On Mon Mar 02 2015 at 05:09:20 <spin@hackerspace.pl> wrote:

Oh rly? I thought it should be yay for public transport (especially
trams, trains and subway). A (wishfully) cheap, prdictably fast, safe
way of going from A to B without having to spend countless zombie hours
behind a wheel.

Of course. I'm a huge proponent of public transport and I strongly believe that civilian car traffic should be banned in city centres, with an exception for public services (police, fire brigade, EMTs) and goods delivery companies (to top up shops with ware and to move furniture around).

You use a car because you want to get somewhere fast, and there is no
better alternative. Instead of making the car slower, find a better
solution.

You use a car because the society tells you it's a good idea. In dense cities, it's not. Also, as you remarked before, humans behind the wheels tend to turn into idiots. And it's not about just making cars slower, it's about making drivers obey some safety rules *at all*.

Also, what you really wanna measure is inappropriate behaviour combined
with speeding that can cause accidents, and get those particular drivers
off the road. And for that, dash cams are much better.

Maybe, but the dash cams don't integrate well. They are distributed and don't communicate with each other or any law enforcement agency. I'd be very happy if all dashcam data was shared (privacy vs. progress again) and people were automatically fined for doing shitty things on the road.