can't technology stop unlicensed drivers?

a story that has been repeated many many times. her license was taken away, but that didn't stop this drunk from killing. the problem is not just that she was drunk, or that they didn't take her license away. she didn't have a license, but she kept driving without it. the license law currently cannot be effectively enforced. how many more innocent people will have to die needless and horrible deaths before we finally adopt a system that prevents people from driving unless they have a valid license?

Wrong-way car driver on probation for DUI, public records show
Oakland motorists killed in collision on I-80 near Rodeo
Demian Bulwa, Dave Murphy, Chronicle Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 1, 2005

The alleged wrong-way driver who caused Sunday's head-on crash on Interstate 80 near Rodeo, killing an Oakland couple, was drunk, unlicensed and on probation for an earlier drunken-driving conviction, according to authorities and public records.
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