The more I drive in this state the more I’ve determined that it is a “right to drive” state. Anyone, no matter how stupid they are, is allowed at age 16 to get behind the wheel of a vehicle that easily end the lives of multiple people in one fell swoop. Now these same people for some odd reason don’t have enough sense to gamble, drink, and vote (which it seems only senseless people do as of late). Why do I feel someone not even responsible enough to vote is responsible enough to drive amongst the other people who in some cases are “responsible”, in age, but still drive as if they have no hands and half a brain. Perhaps this all stems from the fact that I came from the 3rd hardest state to get your license from. I had to go through countless hours of instruction and training just to get to the next step of instruction and training. Do I make bad decisions? yes, do I feel like a moron afterwards? yes. Everyone makes bad decisions but in most places on earth the bad choices and “accidents” are a minority not a majority.
On a side note though the city planners are partly to blame, I mean who makes a clover with a 40ft merge lane that your max speed is roughly a quarter of the highway speed.