I have what I think is a pretty good idea. But I bring it before this distinguished forum to have it shot full of holes and left for dead. This idea came to me today as I was driving on the highways of Israel. Perhaps it would not be applicable in countries like the U.S. where all drivers are safe and courteous.<\/p>\n
The idea is to create a call registry where dangerous drivers can be quickly and easily reported by anyone. The problem is that reckless drivers seem to move with relative impunity until they see a squad car. Perhaps the random nature of the presence of police vehicles works out in the end to punish these offenders, but my idea would make it prudent to always<\/em> be a safe driver.<\/p>\n A call line would be established (easily accessible by dialing *5555 or the like) where the offending driver’s license plate can then be entered. Perhaps a code could also be given to list the offense (1 – reckless driving; 2 – suspected drunk driving; etc.). <\/p>\n Now the trick to make this work is the use of computer technology to collate the calls to determine 1) if a driver is reported multiple times within a short time frame; 2) if a caller has a record of reliability. Thus if a driver gets 5 calls within 5 minutes reporting him of suspected drunk driving, then that report would be deemed more credible. (Multiple calls from the same phone number would be disregarded.) Each caller for that report would receive a higher credibility rating because their report was confirmed by others. This would help to discourage prank calls or dishonest reports. I think it would work best in catching those drivers who are speeding through traffic, cutting multiple people off, and just being a general hazard.<\/p>\n Offenders could be sent a warning the first time, alerting them to the fact that their driving habits are being observed by everybody<\/em>. Future offenses could result in appropriate fines or worse. The goal of course is not increased revenue, but safer roads by reducing the most dangerous driving practices.<\/p>\n It could be argued that reporting an incident by phone could create an additional hazard, but many people have hands-free phones and there’s no reason that the call center couldn’t take voice input for the license number, just as banks do on calls today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have what I think is a pretty good idea. But I bring it before this distinguished forum to have it shot full of holes and left for dead. This idea came to me today as I was driving on the highways of Israel. Perhaps it would not be applicable in countries like the U.S.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}