re: Another reason Gen Z sucks: Now they are scared to drive

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No, you can't understand young people in cities have no reason or need to drive. Are you an old man that also can't read?

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Yep. A bunch of no life losers.

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Stupid In Louisiana in the early 80's you recieved your permit at 14 and DL at 15

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In South Louisiana in the 70s you drove once you could see over the steering wheel, and it was a manual transmission.

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Do you have teenagers in this generation? Out of 5 of my kids, two of them had to be coerced into getting a license. I also hear the same anecdotal evidence from colleagues and friends that their kids have low , or no, interest in driving

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I have a 16yr old with no interest in driving... we had to force my 18yr old sister to finally get her license and my daughter has a brother in law that was basically forced at 17.

The traffic is awful, drivers are shitty, can't blame them.

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The traffic is awful, drivers are shitty, can't blame them.

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Screens
This is the problem
In the early 80's when I began driving there was nothing to look at inside the vehicle. No phone screens, iPads etc. Today the head units in many modern cars are basically a tablet PC.
I shouldn't talk. I have an iPad pro mounted in the 4Runner and I'm constantly looking at music and navigation apps but after 45 years of driving around 40,000 miles per year I've yet to be in an at fault accident.
When I was 16 the only driving distractions we had to deal with was grabbing a beer from the ice chest on the back seat.

I've been driving since I was 14 and I've slowly grown more and more apprehensive about driving these days b/c of how fricking horrible it is out there since the brief few months of emptier roads during the pandemic apparently gave everyone the idea driving rules and laws are optional.

Even worse is plenty of people all over who will vehemently defend their shite driving and act like you're the a-hole for telling them to stop driving like an a-hole.

For example, I can't even count the number of times I've seen posters here bitch about people driving slow in "the fast lane" only to find out they're mad the person in front of them was "only" going 75-80 in a 65 mph zone as if that lane is their own personal autobahn and if you aren't going 90 you're the problem.