01-23-2006, 08:07 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 25,540
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Originally Posted by mld4ds
Howdy Liebling,
You surely are stubbornly attempting to win some points on this debatable issues.
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 I only answer your questions in your previous posts... I only speak out of my mind and feeling.. 
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First of all, please do not surf any driving and drinking articles in U.S.A. Please provide your AD readers about driving and drinking articles in Great Britain and/or Germany. We the North Americans are not much aware of your Europeon views espeically Germany in Kids' drinking and driving. All we know about Prince Harry's troubles.
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Yes, I have... Yes, we talked about Europe in our previous posts in my thread here until my last response post to Vampy.
http://www.alldeaf.com/showpost.php?...3&postcount=68
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Yet, in most states, teens are allowed to get a permit at 15 and a license at 16. If the permit age were pushed up to 16, and if kids were required to hold the permit for a year before getting a license, there would be a substantial reduction in the deaths of teen drivers and their passengers. In England, the driving age is 17, and in Germany, it is 18. Both countries have lower teen fatality rates than the United States. [DSA note: This is despite these countries having factors which should make matters worse, such as higher speed limits and many small cars, etc., so this article is clearly making an accurate and highly important point.]
Raising the driving age to 17 would disappoint 16-year-olds who have come to see getting a license as a rite of passage. It would foment an uproar among the growing numbers who have bamboozled their parents into thinking that they are entitled to a new car on their 16th birthday. And many parents would not be too happy to have to wait a year to stop driving their teens around or to delegate the chauffeuring of younger kids to teen drivers.
But any responsible parent would gladly make that sacrifice to avoid the grief that I witnessed last month, when one of my students was killed as she rode with a 16-year-old driver whom police have charged with reckless driving.
http://www.driveandstayalive.com/inf...es/2004-11.htm
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As Reba said, we do not have much time to ride our bikes to work becasue of long trip and weathers. I reside in Washington Metro that does provide the public transportation. However, as I born and rised, in Kansas there are not much public transportation for the low-paid employees for the long distance between points. When I worked for RV/Shuttle company in small town in late 1980s, I have seen many poor farmers working there for additational paychecks. They still also work at their own farms extra hours. That's why they had to drive their trucks to work since they do not have much time to wait for the public transportation. Moreover, they also do not want to pay more tax on the public transportation for small towns in Kansas except big cities.
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Oookayyy - What's about public bus? example about children school bus if the children lives in outside of city (farm/countryside).. What about that?
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I am sure that European governments wants to support the public transportation so that they want to reduce the unemployment rates. If I want to travel to Europe or German, I will be happly to use the public transportation....
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It has nothing do with unemployment rates reduction because public transportation was started long long time ago before unemployment rates go up.
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If you want to visit small towns for vacation or short trip in North America, rental car expense is more cheaper than using the public/privatetransportation.....
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Yes, I heard that it's cheaper to rent car in America than Europe.
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Is there a German law let 16 years old driver to drive with adult for practicing? What about parents that they can not drive due to their disablities? Does the German goverment permits 16 years old child to transport their parent(s) for special permit? Of course, some state governments in U.S. permits to let the 14 years old kid with special permit drive for the parent who can not drive. Some kids drive their parent who has color blind and can not drive at nights.
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Unfortunlately no, it's illegal for the parents to teach their children how to drive in Germany. It's strict forbidden. If the teenagers want to learn to drive then they have to wait until they are 18 years old then go to driving school as what I mentioned in my first thread and few posts after that to answer members's questions over Germany in one page thread.
Check my post about Germany law... and also world law, too.
http://www.alldeaf.com/showpost.php?...08&postcount=1
http://www.alldeaf.com/showpost.php?...33&postcount=9
http://www.alldeaf.com/showpost.php?...2&postcount=11
http://www.alldeaf.com/showpost.php?...3&postcount=67
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