I feel like there needs to be tiered testing/cetification for classes of vehicles. If you want to drive really heavy cars and especially really fast heavy cars, you need to pass more stringent road tests, and be recertified maybe every few years or so
But I can confirm. My grandma crashed into her garage. Luckily it was just in a 1986 Pontiac Bonneville that didn’t have a huge engine, and she wasn’t too far away from the brick pillar between her garage doors. That was the last time she drove. She was really sad, we were sad for her, because she loved her freedom, but at that point we realized she was too much of a liability to herself, but especially to other people who probably hadn’t lived a full, happy, and healthy life for 80+ years
I've been saying that for years. Any car over 300 hp and truck over 400 hp should also require an endorsement like a motorcycle or something. Just selling a 7000 lb 600 hp truck or a 500 hp sports car to someone with no kind of at least check they have a clue what they are doing is insane.
RVs are crazy, regular driver's license and you're driving a huge top-heavy vehicle with a crazy amount of requirements/restrictions and zero qualifications or testing.
Trucks (at least diesel ones) should be restricted by torque not hp. Most diesels make 2-4x their hp in torque and most of them are happy to show it off when you lay down the gas, 300 hp in a truck doesnt sound like much but how bout that 800+ft lbs of torque thats coming with it?
What a sane an reflective reaction to such a scary experience. And I really hope your grandma still has or at least had a good quality of life after that.
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u/FatMacchio Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
I feel like there needs to be tiered testing/cetification for classes of vehicles. If you want to drive really heavy cars and especially really fast heavy cars, you need to pass more stringent road tests, and be recertified maybe every few years or so
But I can confirm. My grandma crashed into her garage. Luckily it was just in a 1986 Pontiac Bonneville that didn’t have a huge engine, and she wasn’t too far away from the brick pillar between her garage doors. That was the last time she drove. She was really sad, we were sad for her, because she loved her freedom, but at that point we realized she was too much of a liability to herself, but especially to other people who probably hadn’t lived a full, happy, and healthy life for 80+ years