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idk about California but you practically need a car to live comfortably where I live (smaller FL town), if someone were to lose their license here they'd probably just keep driving and hope they don't get caught. We don't have busses, trains, etc. Hell we don't even have a sidewalk to the nearest grocery store that's ~2 miles away.
Coming from a very car centric city, where losing your license is basically isolating you to your immediate neighborhood, I see where you are coming from. It would be difficult to not be able to drive, I would have to put any amount forethought into my daily schedule (Which is arguably a good thing for me personally, but I digress).
I don't give a fuck about anyone's inability to handle such a powerful tool. Power is proportional to responsibility. If a driver gets into ANY vehicle based accident, IT IS assault and battery with a deadly weapon. If it cannot be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the error was 100% a mechanical failure, then the driver should be treated as though they INTENDED to use lethal force with their deadly weapon. You should always be held fully accountable for your intent to operate something that you clearly can't be trusted to control.
Yes, those people who can't handle driving would be isolated to their neighborhoods. Tough shit. Think about how dumb the average person is, then realized that 50% of people are dumber than that. Cities need to build their infrastructure to adapt to the lowest common demoniator, not force people to operate way beyond their capacity. Some people suck and they will always suck and there's nothing you can do. They will never learn how to drive, they will never improve, and they will never pass GO to collect $200. To the city Managers/Engineers/Designers need to stop giving every person unrestricted access to a car just because you are incapable of making a city properly. I don't give a fuck if they have to walk 100 goddamned miles to work. If they cannot get to work without respecting and understanding these dangerous and deadly weapons, then you don't get to use them as a crutch when making your designs.
~~And don't even get me started on fucking gasoline. It's absurd that people can just go get it, then store that shit in their houses in plastic containers. It's absurd that the system allows people that failed high school chemistry to be allowed to handle such a volatile substance.~~