I don’t disagree with you that we have a bunch of different skill sets on the road. Young Drivers with fantastic physical skills but poor judgement and limited experience. Older drivers with great experience but declining physical skills. People that are feverish, angry,sad,frustrated. The highways have all this and more! Throw in different sized vehicles and wow, it’s a witches brew.
My point is, the easy answer is to flood the streets with cops, armed with draconian measures, and a prohibition for every eventuality. Or my solution is watch my ass, and drive like I am a rifle company point man walking through enemy territory. I am certain that creating a powerful system of Police, judges and courts is far more dangerous than accepting some risk, and watching my ass!
You live by my standards. There is NOBODY who can protect your precious “ass” as well as YOU can.
Keep up the good work and wave should we ever meet (but keep at least one hand on the steering wheel please.
The problem is that the government does turn good - logical ideas into laws instead of guidelines.
Educating people as to “why” these (laws - guideline - suggestions) are instituted would be far better than just making them rigid laws and then ignore them until it is to late and some stupid fool kills someone.
Government would be much more effective by providing an educational program for “car seats for kids”, “keeping both hands on the wheel”, “don’t text while driving”, “keep the speed down” etc, etc, etc......
But THEY don’t think that way.
THEY (the government lawmaking officials), see their job as making logical rules and that it is up to others to enforce them in the manner intended. Instead we, the citizens, only see “overloards” throwing the weight around and forget the logic and practical side to many of these laws.