At last someone makes the point! It is not a case of whether the roads are safe. Cars are complex machines and the roads are crowded, there is always going to be human error. Little black boxes are not going to eliminate that error, or prevent bad driving. As Lee points out, the real issue is the worrying trend by the governments of the day to point the finger at its people and say - it is the people fault! We are not mature enough, intelligent enough, political enough to make informed judgements so therefore we must have more invasive monitoring, less privacy, more laws, more control. Beware the Nanny State - that is a road to hell that may well be paved with good intentions, but the destination remains the same.
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At last someone makes the point! It is not a case of whether the roads are safe. Cars are complex machines and the roads are crowded, there is always going to be human error. Little black boxes are not going to eliminate that error, or prevent bad driving.
As Lee points out, the real issue is the worrying trend by the governments of the day to point the finger at its people and say - it is the people fault! We are not mature enough, intelligent enough, political enough to make informed judgements so therefore we must have more invasive monitoring, less privacy, more laws, more control.
Beware the Nanny State - that is a road to hell that may well be paved with good intentions, but the destination remains the same.