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From: nadya@dartvax.UUCP (Nadya M. Labib)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Driving as a right or privilege / "for your own good"
Message-ID: <3717@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 16:24:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 16:24:01 1985
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References: <193@l5.uucp> <805@x.UUCP> <150@nitrex.UUCP>
Reply-To: nadya@dartvax.UUCP (Nadya M. Labib)
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Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Summary: 

In article <150@nitrex.UUCP> rob@nitrex.UUCP (rob robertson) writes:
>In article <805@x.UUCP> jb@x.UUCP (Jim Burnett) writes:
>>Driving as a right not a privilege?  That is one of the most absurd 
>>statements I have heard in a long time.  You think just because you
>>are of legal age and can somehow procure an automobile, you should
>>be allowed to travel on PUBLIC highways.  Wrong...wrong...wrong.
>
>This isn't so much of a flame as a point to ponder about the American reliance 
>on cars, but unless one lives in a big city with a rapid transportation
>system, if you don't have a car you don't have a livelyhood.  I mean
>who in America lives close enough to walk to work, to the supermarket and
>to a department store?  This is something our society really has to address.

Here, here.  Although there is an awful lot of responsibility that goes
along with it.  Driving is a right.  
.