Remove anonymity = Better driving standards?

mustrum_ridcully

DaveF327 wrote: »

That was my first thought, but I wonder what is the difference between the mentality of Swiss drivers and British ones...

The difference is quite large I imagine...

Also there are the small matters of Switzerland having one of the highest gun ownerships in the world and every adult male under 30 being a reserve member of the Swiss Militia.

vikingaero

Bad idea.

For example: yesterday I approach a roundabout with 2 exits at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock. There were two approach lanes with a left and right arrow. I took the right lane to turn right. Thicko woman took the left lane to turn right and beeped and flashed at me because I dared to take the correct lane and was in her path. So for that I would possibly be traced and have my car vandalised. Great.

Actually if they did that I'd set up a shell company for our family fleet and register all 10 cars to a mailing address.

jd82

In this country it would just give people the excuse to take the law in to their own hands.

flyingscotno1

sarah_elton wrote: »

I was on the receiving end of road rage last night for the first time in my life. I made a mistake, hands up. On a country road near home there's a narrow bridge; one lane wide so it's a 'give way to oncoming traffic' place. Trouble is, people coming the other way are coming round a bend and in summer, when the greenery at the side of the road is overgrown, the visibility is atrocious. So I moved onto the bridge, then someone came. I should have stopped and reversed back off; they were barrelling towards the bridge at speed. I thought I could floor it and finish crossing in time but we met on his side of the bridge, where the road had narrowed so we could only just get past each other.

The other driver moved out to the middle of the road in front of me so I couldn't proceed forward, then came in next to me at an angle (so I still couldn't move forward as the back of his car was in my way), wound down his window and just screamed at me; you have to give way to traffic coming this way, you'll get someone killed etc. As I said, it was my mistake, I should have reversed back to the give way line so I don't blame him for being angry. He really scared me though. Luckily he didn't get out of his car as I don't know what I would have done. I am seriously relieved he has no way of tracking me down from my reg.

Technically if you couldn't see him after passing the give way line he should have waited. Priority doesn't mean if you appear at speed after someone has started that you cannot slow down and wait. He sounds like an idiot. Fair enough if you'd seen him and drove onto it but I don't think your to blame.

Switzerland is a different system as cars have registration numbers assigned to drivers for the life of the person.

DaveF327

Heliflyguy wrote: »

Hope its only online, can you imagine how often such a tome would need to be updated, the Swiss may be destroying more trees than the argentinian cattle farmers.

Actually, in Switzerland, you own a registration for life and you transfer it from car to car.

c0rneL

but it will be even better if there is free phone number to report bad/dangerous drivers (by the car registration number). That number will be generating a database of "incidents" and once the number of reports will be above a certain number, the unmarked police cars will have a look to see how bad the driver really is.
as for the address and name to be freely available, I think is unacceptable: privacy /safety among others