[zibit]

Let me give all the non Virginians a quick glimpse into how unfair this is. DC has a thing called slug lines. Traffic is so bad here that drivers will offer strangers a ride so they can get on the HOV lanes. Lots of people do this. There are lines all over DC and Virginia of people doing this.

Does the Virginia DMV say anything about slug lines and how unsafe they may be? Or how the drivers may or may not have training? Or how the cars may not have been properly inspected?

NO, in fact they encourage it (see below)

Why? cause it doesn't disrupt the powers that be

They actually link to slug lines - again a popular practice of allowing strangers into the car of another stranger - on this page:

http://www.virginiadot.org/travel/hov-rulesfaq.asp

[JPKab]

See my comment in this thread about me Ubering to DCA on Friday, and now when I get back in tomorrow I won't have it.

But just want to point out: Because nobody is being paid in slug lines, they couldn't tell people not to do it even if they wanted to.

You make an excellent point about how they claim to care about safety and then tell people to go use slug lines.

For a good laugh, go look at the slug line horror stories. My favorite is a guy who got in a car with a woman who was pulled over minutes later with a suspended license and warrants. She was carted off to jail, and the police officers gave him a ride to a strip mall where he had to call a taxi.