XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-01, Alan Baker  wrote:   
   > On 2014-02-28 22:17:32 +0000, Jolly Roger said:   
   >   
   >>>>>> Quite sane. Anything that takes a driver's attention away from the task   
   >>>>>> at hand is a threat to public safety.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> It even includes paper maps, I might add.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Paper maps--clumsy to use, difficult to read--should be near the very   
   >>>>>> top of the list of items forbidden to use while driving.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What should be against the law is driving without due care and   
   attention...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> ...and it already is.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Unfortunately, it's not working very well.   
   >>>   
   >>> So, then let's try and fix that...   
   >>>   
   >>> ...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.   
      
   I am all for that! Tests in the United States are nothing but a sad joke.   
      
   > Follow it up with mandatory re-testing at LEAST once every 10 years and   
   > preferably once every 5.   
      
   All for that as well.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Agreed.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   I'm right there with you on all of the above. I just don't have much   
   faith it'll happen.   
      
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