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Your idea works until you look at something like the autobahn. Having driven on it I can say what I feel the main factor to safety is driver behavior. I see mor
by geggam 7y ago
Your idea works until you look at something like the autobahn. Having driven on it I can say what I feel the main factor to safety is driver behavior. I see more turn signals used and when someone is going faster the other folks tend to move out of their way.
Its more of a social mindset that creates safe roads than anything IMO.
- wongarsu 7y agoDriver behaviour on the Autobahn is not some accident. Germany has the most expensive drivers licence in the world due to the number of lessions you have to take to even be allowed to take the exams, with most people opting in to even more lessons to pass the exams. To pass the practical exam you have to drive pretty much perfectly (a small number of people never pass). So everybody knows how to drive correctly and has it drilled into them at least once in their life how important that is. Obviously with routine some things slip, but nobody wants to get rear-ended by a car going 120 mph on the Autobahn either.
- geggam 7y agoSo you are saying people are trained to be personally responsible? I agree with that. The US has been training people to blame others for several decades now. The difference is obvious
- Haga 7y agoIt also empowered generations of risk averse people into positions of veto power. Removing them is surely not safe.
- hexane360 7y ago>Your idea works until you look at something like the autobahn Just because there are other methods to achieve safety doesn't mean the ones I mentioned don't work. The Autobahn still has rumble strips and German cars still have airbags.