tdgeek:

 

Technofreak:

 

 

 

Reducing speed is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff approach where you reduce the height of the cliff to reduce injury. There needs to be a reduction in the number of people falling off the cliff. Driver training, testing and education will do this.

 

 

Agree but it will never happen. We dont want to pay an extra tax to fund AKL transport, so if everyone was forced to go to and pay for driving education every other year, they will revolt. You could restrict cars to 110kph but drivers will revolt. Like climate change, most people, want to make roads safer as long as it doesn't affect them

 

There are ways of incentivising people to undertake driver training/education. Things like reduced vehicle premiums or reduced registration fees. It's done in the private aircraft insurance area in some parts of the world where participation in approved training programmes reduces the insurance premium, and it works.

I see the biggest input into driver education being when a person gets their licence. I consider the current programme doesn't have enough focus on open road driving skills. For example, how many people on here can tell me how to tell which direction a bend in the road goes by looking at the marker posts ahead?

Another example. When driving on rural roads how many people recognise fresh tractor wheel marks from the mud on the road and as a result realise there is probably a tractor not too far in front and that slowing down might be a good idea. None of this is rocket science but until you're made aware of it you don't know. Right now i don't believe there is sufficient focus on these finer points.

Nor is there any focus on how to handle a vehicle if it starts to slide.

Completion of a Defensive Driving Course or similar should be compulsory also.