[Tokhtamish]

Flat out wrong. It's quite constitutional for a state to require a license to operate a motor vehicle.

Would you also agree it is "quite constitutional" for a state to require a license to operate the computer you are now using?.

You are ranting fringe nut nonsense. Some 50,000 people every year die in auto accidents. Easily twice that are injured or maimed. I haven't heard much about people being killed or injured in computer accidents. Have you ?

Someone who is driving well above the speed limit, or driving drunk, or disobeying stop signs and traffic lights is selfishly jeopardizing the lives of others and society has every right to deny people who refuse to take the lives and safety of others into account on the road access to the road.

[eno_]

OK, imagine license and tag requirements went away tommorow. You don't need to be a big-L Libtertarian to know that some other means of regulating driver competence would be developed. Would it be better than what we have now? Ask yourself: how just, effective, and cost-efficient is what we have now? Could anything be worse, even in the carnage you cite as justifying our current system? The current system is corrupt, pork-laden, and ineffective at keeping people safe on the roads. Groups like MADD have hijacked drunk driving as an issue.

But no need to imagine big steps. Just imagine if speeding fines were put into a tax refund pool and distributed to taxpayers each quarter, so that no PDs had an incentive to run revenue speed traps. Would enforcement of really hazardous driving improve, or get worse?

[southern rock]

society has every right

Actually, society doesn't have any rights. Rights are reserved for individuals.