Christian McArdle
Thanks Christian.
It seems, therefore, that having impaired driving ability due to age, from an insurance point of view at least, can be compensated for by less aggressive driving (amongst other things). The nett effect on the premium is zero (or even negative).
That implies that you can trade off between impairment and aggression, which implies that impairment due to drink *can* be compensated for by changing your driving style - obviously only to a limited extent. Now alcohol does make people overconfident and tend to overestimate their abilities, so it's probably difficult, if not impossible to decide to drive 'carefully' - but there does seem to be scope for saying people would be able to compensate for a limited level of alcohol. Funnily enough, anecdotally from a traffic policeman, I'm told they can identify many drunk drivers as the ones driving too carefully - it ain't natural!
I would not want to go back to the bad old days. I visited an expat community once that were stuck in a time-warp, as such communities often are. It was a regular occurence that people would drive home from a particular bar, because they were so drunk as to be incapable of walking home. (Being where they were, it was probably unwise to walk out late at night anyway). I was shocked at their atbreastude - and they thought I was weird for not drinking so I would be able drive safely back to my hotel.
Fuel Tax 1173JNugent I've already provided you with links to several. The following (published on 12th July this year) is a good recent summary of developments :- ============================================================= Source: "Germany's Toll Collect doing...
I know some work has been done on using a video game to test a driver's reactions before their vehicle would start - such a system could save many lives. It's my belief that fatigued drivers are a significant hazard on the roads, and at present, there's little that can be done about that.
Regards,
Sid
