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>Yes. Make driver education mandatory in public school.

This is not a good time investment for children, given that not all of them will drive. Especially, considering that driverless cars are coming soon.

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It's a few hours' training to teach a basic skill most of them will use (along with all the other "not all of them will use it" things they do or should learn). Those who don't formally learn will still likely end up behind a wheel anyway, documented or not - and it's those non-documented ones who are precisely the ones we particularly DO want to ensure are trained one way or another.

In what universe is learning to drive a "few" hours? At minimum most courses I know of have 10-20 hours of lecture type instruction.

When it comes to an entire course, that's few. If you took the whole school day it would be 2-3 days. It's barely anything.

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