Not only do children and the elderly disadvantaged are banned. US presidents have traditionally not been allowed to drive on public streets, so President Donald Trump may not be surprised to tell him that he can no longer drive his luxury cars. The ban is not limited to the presidential term, but lasts a lifetime, so anyone who wants to drive the United States must give up driving.
When leaders retire from employment in America, they are protected from secret service to death. Former First Lady Hillary Clinton recently revealed that she had not driven the car for 20 years, while her husband, Bill Clinton, says allowing only the back seat of any vehicle “is one of the biggest drawbacks of being a leader of the free world.”
Why can't the president drive? According to Mike Nelson, who served as assistant director of protection operations for the Secret Service, for 29 years, until his retirement in 2012, the ban is not a law as much as a strictly enforced policy.
The reason is that leadership is dangerous, and that former presidents are not good enough, given that the threat to US leaders is always there, is believed to be safer for them to hand it over to agents trained in defensive and evasive leadership maneuvers. Strangely, politics belongs to President John F. Kennedy, who was killed in a car, but was not behind the wheel at the time.
As such, Lyndon Johnson joins history as the last president to lead himself on public roads, which he often did to and from his Texas ranch. Once someone becomes president, he will not even have to stop the red lights, and if it sounds too bad, he is on a helicopter.
Similarly, George W. Bush recently admitted that he had not driven his car on public roads for nearly 25 years, even though he was allowed to drive his own Ford truck at his Texas ranch until he sold it at a charitable auction for $ 300,000. It is a fictional sum.
However, President Donald Reagan objected to the policy, banning his car by driving a four-wheel drive jeep at his Santa Barbara ranch, causing panic for his protection team. "He was in the driver's seat and I was in the passenger's seat, and I was waiting for death," said former intelligence agent Stephen Collo. "Everything was completely open, not seat belts.
These well-trained officers could put their lives at risk to save the president, as did the agent, who had a bullet in his body to save Reagan's life in 1981.
Driving without a license
In contrast, the Queen of Britain is still driving in the public streets, and sometimes no one accompanies her. In fact, the Queen never had to take the driving test, the only person in the UK allowed to drive without a license.
Moreover, the Queen is also allowed to drive a car without a number plate, which is not allowed on the roads in the UK.
The Queen of Britain is allowed to drive without a car
Number plate, which is not allowed to do
On UK roads.