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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Cool, care to expalin how it is that you know more about what speeds roads are safe at than say the guys who went to school for 4 years and make a living doing so?
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Just to expand on what has already been said on this one, speeds are set to factor in all drivers and all abilities. For example before my grandfather passed away he stopped driving in the city. If he was going to Winnipeg to visit my parents we would go out and meet him at a coffee shop outside of town, and somebody would drive his car in for him. Not all drivers do this, and continue to drive.
It just boggles the mind that a 10 minute test I took over 20 years ago still qualifies me to operate a 2 tonne vehicle. Never mind people like my grandfather who never took a driving test in his life.
What we should be doing to start with is introducing manditory testing; make sure that people in fact know the rules of the road, and how to drive a car. We all know people who are clueless about rules of the road, and without derailing this thread we all see people doing stupid things behind the wheel that they assume is allowed. Myself I had to perform a task on my driving test in Manitoba that is illegal in Alberta.
The first step to making the roads safer, and then possibly looking at raising speed limits is to introduce testing. Every 5 years sounds right- alternate tests so that every 10 years you end up taking both tests.
And while we are at it, make vision testing another part of that. The last time any DMV tested my vision was when I was 15. I know a lot of people who didn't need glasses as a teenager but need them as adults.