The only people who believe that driving is a privilege and not a right are those who work at DMV (DPS to y'all!).RX8er wrote:
Are there any Europeans here or someone that has lived there for a while? In many countries, Drivers Ed is a very long class period and is a privilege to drive, not a right. Driving is treated way different than here in the US where we feel that it is a right.
Treating driving as a privilege officially will result in one otherwise unattainable good, a complete replacement of every Legislator who is in office when such a law is passed.
When I was last a resident of Texas I had heard that perhaps a third of Texans had bothered to get licenses. I remember checkpoints where every passing car was stopped to check for D/L's. I'm sure with the growing increase in needing ID to cash checks, use credit cards, etc. more than gotten them, but the old birds didn't bother.