The regulation of cars exists mostly to extract rent from you rather than keep you safe in the USA. I don’t personally know a single person who has failed to obtain a drivers license.
Get into a hit and run and there’s almost no chance anyone finds who did it. There’s a near 100% chance the person that did it paid the registration fee for their car though, paid to get it inspected, paid to renew their license with no exam, etc.
Are you honestly surprised that roughly 0 HN users read that, or that they are loudly complaining about this, likely without even reading beyond the headline of this post?