General Road and Highway Discussion

[tomh009]

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.

Given the number of police available for traffic duty vs the number of drivers and the number of km of roads/streets, 99.99% of bad driving goes unobserved.  And there is no public appetite for increasing that number 10x.  So unless we do it with unattended cameras (increasing number of violations can be identified automatically based on live camera input) we really will not catch most of the problem drivers through enforcement.

And old people should absolutely need to do a driving test. Most 90-year-olds (an increasing segment of the population!) do not have reaction times necessary to be driving in city traffic.