(sorry for replying so late - I just remembered this comment)
I wholeheartedly agree that we should increase driving standards, and better traffic engineering is the first step. I was just commenting on the fact that most people I talk to don't want to learn how to make their morning commute safer and more efficient.
Well that's exactly the point...most people don't want to learn, regardless of geographical location. The trick in traffic engineering is to devise solutions that are inherently simple and require little or no training. To use the modern roundabout example again: people are initially confused because it looks complicated from the outside, but when you drive it, it's fairly difficult to mess it up.
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(sorry for replying so late - I just remembered this comment)
I wholeheartedly agree that we should increase driving standards, and better traffic engineering is the first step. I was just commenting on the fact that most people I talk to don't want to learn how to make their morning commute safer and more efficient.
Well that's exactly the point...most people don't want to learn, regardless of geographical location. The trick in traffic engineering is to devise solutions that are inherently simple and require little or no training. To use the modern roundabout example again: people are initially confused because it looks complicated from the outside, but when you drive it, it's fairly difficult to mess it up.