It comes as a surprise to meet somebody - an adult - who hasn't had driver education or learned to drive a car. A driver's licence, if it is a car licence or truck licence, or maybe even a motorcycle licence, is the closest thing we have in this country to a universal identity card, earned through long hours attending driving schools shown now by driving log books. Even a mere learner's permit is proof you are on the way to motoring identity.
In this firmament of motoring ability, the non-driver is equivalent to a stateless person. The non-driver is probably going to be viewed with suspicion simply because the condition (that is, can't drive) in rare; that suspicion grows when, with no driving licence, the non-driver can produce no prepared formal picture identification. Lack of the driver's licence means you are scratching to find the wherewithal to meet the 100-point identity check increasingly needed by central authority and corporate officialdom. This is the disposition of non-citizens, of interlopers, people with guilty secrets.
Never having taken the motor test or attended driver education, and therefore not motoring, has the flavour of rejecting social norms, kind of like a vegan, or a nudist. Barely cranky, but with the whiff of sedition. The importance of motoring, in Australia as in America, is that much greater because of the metropolitan expansion of the major towns, not to mention the enormous open spaces between those cities. This, mixed with the relatively poor availability of public transport, means not having a driving permit decreases your autonomy and freedom of movement. The driving test is an initiation to, and the valid driver's licence the recognition of, adult citizenship. To reject this is definitely un-Australian, and doubtless un-American.
By comparison, rejection of motoring and rejecting the driver's licence in mainland Europe, with its excessive public transport and dense city life arrangements, could be positively stylish. In the cities, riding a motorcycle makes much more sense than driving a car, and a pedal cycle is the cheaper-quicker-environmentally thoughtful style of transport. Walking is best, and safest (especially where the streets are cobbled).
However , it's not ever too late. Whilst it's better to learn just about anything when you're young, driving is still not so complicated for the mature-age student. Find the best qualified range of driving schools to choose from, select a then suitably qualified (and insured) driving instructor, and when ready head on down to the local Road Traffic Authority office for the test. The better news here is that, provided you can identify English script alphabetical characters ten centimeters (that's four inches) high at 15 paces, you do not want a credible driving licence as proof of identity so as to secure your learner permit.
Then, they take your snapshot, laminate it in the ID card, and you are on the way to driving citizenship of the planet. Yes, actually the World: once you've got your licence, the International Driving Permit is yours just for the asking.
In this firmament of motoring ability, the non-driver is equivalent to a stateless person. The non-driver is probably going to be viewed with suspicion simply because the condition (that is, can't drive) in rare; that suspicion grows when, with no driving licence, the non-driver can produce no prepared formal picture identification. Lack of the driver's licence means you are scratching to find the wherewithal to meet the 100-point identity check increasingly needed by central authority and corporate officialdom. This is the disposition of non-citizens, of interlopers, people with guilty secrets.
Never having taken the motor test or attended driver education, and therefore not motoring, has the flavour of rejecting social norms, kind of like a vegan, or a nudist. Barely cranky, but with the whiff of sedition. The importance of motoring, in Australia as in America, is that much greater because of the metropolitan expansion of the major towns, not to mention the enormous open spaces between those cities. This, mixed with the relatively poor availability of public transport, means not having a driving permit decreases your autonomy and freedom of movement. The driving test is an initiation to, and the valid driver's licence the recognition of, adult citizenship. To reject this is definitely un-Australian, and doubtless un-American.
By comparison, rejection of motoring and rejecting the driver's licence in mainland Europe, with its excessive public transport and dense city life arrangements, could be positively stylish. In the cities, riding a motorcycle makes much more sense than driving a car, and a pedal cycle is the cheaper-quicker-environmentally thoughtful style of transport. Walking is best, and safest (especially where the streets are cobbled).
However , it's not ever too late. Whilst it's better to learn just about anything when you're young, driving is still not so complicated for the mature-age student. Find the best qualified range of driving schools to choose from, select a then suitably qualified (and insured) driving instructor, and when ready head on down to the local Road Traffic Authority office for the test. The better news here is that, provided you can identify English script alphabetical characters ten centimeters (that's four inches) high at 15 paces, you do not want a credible driving licence as proof of identity so as to secure your learner permit.
Then, they take your snapshot, laminate it in the ID card, and you are on the way to driving citizenship of the planet. Yes, actually the World: once you've got your licence, the International Driving Permit is yours just for the asking.
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