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Comment by AustinDev

18 days ago

A serious emergency isn't going to be helped by someone with very little driving experience. I don't follow your reasoning. If it was a serious emergency who would care if you had a license?

People think about things differently. It may be that for OP, "but I don't have a license" would cause a second thought and waste time in an emergency. They may be self aware enough to head that off.

A police officer would. The penalty for an accident might be negligent driving.

The penalty for an accident without a license is, at minimum, driving without a license. You're also not likely to be covered by insurance without one either, even if you're not at fault.

  • Sure, if you assume the one time they end up driving leads to an accident, which is a crazy assumption.

    There are bad drivers out there right now, driving every day that rarely or never get into an accident.

    • Take a person who has marginally acceptable eyesight, who never drives, put them in an emergency situation where they need to drive and you've got a recipe for much higher odds of having an accident.

      Given that getting a license is an option, and it conveniently doubles as a photo ID, and there's really not a reason to not get one.