General Road and Highway Discussion

[SammyOES]

I'm not sure why you guys think road tests will be useful when real driving isn't. Things like aggressive/distracted driving will never be caught because these people can still drive fine when they need to. Maybe we need to step up enforcement / demerit point penalties, but I'd still like to judge people on their everyday driving.

I guess a driving test is good for finding people that have forgotten / don't know basic rules, but that seems like a really small group of 'bad drivers'. More often than not people know the rules and just don't care.

Or take something like people not knowing the rules about roundabouts. Maybe instead of spending a crazy amount of money on testing we could spend a fraction of that on enforcing problem areas. A blitz of roundabouts where we ticket people that swerve through lanes, don't signal properly, don't yield, etc. etc. would go really far to straightening people out.