mr peters explores the 'need' for a drives license; 

Why is it necessary to get – or renew a driver’s license given it has little if anything to do with whether a person is competent to drive?

They could save time – ours – and just issue one to every person who turns 16 and leave it at that, because we all know that a driver’s license is in fact an ID card. But it’d be harder to induce people to come in for a government ID card than for a driver’s license, which is why these ID cards are styled “driver’s licenses.”

You do not need one of these things in the same way that a private pilot does – in the sense that a person who has earned a private pilot’s license has demonstrated that he is competent to fly an airplane. He has shown that he can taxi, take-off and land the airplane.

What has the successful driver’s license applicant demonstrated? That he can fill out forms and answer a certain number of questions – not all  of them! – correctly on a test of signage and road rules. He is not required to demonstrate that he can recover from a skid or even parallel park or (in the case of people with trucks who tow trailers) that he can back-up a trailer without the “assistance” of “technology.”.........more.......