I'd rather take my chances (which are good - you really shouldn't be all that scared about the chances of being in a serious accident in this country - it's about 2 1/2 times more likely than deaths from falling down stairs, and most people aren't clamouring about that). I know all the reasons for these things but that doesn't mean I agree with them (and before anyone starts that doesn't mean go for the opposite extreme either). Not because I want to drive like an idiot, but because I find the ever-increasing level of nannying, the constant "no-one can be trusted, you've all got to be treated like children" attitude, the idea that because some people aren't responsible we should assume no-one is - that is not the sort of world I want to live in, not in the slightest. I hate the idea of everything being monitored (even if just locally, with no storage). I hate the "you need looking after" attitude. I suffer from depression and this is one of the contributions to it. That is simply not the world I want to live in, and if the price of not living in it is slightly more risk it's a risk I'd be more than happy to take.Phil wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 20:20Because Human beings cannot be trusted to 'do the right thing'!
We have been through this on other threads over the years - your hatred of 'systems' that 'track' you is the inevitable consequences of others not following the rules and a method of weeding out the dishonest needing to be in place.
If everyone was honest and well behaved there would be no need for a criminal justice system.
Regardless of whether you personally be a paragon of virtue behind the wheel - the number of prosecutions for motoring offences PROVES that a large chunk of the UK population are not!
How would you like it if one of your nearest and dearest gets mown down by a car going over the posted limit or a lorry that has defective brakes as occurred in Bath a few years ago. (In that case the lorry had a warning light driven by a 'machine watching over it' telling the driver that the brakes were defective - yet the operator of the lorry knowingly let it to continue to be used).
We owe it to society as a whole to ensure that people with the potential to do harm are stopped if possible - and yes, that does entail a significant sacrifice of personal liberty to happen, but something that is beneficial overall.
The intentions behind it all are good (but you know what they say about the road to hell) but personally speaking the effects are making a world I find bloody unpleasant.
Far too often the response to a lack of responsibility in some quarters is to remove it from all. This is insulting and patronising to the majority, and hits the least hard at the people who need to be on the receiving end of it the most (those most likely to ignore and / or work their way around it). It's looking for easy answers.
No doubt cue someone calling all of that nonsense simply because they don't feel the same way and are incapable of understanding how anyone can see the world differently than they do (usually boils down to "it doesn't bother me so it shouldn't bother you.")