alt Hacker News> To drive a car requires being able to read
Emphatically, it does not. Passing your drivers test may require being able to read, but plenty of illiterate people around the world drive just fine.
There is a reason we made all the common road signs recognisable purely by shape/colour, after all.
Until they reverse on a highway and kill a family. Being able to drive isn't where parent poster put the bar