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- From: thos@suite.sw.oz.au (Thomas Cohen)
- Subject: Re: shoud there be two different licences
- Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:24:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <thos.721862684@suite.sw.oz.au>
- References: <1992Nov12.013141.7090@wam.umd.edu> <15458@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In <15458@auspex-gw.auspex.com> tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett) writes:
-
- >While we're at it, maybe we should also license bike riders, skateboarders,
- >and every one else whatever they are doing. There are all kinds of
- >things the government has neglected to regulate and license. And
- >remember, if you're licensed, what you're doing is no longer a right,
- >it is a privilege granted by our benevolent government.
-
- Damn right.
-
- >My question is:
-
- >Why should they license a person for a manual transmission?
-
- Why should they license people to drive at all? Or fly, or whatever?
- Because, whether or not you like it, driving a car is a privilege,
- granted by the government. It allows you to drive a vehicle, that
- can cause enormous damage if used improperly. Driving a manual
- is not a difficult trick to learn, and the sooner people learn it
- in their driving experiences, the less difficult it is.
-
- Don't you have different grades of licences over there? Here, I
- can drive any truck as long as it is not articulated (or not towing
- a pole trailer longer than 6 metres) - would you prefer that anyone
- could do such a thing? I would just see it as a different grade of
- license, with all the reasons behind it for the other grades of
- license - you can be a menace to others if you're not used to driving
- a manual.
-
- Personally speaking, all my learning was on a manual, and I was
- lucky enough to do my initial driving up and down the driveway
- until I didn't really have to think about shifting.
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