In article >,
Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote:
>On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:25:04 -0600,
>(Matthew Russotto) wrote:
>
>>>There's a fine line between intent and negligence.
>>
>>That's a pretty bright line.
>>
>>>If you SHOULD HAVE
>>>been able to avoid a collision, but you were too incompetent to do so,
>>>that's not much different than having actual intent.
>>
>>Mere incompetence isn't necessarily negligence
>
>I'll agree with that in general. However, given the risks to public
>safety that are involved, isn't it one's duty to become competent
>before getting behind the wheel?

The only legal duty is to pass the driver's test. That establishes a
(very) minimal level of comptence.

>>it only becomes so if it results in you
>>failing to accomplish a legal duty.
>
>Or a moral one.

Not if you're talking about the legal term "negligence".