It's time to bring back invalid carriages

I give many thanks to Herr brian_eggleston, for him presenting this problem and his unique if not egregious way of solving it, I look forward to this debate. I must however begin with saying that The problem or premise that would warrent the re-institution of invalid carriages does not exist, and even if it did they are not a viable solution to fixing it. Pros whole case is based on two things, the first being that people with disibilities are often deprived of a handicapped parking space because it is stolen by healthy people mis-using the handicapped badge. Firstly, this does not happen often enough to warrant such a huge (and rights-depriving) change in policy. The most accurate number I could find was that half a million handicaped badges are being misused (http://fullfact.org...) That seems to be at about 20% of all card holders, so at any given time there is a very small chance that, say, even 1 misuser will be occupying a spot at the local SuperMarket. It is an astronomically small chance that all the spots will be occupied by misusers at one location, so the problem and driving force for these cars as described does not exist. Your article seems to say that the car was invented to accomodate paralysed drivers more than stop fraud. Secondly this does not solve the alleged problem because, while it's true that you only talked about motorists who borrow or fake these cards, most card misusers at one point had a legitimate claim to the card because of a temporary ailment. This is the real/main reason why a ill person might be deprived of a spot. At some point most misusers needed the card, so by forcing them to drive a car, you basically give them the option of still using the car long after their ailment has healed, which invites them to occupy the handicapped spaces, regardless of if they are ill or not, for their entire duration of owning the car. I'd like to put one piece of constructive material forward, who in the bloody gods name do handicapped people think they are getting their own special type of car? Although the car looks ridicolous and is bad quality, it is probably given for free, or is atained quite easily. This does three things, it encourages people to apply for being handicapped, encourages people to continue the status of being handicapped, and puts a social gap between handicaps and "regular" people. More people will fight to obtain the labelment of being handicapped to obtain this car, even if they aren't seriously hurt. They will lie and coerce the administration to gain a free or cheap car, and then take up handicapped spaces that a real handicap could use. This also discourages people from getting rid of the status of handicapped after they have healed-they might fake illness so they can keep the car and keep using handicapped parking spaces, taking them away from people who need them the most. Lastly this imposes a gap, handicapped people will think they are better than the rest of us becuse they get their special cars and special parking spaces. I have no doubt in my mind they won't even twitch when they run over pedestrians with these special cars because they stepped inside a handicapped parking space and got it dirty. For the reasons that this problem does not exist how pro described it-the problem is with people who had a legitimate claim to the permit (And these cars just encourage them holding onto that claim), the cars will in no means solve this non existent problem, and that this gaps Handicapped people and regular people. I beg, to oppose -Vlad