Science Driver's license for men only from 26 years up - Berlin-based "traffic scientist" proposes no longer giving driver's licences to men age 25 and below

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Driver's license for men only from 26 years up​

On contemporary lunacy.

This entire day, something has been bugging me.

I could recall that I heard something in the radio this morning that made me think, how can anyone be so stupid, I need to write about this, but I forgot it by the time I got out of the bath. I knew I wanted to write about a topic today, but I didn't recall what it was.

That is terrible. I don't know if it is a sign of age, or if you just get used to these nonsense floods. There is this effect that the brain memorizes new things very good and in detail, but the more something becomes routine, the less it remains in memory. Maybe I have built up too much of a routine in dealing with nonsense and, by noon, I no longer know what nonsense I heard on the radio that morning.

But a reader reminded me again.

A Berlin-based research scientist - ... you know, when the story already starts with "Berlin scientist" ... - advocates for only giving driver's licenses to men after they are 26 years old.

"When the number of accidents caused by speeding doesn't go down, we need to have a talk on whether men should only get a driver's license after concluding their 26th year of life", traffic scientist Prof. Andreas Knie PhD (63, TU Berlin) told the broadcaster RBB. "There are old archaic structures behind this, as well as a long outdated masculinity craze which is acting out."

I had three, four questions running through my head this morning while I was half asleep:
  • Doesn't the constitution say that nobody may be disadvantaged because of their sex? How can you even become a professor if you don't even know that much?
  • How do they want to know who is a "man" when everybody can declare themselves to be a woman or a cylinder head gasket?
  • How do they want to know who is "26" years old when every immigrant can throw away their documents and declare an arbitrary date of birth or take on multiple identities? Then you are simultaneously 13 years old for child benefits and immunity from criminal liability and 26 years old for your driver's license.
  • What do you even need a driver's license for? Didn't they recently say after a general police inspection that, in Berlin, roughly 10% of drivers do not possess a driver's license that passes an inspection?
When I was more awake, other questions appeared to me.

For instance, whether the professors in Berlin are so run-down right now that they just blather the most arbitrary crazy shit to still get talked about in the media.

Or why this dude is being passed for as a traffic scientist even though he is a political scientist and sociologist, thus on the far-left fringe in Berlin, and doesn't just pass his ideological shit as science, as the vast majority of professors do nowadays, but apparently even genuinely thinks it is science:

In numerous publications, Andreas Knie advocates for a departure from car-based traffic policy and a traffic paradigm shift towards more flexibility of public services. He suggests changing the political and legal frameworks as "real experiments".[12] His demand for limits [or borders? ambiguous wording here] for privately owned cars triggers numerous comments on editorials and media reports.[13][14] Unlike vehement car critics such as Hermann Knoflacher or Winfried Wolf, Knie does not reject the car in its entirety. Instead, since the 1990s, he is supporting new ways of usage, such as car sharing.[15] In addition, he demands additional mobility offers, such as Call a bike.[16] According to Knie, digital platforms strengthen the tendency to combine different mobility offers.[17] A further topic is the future of traffic policy under the conditions of demographic change.[18]

And that is the crucial point: They are trying to sell us a political agenda as science. We already know that from climate.

Or, in other words: The German "science", at least at the universities, isn't worth a damn. Especially not in Berlin.

People, what do you think, how much carbon emissions can be saved if you closed down the Berlin universities?
 
I don't actually think it's a terrible idea.

It will never work, discrimination, identity and undocumented illegal immigrant worship coming first of course.

There was a time not very long ago where women had female-only insurance brokers operating at bargain basement rates, and men under 30 faced cripplingly high insurance costs compared to women the same age.

The reason? We are biologically different, and men generally drive more recklessly and are less skillful drivers than women. I say "generally", the boy racer drive tails off in time for some but not all. Something generally not found in women of any age.

The media may have predicted a Harris win, but the bookies from the outset predicted a Trump victory. Likewise, whatever we might want to say about equity, the vast majority of people involved in speeding, accidents, fatalities etc are overwhelmingly young males.

If this was Afghanistan, you could argue something about proportion of women on the road. But most of the world isn't Afghanistan.

I'll take your downvotes, but it is what it is.
 
I don't actually think it's a terrible idea.

It will never work, discrimination, identity and undocumented illegal immigrant worship coming first of course.

There was a time not very long ago where women had female-only insurance brokers operating at bargain basement rates, and men under 30 faced cripplingly high insurance costs compared to women the same age.

The reason? We are biologically different, and men generally drive more recklessly and are less skillful drivers than women. I say "generally", the boy racer drive tails off in time for some but not all. Something generally not found in women of any age.

The media may have predicted a Harris win, but the bookies from the outset predicted a Trump victory. Likewise, whatever we might want to say about equity, the vast majority of people involved in speeding, accidents, fatalities etc are overwhelmingly young males.

If this was Afghanistan, you could argue something about proportion of women on the road. But most of the world isn't Afghanistan.

I'll take your downvotes, but it is what it is.
I am in favor of discrimination when it comes to private entities, such as (many) insurance brokers
I am against the state, and I am against the state doing discrimination
Therefore, I disagree with your first sentence, but the rest is OK in my book
 
Having driven in Germany, I have no idea why this is even a problem. Safest country I've ever driven in.

Maybe start actually doing something about the various brownoids who come to Germany and drive illegally instead of lumping all young men together. We all know who actually has the accidents and it's usually not law abiding whitebread German kids

We are biologically different, and men generally drive more recklessly and are less skillful drivers than women.

When my wife and I got our drivers licenses it took her all of 3 drives to put the car into the ditch backwards at 70 km/h. I have never driven with a woman I'd consider "skillful", passable is the best I've had so far.
 
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The fact he specifies "for men" has me assuming he doesn't think it should apply to women? So he expects women in their early twenties to ferry their boyfriends around? That's like something you would come up with if you were trying to design a policy to be as unappealing to the widest number of people possible. Here in the UK you're basically undateable if you're a bloke and over the age of about 20 and don't have a driving license, and I don't imagine Germany is too dissimilar in that respect.

These are the kind of "clever" policies you come up with when you're an academic who just looks at raw data and statistics and spends zero time around other people.
 
When my wife and I got our drivers licenses it took her all of 3 drives to put the car into the ditch backwards at 70 km/h. I have never driven with a woman I'd consider "skillful", passable is the best I've had so far.
Most traffic accidents are human error so women, being timid drivers, don't get into as many high-speed smashups as men. When they get into an accident involving road conditions or mechanical failure they do much worse than men, and if they ever lose that fear of driving holy shit, watch out.
 
I humbly submit that if the Germans are to discriminate handing out driving licences based on demographics, they would be best served starting by restricting the demographic that likes to drive lorries into crowds. Tis the season after all.
 
Plenty of jobs require you to have a license, they'd be basically locking a lot of people out of a good chunk of the job market by doing this. Your plumber/electrician/mechanic sure as shit ain't gonna ride the bus or bike and it's usually the (young) men who take those jobs.
 
Leftists are so dedicated to anti-racism that they will crash the economy keeping young White men out of the workforce rather than admit that it's brown men committing most of the traffic violations.
 
Germany is getting crammed full of shitskins that break the law but their real problem is giving drivers licenses to moids who are 25 years old or younger. Good job, Germany.
 
Maybe start actually doing something about the various brownoids who come to Germany and drive illegally instead of lumping all young men together.
That’ll never happen. You see them blame young German men for rapes but never mention that it’s the new Europeans that are at fault.
 
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