TrafficAccident Posted by joseaugusto on 29-Dec-2004 - Day(s) left: 1212
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According to a recent report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the main factor causing traffic accidents is bad behaviour on the roads.
There is an easy way to solve the traffic road accidents that are killing thousands of people worldwide: to make the drivers watch each others.
This is how I imagine it: Each year, each driver would be given a certain amount of points. Every time a driver sees some bad behaviour or infringement of rules by some other driver, it reports it, on a web page indicating only the car’s licence number and the amounts of points given. For a certain amount of points, the aggressive drivers would be inhibited from driving.
Of course this could only be put to work after a trial period of 2 or 3 years and using a complex algorithm of data mining that could detect frauds and patterns of behaviour. Just one example: if drivers A keeps reporting driver B, but no one else reports about him, is driver A really serious about the reporting or the issue between them is about something else besides traffic rules? So, this particular data is disregarded.
I am pretty sure that after an initial period of testing and balancing the figures, the most aggressive drivers would stand out from the crowd really easily.
I think this will be adapted by 2007 at least by one country.
I don't believe that such a system of reporting on bad drivers will work simply because of the relativism of the reporter. What if some old granny constantly reports on people who are driving eratically around her, yet she is causing their eratic driving by perhaps driving in the wrong lane. Furthermore, you are expecting all drivers to use this system. This means that first you have to make the system equally available to every driver, and then require them to report bad drivers.
Author: Perrier
I don't think such a system can be implemented for a number of reasons, being relativism the first one: driver x drives really slow, making others angry. They will probably report driver x, although he's not commiting any infraction.
I think there may be an alternative solution, able to reduce traffic accidents: present technology would have no trouble in automatically restrict a vehicles velocity to the parameters of the place where he is driving. For instance, if the permitted max. velocity in a city is 50 Km/h, there is no reason for a car to go any faster than that.
I hope this velocity inhibitor never takes place though... I'm a speedster!
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