Or you can view it as living in a system which may, and often does, compel all of us to eventually visit potentially deadly violence on someone else.”

I was just Watching Dead to me, which is a show about good people doing horrible things, and two of the three seasons settle on accidentally killing someone with a car.

That is to say the question "how do we have a character remain sympathetic after they've killed someone?" is "easy! we'll put them behind the wheel!"

Just as the question,"How do we make this bank-robbing villain sympathetic?" is answered by "make them have to pay for their child's treatable illness."

We could build a better society just around making writers' jobs more difficult.

It is not just a boomer thing.

A sane person would think this could maybe help encourage people to push for bus routes

Perfect age for running a fucking country. Hire them to the US gov immediately. They'll fit right in.

Japanese dashcam videos are a preview of what horrors to come.

If we had robust public transport for everyone, this wouldnt be as big an issue.

Dont forget that it is not generation vs generation, its the 1% vs the working class.

Interesting, I am one of those boomers. my insurance runs out Monday and I am selling my vehicle. This is by choice as I am going blind. I absolutely refuse to be one of those old farts that kills people by driving because they want a pack of smokes or some candy.

My scooter arrives in 2 weeks. I already have my pirate flag, and lots of cool stickers ready for it.

Who could have possibly seen this coming??

The world they created for themselves. Stupid shits.

I know exactly one boomer that supports public transit over cars.

"may"?

This fucking terrifies me. My mom is 79, living in the most rural place ever, wtf is she gonna do when she has to give up her license? P.s. if anyone else has been in this situation what did you do?

At around 84, my dad caused a small fender-bender, that's when my sister told him he had to stop driving. He couldn't turn his head to see behind him. That sucked for my sister, because it fell on her to get him out of the house for grocery shopping, etc. She was the only one who still lived in the same state. He ended up in an assisted living home for the last two years of his life with dementia.

Public transportation is great, but they don't go into the suburbs. I suppose Uber and Lyft are the solution there, but my dad had no idea how to do that, he didn't own a cell phone.

Capitalism has been fucking us hard for over 100 years, the offenses keep piling up, and only now are people starting to realize how bad it's gotten.

My dad

My 95 year old mother in law picked me up at the airport and still goes golfing each week pushing her clubs around the golf course. I trust her than most kids on the road. However, She is much different than my 80 year old mother where the doctor took away her handicap pass because she kept hitting cars in the parking lot.

In what fucking world is it ok to avoid jail because you're fucking old. If she's too old to go to jail then we need an option to euthanize elderly criminals.

They'll either move into homes or be cared for by family, same as it has been for decades.

Sure they'll kill some people before their kids take their keys...

To an extent that's already the case...

Same ever since automobiles appeared. They'll just be more old fuckers on the road nowadays. Insurers are salivating over all of the future claims they can deny.

The Price Of Freedom is about to go up steeply

This describes my hometown to a tee. Thirty years ago.

🎶 Take two down, they blindly crash around, sixty-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-eight Boomers to go! 🎵

Good, insurance premiums are about to go up, like all of them, health, auto, death by boomer insurance...

Yes and most of them live near me.

And they’re ruining cars. High, upright seating position because they can’t get out of the car, big chonky tires on an SUV chassis because they hit potholes and curbs, measly little engines because they’re not going to use them anyway, driver assistance because their meds make them impaired.

Cars will be cool again when old people don’t have to drive.