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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: 1) by stretch611 on Sunday August 21 2016, @07:29PM
you are right, there is no constitutional right to drive in the US... but that is not a reason not to lobby to let people drive.
Americans have a love affair with cars... Many people equate an open road with the freedom to go anywhere.
If this ever come close to happening, there will be more people screaming about it then there are people with guns in this country... far more.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 3, Informative) by snufu on Sunday August 21 2016, @10:25PM
Americans are trapped in an abusive relationship with their cars. People don't own their cars, their cars own them. Want to leave your car? Not possible because oil and car companies either dismantled or strangled mass transit alternatives and encouraged housing and city development that REQUIRES a car to function.
As far as equating driving a car with freedom, you freedom ends where public safety begins. Vehicle related fatalities are the leading cause of preventable deaths. So it will probably go down something like smoking. You are free to smoke in your home, but you have no constitutional right to smoke in public and the number of public spaces where you can smoke are gradually decreasing to zero. Municipalities will follow a similar pattern with driverless cars.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Sunday August 21 2016, @10:42PM
That's why I ride a motorcycle. We rarely get snow or ice here, but the hills make biking unrealistic. Excluding maintenance it's roughly $500 a year. Which is about half of the cost of tidying the bus.
Plus, I can come and go on my schedule without having to waste a lot of time waiting for transfers.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @12:33AM
you freedom ends where public safety begins.
No, it doesn't. That's the same logic that is used to justify mass surveillance. Oftentimes freedom is more important than safety, and requiring everyone who wants to drive a car use cars filled with freedom-denying software and/or submit to surveillance is simply intolerable.