You discount that we have a horrible and state-by-state driving rules and training? We do not have skilled people on the road, we have people who have no respect for the machine they are in. Do you not think the government could regulate that, too?
Some room for improvement here but many people will ignore training regardless of how in-depth it may be. So I think the bigger issue is the infrastructure that allows and encourages unsafe behavior.
If it’s going to work you’ll need meaningful levels of enforcement and punishments for unsafe behavior, including license suspension. Suspensions are rarely used today because it’s seen as “too harsh” for most infractions. The lack of alternatives to car based transit makes it an economic death sentence. So again, the solution will need changes to and investment in infrastructure.
But the problem is bad so I’m certainly open to these educational approaches in combination with other changes. What I’m not open to is the common attitude of “It’s those other bad drivers’ fault so I personally don’t need to change anything.” Until this gets better I think all road users have a moral obligation to advocate for change.
Im saying none of the drivers earned driving in the first place. You act like we have a good and vigerous process, like we don’t all know people who shouldn’t be on the road who get their license?
Just because someone has a license doesnt meann they arent an idiot. Where i came from you could do training OR have a patent sign a form that you trained. Training was 4 weekends and a few hundred dollars.
This is ridiculous, how much of this would be better if people didn’t get their license until they actually had some proficiency?
You discount that we have a horrible and state-by-state driving rules and training? We do not have skilled people on the road, we have people who have no respect for the machine they are in. Do you not think the government could regulate that, too?
Some room for improvement here but many people will ignore training regardless of how in-depth it may be. So I think the bigger issue is the infrastructure that allows and encourages unsafe behavior.
If it’s going to work you’ll need meaningful levels of enforcement and punishments for unsafe behavior, including license suspension. Suspensions are rarely used today because it’s seen as “too harsh” for most infractions. The lack of alternatives to car based transit makes it an economic death sentence. So again, the solution will need changes to and investment in infrastructure.
But the problem is bad so I’m certainly open to these educational approaches in combination with other changes. What I’m not open to is the common attitude of “It’s those other bad drivers’ fault so I personally don’t need to change anything.” Until this gets better I think all road users have a moral obligation to advocate for change.
Im saying none of the drivers earned driving in the first place. You act like we have a good and vigerous process, like we don’t all know people who shouldn’t be on the road who get their license?
Just because someone has a license doesnt meann they arent an idiot. Where i came from you could do training OR have a patent sign a form that you trained. Training was 4 weekends and a few hundred dollars.
This is ridiculous, how much of this would be better if people didn’t get their license until they actually had some proficiency?