[ampham]

Totally onboard with improving driver education, however, American public transportation infrastructure needs to be improved first.

This is because the United States is very car-centric and not being able to drive can limit your opportunities greatly. I’m all for setting the bar higher to get a drivers license but there needs to be alternatives put in place first.

For example, a person who grows up in a poor neighborhood has less access to opportunities and if they can’t drive, their opportunities are vastly limited even more because of how spread out things are especially in a lot of poor neighborhoods. They would also have trouble doing things like getting groceries, picking up kids from school, etc.

[mozman]

Public transportation infrastructure will take decades to plan, get approved, and build.

Driver education can be reviewed and improved within years if not less.

We don't need perfection we need to do something now.