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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 Phoenix666 on Monday August 22 2016, @12:35PM
My family and i finished an 8,000 mile summer roadtrip around America on Saturday, so i had a lot of time to reflect on this very subject. Mandated driverless cars would solve the problem of reckless driving on well-travelled roads, but would kill thousands more on those that are unusual because there are enormous gaps in the software. We wound up dependent on old-fashioned paper maps because google maps didn't even register the roads we were on and couldn't plot GPS because we were outside coverage 50% of the time.
In fact, eliminating cell/data coverage would dramatically improve safety on the roads because the erratic drivers we encountered were invariably gawking at their cell phones.
The only thing that is really required to keep roads tolerably safe is not to universally, totally invade privacy, but for the highway patrol to do their jobs. They do that in most places, with the notable exception of Tennessee, where yutzes in Ford F150's drive 90-95mph on roads rated for 65mph because no one patrols the roads.
Washington DC delenda est.