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Re:FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets by ghaff on Saturday February 03, 2018 @03:22AM (#16296769)
I didn't downvote but I assume it's because you made IMO a pretty ridiculous, or at least completely unactionable statement. Life, including modern life, is all about balancing costs and benefits. One of the benefits (for most people) of modern life is that you can hop in a car and drive places. A strict training and licensing regime along with other rules and regulations similar to those that apply to pilots, especially commercial and military ones, is incompatible with that benefit. There are various laws and rules but they're deliberately set at a "most adults can drive" level.

You may not like that tradeoff but most people disagree.

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Re:FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets by TeMPOraL on Saturday February 03, 2018 @04:37AM (#16296924)
> A strict training and licensing regime along with other rules and regulations similar to those that apply to pilots, especially commercial and military ones, is incompatible with that benefit.

The full set of regulations maybe, but I believe you could retain the "most adults can drive" level while making everyone go through much stricter training and licensing regime. Right now in Europe and US, the required training and examinations are ridiculously weak (amounts to basically explaining the UI of the car and going over the basic maneuvers until the point you no longer spectacularly fail at them). It only shows that as a society, we never grew the required respect for the driving. I think it's because back when the expectations set, there were much less cars on the road.

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Re:FAA Issues Emergency Order of Revocation Against TapJets by chx on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:21AM (#16314755)
> One of the benefits (for most people) of modern life is that you can hop in a car and drive places.

The price we pay for that is grimly high.

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