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   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article , Alan Baker   
    wrote:   
      
   > >> ...not introduce a system of micro-management of activities in which a   
   > >> driver can and cannot engage.   
   > >   
   > > I'm all ears...   
   >   
   > I'd start with an initial driver's test that isn't a joke. Adopt a   
   > system like Germany's where there is mandatory, REAL training, followed   
   > by a meaningful driving test.   
   >   
   > Follow it up with mandatory re-testing at LEAST once every 10 years and   
   > preferably once every 5.   
   >   
   > Next, change every speed limit to be based on the best assessment of   
   > what speed is appropriate for that stretch of road and not just on what   
   > will help generate revenue. That would also involve changing speed   
   > limits down, BTW; it's utterly ludicrous that residential streets with   
   > cars parked on each side, leaving only a single travel lane often have   
   > the same limit (30mph/50kmph) as arterial surface roads with 2 and   
   > sometimes 3 travel lanes in each direction.   
   >   
   > Then, have police start ticketing people for the things that really ARE   
   > unsafe: failure to yield the right of way, tailgating, failure to keep   
   > right. The courts already basically take the word of cops without   
   > question, so why not make it for things that actually matter.   
   >   
   > How's that to go on with?   
      
   excellent ideas.   
      
   not that any of them will ever happen.   
      
   much easier to ban cellphones and pretend it does something.   
      
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