is carpooling something that an adult and a baby can do? Or is carpooling, and using the carpooling and High Occupancy Vehicle lanes, something set aside for getting more drivers off the roads, and more cars... so, isn't using kids to get your carpool lane access, illegal? What about pregnant women? Why are motorcycles legally HOV lane users?

I think this is an example that can be used to show that as long as you are looking for a way to use the carpool lanes, and avoid slow traffic, and traffic jams, there are options. 

I may be wrong, but I think you can even pay for a carpool lane pass, and drive in those HOV lanes alone, as long as you pay the govt the bribe they require. I believe that's what the E Z Pass is. 

Anyway, what triggered this question? 

A new Virginia bill would recognize a fetus as vehicle passenger when determining occupancy in carpool lanes. If passed, a pregnant woman's unborn baby would count as a passenger when driving on Virginia's expressways.

Well, that's complicated by the political mess that is whether the US Govt decides that an unborn baby is a human (you already know they can't define what a woman is (I kid you not)) or isn't. If it's a human, though not born, and not breathing, then abortion is murdering a human, and premeditated. If it's not a human until it breaths air, then, abortion is birth control. So, if the govt is going to decide on the actual status of an unborn baby... it ought to make it clear that there will be one definitive measurement of "life" and "human" and all the rest of the facets of that complicated issue. Because as it currently stands (as far as I understand it) if a pregnant woman is killed the baby's death is an additional count of killing a human. 

Sigh... there just isn't anything simple until the method of using words, and their definitions, is agreed to by a society. Frankly, there are too many crazy morons in any country to set the fundamental foundation of communication in the basis of any societies commonality. 

life is complicated with such problems, and there are too many people who will not agree with others, about many things... including a social structure, a logical and reasonable government, establishing taxes, and how the govt uses those... whether or not religion ought to be in the govt structure, and whether a secular govt can tax the religions. Most people can not agree on most topics. Was OJ guilty? Should we build reactor's for generating electricity? Is the earth flat? Is NASA a waste of taxes? Is the 2nd amendment clearly stating that the govt must not hinder a citizens gun ownership and acquisition? Are aliens visiting earth in space ships? Are ghosts real? Or Bigfoot?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-virginia-bill-recognize-fetus-passenger-vehicles-carpool-lanes