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Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’
(chicago.suntimes.com)
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Commercial license requirements for full sized trucks over a certain size and weight would be an excellent solution. In addition to the increased effort and cost to get one, commercial licenses are way easier to lose.
It depends on the state, but it usually is. It's just very high, like a gvwr of 26k lbs.
Thing is, a CDL covers a bunch of stuff you really don't need to know for something smaller than that, like air brakes. That said, some kind of graduated licensing is called for, here.
Motorcycles, too, while we're at it. It's insane that you can go through MSF and then immediately buy a literbike.
In ny US state motorcycles have a special motorcycle license. Maybe that would be a good starting point for a large vehicle permit that is more than a regilar license.
I agree. It's felt weird each time I've rented a moving truck and was able to drive it myself. They are giant and I'm not used to driving something so big plus no visibility out of the rear of the vehicle. And on top of that, they are so massive that mistakes will hurt more and will be harder to notice while they are happening.
Though even normal licenses are too easy IMO. I haven't been tested or trained on driving in decades. Most people don't know how 2 way stop signs work, I've even had a cop wave me through when it was their right of way. The bar should be higher for getting and keeping a license and lower for losing it. And "but people need cars to get to work and such" addressed with better mass transportation and city planning.