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I'm there right now. These people cannot fucking drive.
How to fix America in roughly one, simple, extremely unpopular step:
Literally everyone with a drivers liscense has to fully retest, written and driving, every single year.
Make the tests cost nothing, and make it so (if it isn't the case already), every state has a non drivers liscense ID, and no, no you cannot farm out the actual tests to some kind of contracted private entity.
Drivers liscenses always expire one year after issue date. Non drivers liscense IDs? 10 years.
Within 5 years I'm guessing the number of people regulalry driving cars drops by about 50%.
Infrastructure degrades less quickly.
Personal finances improve as less people are routinely cleaned out by hilariously overpriced predatory car loans.
Car insurance rates and traffic accidents drop dramatically.
People begin to demand functional public transit, walk/bike compatible urban layouts and renovations.
Public transit and walkable places force people to have a higher baseline for general social decency, result in people realizing that physically experiencing other people is fundamentally not optional in this thing we call 'society'.
Hell, even oil becomes relatively less expensive, thus somewhat moderating general inflation.
... All of this, something like this would happen, if we were just actually serious about getting and keeping incompetent drivers off the road.