English-Only Drivers Tests Bad For Business

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1. Tony Gottlieb writes
   March 12th, 2010 9:11 am

   Why do we want drivers on the road who cannot read English? Isn’t the body count of the daily accident carnage enough?

2. Randal writes
   March 12th, 2010 9:13 am

   Ze Germans mostly speak and read English if they are working for Volks in the states. Same for the Japanese. If they don’t, then they have packs of poorly paid interns that would love to play “driver” for Mister Bigshot.

   Now the Mexicans? I don’t recall them owning or operating any automotive plants. I do seem to remember them being the single largest unlicensed and uninsured demographic in the US. Why should we coddle the lawbreakers?

3. kosh iii writes
   March 12th, 2010 9:17 am

   Can someone in Germany take a drivers test in English? or Hindi?

4. TNVolunteer73 writes
   March 12th, 2010 9:24 am

   Kosh III If they can’t they can learn the language and then take the test.

   When there is a need to learn the language, people learn it.

   Move to China for a year. I bet in 3 days you learn enough to name some of the food you like, Lean how to count the money, and learn how to hail a cab or the names of the stops on the train system.

   Then after about 4 days you have leaned the name of the streets, and buildings you Frequent.

   within a month you will learn enough to get a license to drive, because you need trasportaton.

5. kosh iii writes
   March 12th, 2010 9:47 am

   Exactly.
   And the Germans that come here are probably going to be high-level administrators or engineers who are already competent in English.

6. TNVolunteer73 writes
   March 12th, 2010 9:52 am

   Kosh III

   My Daughter was an exchange student to Germany, When she returned we had German Highschool students that lived with us as exchange students. Guess what Those German Highschool students spoke better english than Our current President or his predisessor..

7. Fabian writes
   March 12th, 2010 10:05 am

   Taking the test is different than driving, it is different to see and understand the word STOP, than 50 pages of instructions. Also not everybody in the USA speaks and reads English, for example people from Puerto Rico, (which is part of USA) speak Spanish at home.
   Lastly, the issue is not “the Mexicans” but the idea that we welcome businesses and researchers here.
   Do you care more for your hate of “the Mexicans” or the future of the State?

8. Jay D writes
   March 12th, 2010 10:07 am

   Vol trashing others for their poor English skills - Classic. Dude, you butcher the English language on a post-by-post basis.

9. TNVolunteer73 writes
   March 12th, 2010 10:11 am

   Jay, I never claimed to be a harvard graduate, nor great speaker and speech writer.

   As I have stated before I have dyslexia, no excuse, just a fact. I dont spend several minutes proof reading each post before submitting it.

10. vbscript2 writes
    March 12th, 2010 10:50 am

    Fabian,

    This does not regard drivers tests for all of the U.S.A., only for TN. Pretty much all TN roadsigns are in English. While you may understand “stop” without knowing English well, you’re not going to understand the majority of road signs without at least a good enough comprehension of it to read the few sentences on the drivers exam.

    As TNVol already said, the vast majority of businesspeople and researchers that visit the U.S. speak English almost as well as a native of an English-speaking area. While you will find plenty of foreign nationals in TN’s research institutions, almost all of them speak English fluently (and, indeed, publish their research in English.)

    Jay,

    Quit being a jerk. Obviously, there’s a pretty big difference between making some grammatical or spelling mistakes and not having sufficient comprehension of English to understand a roadsign.

11. Fabian writes
    March 12th, 2010 11:20 am

    Sorry, but you are wrong. There are researchers and or business people that can write a quantum mechanics paper but couldn’t pass the driving test if it was taken in English. Furthermore, proficient English speakers can’t understand the test sometimes.. check with the DNV an you will see the rate of failure in test taking.

    The test is in TN but we have people from Puerto Rico that move here all the time, and are not proficient in English from the start.

    And in any case, what is the point? As you can see we are having this conversation in English. We didn’t need a law to make this happen….

12. Tom Paine writes
    March 12th, 2010 11:30 am

    Yes, I was positive this little post would bring out the jingoists and I’m happy to see they haven’t disappointed us.

    Look, lets get real. If you think providing the driver’s test in English only is going to somehow limit illegal immigration, dream on. Illegal immigrants are perfectly happy to (like many Tennesseans, by the way) drive without a license.

    The issue is this: according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Alabama and Georgia provide driver’s tests in many more languages than Tennessee. Tennessee competes with Alabama and Georgia for foreign investment which creates jobs. Why do you want to hand Alabama and Georgia a competitive advantage over Tennessee?

    Make fun of the “furriners” all you want, but the fact is their investment provides jobs for hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans.

    If Eric Watson and his ilk were truly worried about highway safety, you think they might want to ban texting while driving or cell phone use while driving, huh?

