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comment by mknod

People with glasses should try seeing better.

People who have difficulties hearing should just listen harder.

You may not have explicitly said these things but to anyone with mental illness this is what they just read.





SadPandaIsSad  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can take my words and twist them to the extreme all you want. Those are not the same thing. They are not even similar.

I have glasses and I don't have the best hearing. People with glasses or those hard of hearing still need to learn to deal with those issues. You can't get into a car crash and blame your sight. Guess what happens when you do (or at least what should happen)? You don't get to drive anymore. If you can't see, you shouldn't be behind a wheel of a vehicle capable of easily killing people. Same with not being able to concentrate. If you can't control your car and make informed decisions while driving you don't get to drive. If you nod off at the wheel on a regular basis, regardless of whether it's a medical issue you shouldn't drive. Public safety. Nuff said.

mknod  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I actually agree! People with ADHD should have special training for driving a vehicle. As I noted above a person who has ADHD has a 45% higher risk of getting into a car accident than someone without.

It can be very hard to distinguish such things using humans at the DMV though, which is another reason I'd like to see automatic vehicles in widespread use. We should remove the trust from the roads, rage aholics, drunks, and emotionally unstable people are currently out on our freeways. With the automatic vehicles we could be safer with a very small economic cost.

SadPandaIsSad  ·  3415 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm right with you there. It works be so nice to take that daily stress out of ask of our lives. Honestly sometimes i'm in a great mood, leave for work, by the time I'm there my day is shot and I now spend a couple hours getting myself in a better mood. All because some people have no common sense or decency. Automation would ease me blood pressure for sure!

Also. Glad that though we disagree on some fundamentals we can agree on the greater picture. I love you Hubsky!