Used to work for CA DMV [sorry don't hold it against me] and one of the
quoted, very good, reasons for adding suspension of the driving privilege,
as it's called, was that suspended drivers drove very carefully.

True story. Think about it. In Ca you virtually cannot get around without a
car, so since you must drive....

Anyway it works, low accident rate on driver w/o licenses.

Mike

On 7/28/06 8:30 PM, "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> This all reminds me of an incident in the Washington State Legislature some
> years back.  The Chief of the State Patrol was testifying at a hearing,
> trying to convince the Legislature that he had to have a "Random Stop and
> Check" law.  One of the reasons he gave (absolute truth) is that it was the
> only way they could catch a lot of the unlicensed drivers.  He stated that
> because they didn't have a license they drove carefully so they wouldn't get
> pulled over and get caught.  One of the Legislators asked him to repeat what
> he had said and he did.  At that point the Legislator, tongue in cheek,
> suggested that maybe they should stop issuing drivers licenses since
> unlicensed drivers were such good drivers.
>
>
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>>
>>
>> If there  were no insurance for cars, there would be virtually no
>> wrecks or deaths.  People would drive like their cars were eggshells.
>> think about  it.
>>
>>
>> kind of like the argument that they should replace all airbags with a
>> large
>> harpoon, pointed straight at your chest (which is more or less how I feel
>> when
>> I  drive my non-seatbelted, non-collapsible-columned '57 Karmann Ghia.)
>>
>> rob infante
>> 87 syncro westy with svx almost done
>>
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