Originally Posted by
jefnvk
Personally, I think it is the joke of a licensing scheme that grants anyone with a pulse a license and refuses to remove it until they have proven a pile of irrefutable incompetencies, but that is just my opinion.
Driving is treated as a God given right here, where folks don't even lose it after multiple DUIs or fatal accidents in which they were recklessly at fault, whereas there it is treated as something they will have no problem taking away in a heartbeat and letting you ride a bus.
I think you are right.
I worked with company that had an office in China... some of their engineers came here to get training/exchange ideas with the group in the US. One thing a couple of engineers did was run right out and got a drivers license.
"Much easier and cheaper in the US." They wanted the licenses so they could rent cars and practice driving here, before tackling the much harder test in China.
It is reported that the driving test is also much harder and more expensive in Germany than here. Again, the US just "gives the licenses away."