are teenagers who are adults; what gets me is when 17 year olds are referred to as “children”. They’re minors, sure, but child means pre-puberty.
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