TrafficAccident 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. |