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dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s far easier to get to the grocery store without hitting anything with the car than it is to, say, pass the first level of Super Mario Bros.

Then why don’t we let kids who can beat Super Mario Bros in their sleep (and thus from your perspective have demonstrated the skill required to learn how to drive) drive cars?

Again just because it is easy to aim the steering wheel and press the gas peddle doesn’t mean that every time you so much as drive to the grocery store and back in your car you are literally doing the most dangerous (mandatory) activity in most adult’s lives.

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intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because they can’t reach the pedals or grasp the moral cost of killing people, and those kids failed a lot at Mario Bros before they got that good. We can’t afford to have people fail a lot with cars until they get good.

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skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Then why don’t we let kids who can beat Super Mario Bros in their sleep (and thus from your perspective have demonstrated the skill required to learn how to drive) drive cars?

Well for one they can’t reach the pedals or see over the steering wheel, and the safety systems in the drivers seat are built for adult sized humans. I totally believe the average 10 y/o possesses the mental capacity to operate a motor vehicle though. I was riding dirt bikes around town at that age. Now, their risk assessment abilities might be off, but I’ve seen plenty of people way into adulthood that don’t seem to have those abilities either.

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intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And oh my god did you just call driving mandatory? Why don’t you care what words mean that is ridiculous.

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- dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For the vast majority of Americans having a car is a mandatory part of having a job?
  
  I can’t remember the last job I applied to that didn’t ask specifically whether I had a drivers license and car.
  
  Yes, owning a car is mandatory at least in most places in the US. I don’t like it, but to believe otherwise is a strange distortion of the reality for most.
  
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- starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hi I live in America, the word “mandatory” is definitely apt
  
  I mean, I guess I could add a few hours to my commute by taking buses, but our public transit blows
  
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