Los Angeles officials say that an elderly woman accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes outside a car dealership on Wednesday morning, driving into the building and leaving one dead.

It’s my god given right to drive a 5,000lb vehicle. Any attempt to make sure I’m fit to drive this safely is an assault on my god given rights.

  • Archmage Azor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    It’s not strictly american. I’m not american, and here we have plenty of elderly drivers, it makes me worried when I see them. Luckily we have good public transport too.

    • thoughtorgan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      11 months ago

      You missed the point. It’s an American problem because our public transport got gutted or never even existed in the first place.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        This is a problem in many countries besides America. The same shit happens in Canada. I remember elderly people crashing cars into buildings on the news occasionally growing up in Fake London, Ontario