Clive George
How does anything like that work? If it could work for you, it will work for a certain level of the rest of the population. Then you caould have advisory signs. I am not an expert in teaching in any way - that is best left to those who competantly can do so.
BBC1 Traffic Cops 40What gets me is this. If you take a gun and you go point it at someone or you use...
Erm, well, I think there would be a much lower level of the population who would have no desire to be educated in certain matters, but then isn't that what points on license are for? Again, I dunno, I'm not a teaching expert.
OK, risk compensation DOES NOT explain the actual reason for people driving more recklessly. It proposes an explanation for the over-all outcome. It is based on a very shakey idea that things are done subconsciously. Why doesn't the drivers subconscious desire for self-preservation over-ride this subconscious reckless driving desire?
Now can you see why the whole premis of risk compensation is based on pretty much nothing? It requires faith - *FAITH!* - in an idea that can't be proved. This is in no way scientific.
Compulsory daytime dipped headlights 38Ok, I haven't mentioned the missing bit here - that there is a reward (percieved or otherwise) for this extra risk taking - could be a faster journey, could be a more enjoyable drive (*). Thus...
Now take my proposed explanation - The driver buttumed the car would be more capable all round as he knows it has ABS. The driver has failed to find out what ABS does and how it will make the car more capable. The driver is at fault for making an buttumption about the car. It is nothing more than driving without due care and attention. Nothing more. And, the bit you snipped about explanations-vs-excuses is very important. An explanation can help to provide data for analysis, and therefore error correction.
Clive, please realise that I am not having a go at you, but I am having a go at 'Risk Compensation' because it has so many obvious flaws in it, it is ridiculous.
Dunno, it hasn't been done.
As I said, it can make cars more visible visible sooner in other road users peripheral vision. That's all I said.
BBC1 Traffic Cops 41Does it matter? In *this* circumstance, it probably wasn't, but how could the police know this for sure? But anyway, this issue goes beyond...
No, Preventing DWDCA is the answer to DWDCA, risk compensation doesn't apply, because it is horse-poo.
No idea. How would you propose it? I think that is a question most road users ask, and certainly every road cop must ask themselves. Hey, I bet if you figured out a way, you could become very rich!
Cheers Clive,
Roger. (Sorry for late reply, was very busy yesterday.)