    Or maybe, if they can’t communicate with foreign drivers, they might want to toss a Berlitz phrase book in the car….?

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14. Christian Höferle writes
    March 12th, 2010 12:05 pm

    http://www.facebook.com/notes/christian-hoeferle/why-i-oppose-tn-hb-0262-aka-english-only-drivers-test/364031943529

    I’m sorry, Eric Watson, but you have it all wrong.

15. TNVolunteer73 writes
    March 12th, 2010 12:12 pm

    Tom Paine it is not to limit Illegal immigrants, it is to limit the death caused by Illegal immigrants.

    REmember 12 people on average/day are killed by illegals driving drunk.

    With that said. This is a SAFTEY ISSUE not an immigration issue.

    Once again the Ignorant left cannot see the Forest for the trees.

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18. Tom Paine writes
    March 12th, 2010 1:25 pm

    Gee, TNVolunteer73 must’ve missed that press release yesterday that showed U.S. traffic fatalities are at a 56 year low.

    I appreciate that saying its a safety issue soothes your conscience, but my basic premise remains:

    1) Prove your point with data. If drunken illegals are killing people, how many people are killed by drunken natives? How is requiring an illegal to take a driver’s test in English going to stop him/her from driving drunk? Is a death caused by a drunken illegal more heinous than a death caused by a drunken English speaker?

    2) You haven’t proven your basic premise that inability to read road signs is a major contributor to traffic fatalities in Tennessee.

    3) Show me a state where English-only driver’s tests have had a substantive, positive impact on traffic fatalities.

    If I’m so ignorant, enlighten me.

19. TNVolunteer73 writes
    March 12th, 2010 1:36 pm

    Tom Paine…

    No I did read it, it said that the Traffic Deaths were at an all time low because of UNEMPLOYMENT.

    the Illegals in the US are STILL EMPLOYED. and still driving. and still driving Drunk…

    http://www.kmph.com/Global/story.asp?S=12128634

    “It’s also economic. People aren’t driving, they can’t afford the gas,” Manzie said.

20. TNVolunteer73 writes
    March 12th, 2010 1:43 pm

    But you forgot the factor of which I spoke. DRUNK DRIVING.

    Drunk driving fatalities accounted for 32% of all traffic deaths last year, that is, on average someone is killed in an alcohol-impaired driving crash every 45 minutes in the U.S. (Source: NHTSA/FARS, 2009)

    12 Americans are killed every day by illegal aliens driving while intoxicated.

21. Fabian writes
    March 12th, 2010 1:50 pm

    Undocumented immigrants CAN”T (let me repeat that) CAN’T GET A LICENSE IN TN!!!!

    This is about people that are here WITH PAPERS!!!!

22. kosh iii writes
    March 12th, 2010 1:57 pm

    How did this even become about undocumented aliens?
    Fabian is right. It’s about those here legally.
    ——
    Can’t a person take an interpreter with them?
    After all, e.g. when Somali refugees came here, did DMV provide tests in their language or did they test with an interpreter? Or learn English first?

23. Tom Paine writes
    March 12th, 2010 2:00 pm

    No, I didn’t.

    My question is: if someone is pre-disposed to drive drunk, how is taking a driver’s test in English going to reduce the likelihood of that happening….?

    Both English speakers and non-English speakers know driving drunk is against the law. How is changing the driver’s test going to impact that….?

24. TNVolunteer73 writes
    March 12th, 2010 2:08 pm

    Tom Paine.. if they have no drivers license they are less likely to drive drunk. You see to get a loan for a car you have to have a driver’s license as proof of ID.

    If you read 12 people are killed every day by illegals driving drunk.

    There is 1 death from drunk driving ever 45 minutes.

    That is a total of 19 deaths every day.

    So 63% of all DRUNK DRIVING deaths are due to ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS driving drunk.

    So if you had a way to cut drunk driving deaths by 63% do you think it should be employed.

25. TNVolunteer73 writes
    March 12th, 2010 2:18 pm

    Fabian..

    They cannot get a job in Tennessee either.

    THEY STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S IDENTITY, THAT IS WHY THEY ARE NOT UNDOCUMENTED… THEY ARE ILLEGAL.

26. Fabian writes
    March 12th, 2010 2:19 pm

    I think global warming and starvation in Africa are also due to illegal immigration…

27. TNVolunteer73 writes
    March 12th, 2010 2:22 pm

    Fabian Acctually that is incorrect Global Warming is a hoax,

    Illegal immigration is not.

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    March 12th, 2010 5:21 pm

    The profiteers keep telling us how good highway Babel is for us. What they mean is, how good it is for them. There is no trickle-down there.

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