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posted by janrinok on Sunday August 21 2016, @06:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-is-safer? dept.

[...] 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.

  1. Black boxes compulsory in every vehicle, with improved technology that detects speed limit breaking and careless or aggressive driving.

  2. Insurance companies encouraged to hike premiums immediately and punitively as bad driving is revealed.

  3. Insurance companies obliged to hand over to DVLA and / or police all data that reveals traffic offences and dangerous driving.

  4. Legal framework to allow prosecution and driving bans relating to offences revealed by black boxes.

  5. Legal changes to encourage use of dashcam / helmet-cam / CCTV evidence to prosecute motorists.

  6. Comprehensive review of 30mph speed limits, with local consultations on which should be lowered to 20mph.

  7. Limit revs to 3,000rpm on all vehicles - as condition of passing MOT - to cut noise and dangerous acceleration.

  8. 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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @09:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @09:05AM (#391530)

    You travel below the speed limit? One or two MPH is alright, but you like to travel ten MPH below? Again, get off the road.

    And if you insist on driving below the speed limit on the motorway, get behind a lorry (tractor trailer for you Americans), and drive the same speed as it does.

    Don't spend several minutes passing it with a speed difference of a couple of MPH.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 22 2016, @10:45AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 22 2016, @10:45AM (#391550) Journal

    Oh, that's a good one. We've all seen it - old dude is driving 54 mph, comes up behind a truck doing 53, and it takes him about 5 minutes to "safely" pass the truck. And, meanwhile, 300 cars behind him are compacted closely together. By this time there is five miles of open road ahead of him, and everyone wonders WTF happend to cause this packing. It only takes one idiot to totally screw things up. Assuming that all that traffic travels at the same speeds without stopping for that long, it's going to take a half hour for that huge pack to untangle itself, because MORE cars are coming up behind, adding to the mess.

    https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/12/traffic-waves/ [kqed.org]

    • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Monday August 22 2016, @03:57PM

      by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Monday August 22 2016, @03:57PM (#391698)

      It takes only one person driving slightly below the limit to break that up.

      The slow driver forms an open space ahead of them. As the slow driver approaches the blockage, stuck drivers can change lanes as needed.

      Traffic Waves [youtube.com]

      Text version [trafficwaves.org]