Okay, here's the problem I think we need to solve: On my way to work every morning I seem to always get stuck behind someone who really doesn't want to go to work. There is one guy who drives 10 to 15 MPH BELOW the speed limit when he's smoking a cigarette and then SPEEDS up once he tosses the butt out window. There is another lady who reads the newspaper at the stoplights. The problem is sometimes she does not realize the light turned green, and then gets upset when someone beeps the horn. I could provide more examples, but I think you get the picture. I live a little more than 11 miles from work and it sometime takes me +45 minutes to get to work (if my math is correct, that's 14.6 MPH). The crazy thing is that the police have put-up signs that say we're SPEEDING during the morning commute along this stretch of six lane highway. When these slowpokes sleep late and I catch the traffic lights just right, I can get to work in a little under 20 minutes. My daily oberservations indicate that people who aren't paying attention, cost everyone both time and fuel. One solution to low attention drivers causing traffic slowdowns is to make sure the people who really don't want to get to work are always late for work and supervisors take disciplinary action!! That's not going to happen. But, I'm thinking that a driver feedback system and performance signal might help get these unmotivated people moving. A light might be programmed to flash on a heads up display indicating poor driver responsiveness to traffic flow, given some real-time performance model. Another light located on the exterior of the vehicle would also signal local authorities that this driver needs additional training on the impact of their driving performance on system efficiency. The flip side is to go back to a strong driver education system with a focus on effective and efficient driving.
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I would like to see an involuntary "How's my driving?" website where you can submit a review of one's driving by giving their license plate number. Then drivers can get feedback on their driving.
The site would just have to find a way to remove profanity from any comments. :)
The performance should show on a 1-10 scale LED bar lighton the back of the car, so other drivers might be carefularound drivers who are less impeccable. As well, it wouldbe easier to provide a social rather han legal mechanism toinspire drivers to not be embarassed.
On the same note, a display at the back of the car should indicate the number of tickets (speeding, erratic lane change etc.) have been given to the driver. For that, the car should have a slot, where the driver inserts the license and the license has the ticket information. That way, people will know which driver to avoid.
How about if the car engine gets disabled (slowly, of course) so that the offenders would have to pull over and wait for ten minutes as a "time-out" for their poor driving? It would be great if everyone had the ability to wirelessly "shoot" negative feedback at cars with bad drivers. If enough people shoot the bad driver in a fixed period of time, their car would get the time-out. (Can you tell who's got a pre-school aged video game playing kid?)
This is the very idea that helped me find whynot through a google search. I would really like to see a driver feedback website. Unfortunately 'roadrage.com' is already taken (for some worthless rage inducing flipcharts). I belive that something like 'driverfeedback.com' could attract enough peeved drivers to make some advertising revenue. Someone please run with this.