Driving under the influence is like driving without a license: you're not in control of your vehicle. Requiring a license implies the operator has control of the vehicle and can drive it safely. If we make DUI legal, then there is no reason to require anyone to be licensed.
If the state suspends or revokes your license, what do they do to you to ensure you aren't capable of driving a vehicle? The state can't stop you from driving without locking you up. The only thing that stops people is their honesty, and other laws.
When you realize how easy it is to not get pulled over, you realize a lot of laws involving vehicles are pointless. A British gent drove for 60 some years without a license or police interaction involving a motor vehicle in that time before getting caught.
no reason to require anyone to be licensed
Licensure, as it currently stands, is so you have to ask the state for permission to move about freely on the roads you have paid for. It too should end, the penalties for negligently harming others should be astronomical, and the burden for certifying that young people are ready to drive should remain with their parents rather than offloading it to the state.
I'm fine with that. What about trucks, planes and buses?
I could be 1.0 BAC and be in full control of my vehicle
I think we should make it a states' rights issue. Then we should deport all our drunk drivers to your state. Kind of like what England did with Australia
not a problem
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