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[...] It is clear that a significant minority of British drivers put their time and their 'needs' above the safety of other road users and pedestrians. In a few decades, the driverless car will be perfected and the driven car must be made obsolete, preferably by law.
Until then the Government and the insurance industry should take radical steps to help residents of rural and urban communities reclaim their neighbourhoods from the lorries, the lunatics - and those Great British Motorists who like toddlers think they can do what they like, and explode with rage and indignation when questioned about it.
Black boxes compulsory in every vehicle, with improved technology that detects speed limit breaking and careless or aggressive driving.
Insurance companies encouraged to hike premiums immediately and punitively as bad driving is revealed.
Insurance companies obliged to hand over to DVLA and / or police all data that reveals traffic offences and dangerous driving.
Legal framework to allow prosecution and driving bans relating to offences revealed by black boxes.
Legal changes to encourage use of dashcam / helmet-cam / CCTV evidence to prosecute motorists.
Comprehensive review of 30mph speed limits, with local consultations on which should be lowered to 20mph.
Limit revs to 3,000rpm on all vehicles - as condition of passing MOT - to cut noise and dangerous acceleration.
Funding for technology that will limit all vehicles automatically to the local speed limit (and in the case of national speed limits, a safe speed for the road conditions); and will prevent heavy goods vehicles from using inappropriate rural and urban roads.
Source: This is Money
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Sunday August 21 2016, @07:02PM
Fascism will return to Europe in the name of Safety.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @10:29PM
WTF?! Like how safety was/is the gateway of fascist left-wing states of the USA that want to ban things. E.g. abortion because of broom closet sizes, and unnecessary ultrasound scans...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 21 2016, @11:49PM
fascist left-wing
Those 2 terms are opposites.
If you mean "bully boys" or "Authoritarian" you should use those terms.
Fascism is where Capitalists are in complete control of the economy and the government.
Fascism is Authoritarian (in the extreme, that's jackboots, brown shirts, and clubs for beating people).
Charted, Fascism is at the top-Right of the political palate. [politicalcompass.org]
(Not coincidentally, that was where the Clown Car of Republican candidates were clustered in this year's presidential run; the chart has omitted people since the primaries ended.)
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What Fascism is NOT is Socialism (anti-Capitalism; control by the workers; "The Left").
It's also not Libertarian (supporting civil liberties rather than overlords AKA a bottom-up system), which is the bottom half of the chart.
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want to ban things. E.g. abortion because of broom closet sizes
You must be dyslexic.
What you described is Authoritarianism.[1]
It's as far from "Left" as you could possibly get.
The folks who are pulling that shit are Reactionaries AKA "The Far Right" AKA Fox Watchers (who are also Authoritarian).
If you want to connect "ban things" with not-Far-Right entities, you need to look to stuff like politically-incorrect speech or smoking.
[1] It's also Fundamentalist religiosity.
The Left also tends to be much less religious.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @03:52AM
Interesting revisionist approach to defining the political spectrum.
For example, I wonder where exactly Comrade Stalin would have fitted in to that view of things?
About as far away from "Right" as you can imagine ideologically. Yet implementing the exact same abominations, just by a different name.
Yes, two dimensions are better than one for representing the political spectrum. But that's still nowhere near a complete model.
Start by realising that (if you're not willing to recognise at least 3 of 4 dimensions in their own right), a 2d model must at least be *curved* -- all 4 corners of your flat model (i.e. the extremists of any creed) meet at the same point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @04:36AM
Stalin [...] as far away from "Right" as you can imagine
Nope. Lenin and Stalin like to put a veneer of "communism" on the system they had but what they had for government was Totalitarianism.
The "collectivism" they had was forced labor (and, after that, they stole ALL the harvest and tens of millions of those workers starved).
Their economy, as illustrated above, benefited only a few and everyone else was left with crumbs.
That's CAPITALISM--specifically, State Capitalism. [wikipedia.org]
Stop pretending you know anything about economics or government.
Those who fed you all that propaganda did a good job.
Your head is full of nonsense.
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