To support JonR's contention, I read a direct quote from the chairman of the California Department of Motor Vehicles (the agency responsible for the licensing of motorists), to the effect that we could make our roads safer by instituting stricter standards for obtaining and retaining a driver's license, but "at what cost to the southern California lifestyle?" What about the lifestyles of those killed or disabled by distracted, aggressive, inebriated, or incompetent drivers? In California (and probably in the rest of the U.S. and most other developed nations), driving is supposed to be a revocable privilege, not an unalienable right.