{"id":1181,"date":"2009-02-22T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T02:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2009-02-22T22:38:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T02:38:59","slug":"accountability-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/accountability-and-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Accountability and Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share a brief story from my uni days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was heading back from the airport on the motorway, and a car in the lane beside us suddenly jerked to the left, forcing itself into our lane, nearly forcing us off the road. \u00a0Argh!! Five minutes later this same car missed the offramp so swerved across two lanes nearly missing us again. \u00a0I jotted down its number plate. \u00a0Later that day I wandered into uni, only to be very nearly swiped off the road by a lunatic driver. \u00a0The very same driver that had already just about wiped me out. \u00a0Three times, one day, same driver.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The issue here is accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Sure I can report the dangerous driving to the Police who may send a warning letter BUT what difference is that going to make.<\/p>\n<p>Altering the general attitude on the road is almost a culture change.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly in Auckland where I live. \u00a0Drivers are frequently rude, cut in, swerve, drive with no care for others. \u00a0As there is virtually zero accountability such people continue. \u00a0This continues on a downward spiral as it becomes more acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>How could you solve this? Make everyone accountable to their number plate. \u00a0Register each number plate online where people can put feedback on your driving. \u00a0In fairness for each negative response you should have to upload a positive response for someone who was nice to you.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a gold mine of activity, huge opportunity for novel stories to be shared and create accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suddenly a cars value could depend on its driver.<\/li>\n<li>Accountability<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous drivers are quickly identified<\/li>\n<li>Culture change in driving attitudes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would be nice to implement. \u00a0However could you really do this? I fear (like the recording industry) their would be a huge uproar and the dangerous few wouldn&#8217;t let it through. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts? Do you think there is a better way? Or more importantly has a model been proven but in a different scenario?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share a brief story from my uni days: &#8220;I was heading back from the airport on the motorway, and a car in the lane beside us suddenly jerked to the left, forcing itself into our lane, nearly forcing us off the road. \u00a0Argh!! Five minutes later this same car missed the offramp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[337,408,811],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}