Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!hcr!john
From: john@hcr.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Radar Detectors (was Highway Driving Rules)
Summary: High IQ != good driver
Message-ID: <651@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 17:50:06 GMT
References: <852@mv03.ecf.toronto.edu> <9556@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <13665@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1989May9.152855.27968@utzoo.uucp> <295@moegate.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@hcrvax.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
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In article <295@moegate.UUCP> soley@moegate.UUCP (Norman S. Soley) writes:
|In article <1989May9.152855.27968@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|>In article <13665@watdragon.waterloo.edu> djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon) writes:
|>>I am seriously pissed off at brainless, macho speeders.  They should
|>>require IQ tests before giving driving licenses, not just driving tests.
|>
|>Sounds like a good idea to me:  let only the truly competent drivers onto
|>the road... and then let them drive at any speed they like!
|
|Here! Here! 

Since when did doing well on IQ tests indicate how good a driver you
might be?  Some of the very intelligent people I know are frightening
drivers ("absent-minded professor" syndrome perhaps).

I'm all for making it tougher to get a licence, but let's do it based
on driving skill, not something only loosely related.
-- 
John R. MacMillan		Sometimes you have to go for the two
HCR Corporation			in the bush.
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