Comment Re:and would your answer to drunk dirvers be (Score 1) 292
Actually, no. The reason being that anybody drives bad when they are drunk and there are no drunk-licenses that would allow you to drive drunk. So, everybody is equal.
However, repairing a car is not rocket science. A lot of people can do it and in the USSR it was expected the owner of the car to do some work himself (unlike now when there are drivers who do not know how to change a wheel or even check the oil level). While at this moment I do not know how to repair the brakes of my car, I believe I could learn if I needed to, just like I learned how to take a carburetor apart, clean it, lube it (where needed) and put it back together.
Requiring a license to work on brakes (any other parts of the car you want to add to the list?) means that all mechanics would have to get the license, paying the government money (resulting in higher prices), but the license would not automatically mean that the mechanic is any good (he could have bribed somebody). It would also prevent people who know from fixing their own brakes without breaking the law and yet, people who wanted to do it would be able to do it (it's not like it would be possible to easily find out if an unlicensed person worked on the brakes).
So, requiring a brake license would be useless and would serve only to increase the prices. Also, reinforcing the back of my car would help in the cases where the car with bad brakes was not repaired by the owner (or anyone at all, the brakes failed and the owner didn't care).