Limit speed of vehicles driven by students, parents
Once again I read that a death has been caused by speeding teenage drivers.
I used to drive a school bus in South Carolina when all bus drivers were selected from high schools. The answer then for keeping drivers at legal speeds was that each bus had a governor installed on it that did not allow the driver to exceed a certain speed.
Why can't North Carolina require that all cars driven by teens have governors on them that are set at 55 or 60 mph? If the car the teen drives is shared by the family it would still need a governor.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. If parents are inconvenienced, then that's the price and responsibility we pay as parents.
Better to save a life than worry about whether teens are unhappy.
Many people would try to circumvent this law or in some way disable the governor. That is why fines should be very steep and drivers' licenses should be revoked for any teen who is found without the governor or who is found to have altered it.
Phyllis Lambeth
Greensboro
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"Why can't North Carolina require that all cars driven by teens have governors on them that are set at 55 or 60 mph?"
Thanks for the laugh. That's the funniest thing I've read today!
Posted on September 5, 2006 5:59 PM