These Are The Traffic Laws You Would Change If You Were President For A Day

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You cognize what they opportunity astir absolute power. We asked our readers earlier this week which laws they would alteration if they spent a time working retired of nan Oval Office. I can't norm connected constitutionality aliases feasibility, but nan comments conception was loaded pinch suggestions that ranged from petty to earnestly transformative. A fewer of you would astir apt emotion to group up a car crusher connected nan National Mall to publically punish reckless drivers. Let's beryllium clear that an inclusion connected this database isn't a governmental endorsement from Jalopnik aliases me. Without further ado, these are nan ideas that commenters would unit connected nan American people:

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Not only tin nan President still drive, but they tin thrust whenever and wherever they want.

If I was prez, I deliberation I would usage nan Senator Amidala method of travel. I'm not successful nan Presidential Limo and procession. That's conscionable nan decoy. I'll beryllium driving nan random Porsche Cayman GT4 RS, that near astir 30 minutes earlier, wearing my clone beard and sunglasses.

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As successful nan lawsuit successful immoderate European countries, nan magnitude you salary for immoderate postulation usurpation depends connected your tax-reported income. Billionaires would past person to salary millions for a speeding ticket.

I would besides greatly summation nan fines for causing accidents, particularly during unreserved hours. Nothing I dislike much than my 20 min commute taking 45 mins b/c immoderate dumb-dum didn't cheque his mirrors and deed someone.

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This is simply a 'yes, and' infinitesimal for me.

Enforce CARB rules nationwide. Rewrite CAFE standards to not stress building bigger vehicles. Reintroduce and grow EV taxation credits, but require nan vehicles to beryllium union-made. Introduce pedestrian information arsenic good arsenic visibility standards that would incentivize trucks to commencement shrinking down, rewrite roadworthy creation standards to stress much mixed usage and extremity nan creation of caller stroads. To further incentivize smaller vehicles, put a taxation connected larger vehicles which tin beryllium utilized to salary for nan accelerated improvement of high-speed rail.

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Install headlight LEDs brighter than shaper spec aliases into lens housings they were ne'er designed for? Your conveyance gets turned into a cube.

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If you hold until nan past 2nd to merge to effort and walk each nan group already waiting to merge, your car is impounded and crushed and you suffer your license.

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I don't deliberation I'd alteration immoderate laws (because fundamentally astir are beautiful reasonable). What I would alteration is enforcement – get nan tailgaters, left-lane bandits, nan trucks pinch unsecured loads, nan racers weaving successful and out, and nan morons rolling ember disconnected nan roads, aliases springiness them fines truthful precocious it's really painful.

And extremity lipid and state subsidies, truthful nan playing section is level for each manufacturers.

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Not a postulation rule per se, but I would forbid immoderate landscaping that is taller than 2 feet wrong 20 feet of an intersection aliases a driveway. Far excessively often, I thrust up to an intersection and person to inch my measurement past nan foliage to spot oncoming postulation (both ways).

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Written retests each licence renewal, thing crazy, but if I person to do yearly compliance training astatine activity for harassment and information compliance, we tin reappraisal nan basics of driving astatine slightest each 3-5 years. On-the-road driving tests each 10 years.

Vehicle Safety and diagnostics inspections of tires, brakes, suspension, and emissions are cost-free astatine immoderate work station, arsenic paid for by nan NHTSA and authorities DOTs and are required to hap astatine slightest each 3 years. So if you spell successful for an lipid change, nan halfway tin inquire if you want to update these successful nan system. No further inspection centers needed, but for illustration Medicare and others, if a shop is caught fraudulently doing this, it's defrauding nan fed and authorities governments, truthful it's nary joke to support unsafe cars connected nan road.

14-point summons if you are pulled complete for camping retired successful nan near lane, pinch cosmopolitan reciprocity among states.

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