Thai Drivers Poll

[baldrick]

and interesting read - make the driving test harder so less unskilled people on the road and thus less traffic

Drive around your town or metropolitan area on any day, keeping in mind that driving a motor vehicle is the most complicated mind-body action most people perform, and observe the following practices: failing to signal changes of direction regularly or at all, especially turning right; failing to make a right turn if an approaching vehicle is in the same block; turning left from two lanes wide or so slowly as to impede following traffic; changing lanes with insufficient warning or none at all; and stopping at roundabouts when it is safe to proceed (demonstrating ignorance of their purpose to keep traffic moving, or lack of confidence in interweaving with other vehicles).
Less dangerous, but still annoying to other road users, are drivers who show absolutely no awareness of following traffic, who have no feel for the spatial limits of the car they are driving, and who cannot park near the kerb or in a single car space.

Why Australia's speed fixation won't lower the road toll - Ockham's Razor - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[beachers78]

I was at the Mom and pops store the other day and a school bus pulled in from the local high school, the kids bailed out and got drinks etc and the driver jumped out for 2 shots of Lao Khao, I didn't hear of an accident but there is one waiting to happen, the worst part it will be the kids hurt not the idiot driver.

The solution is to shackle these drivers into their cabs, Roman ship slave-galley stylee.

Knowing they can't flee the scene of their own carnage, or incinerate within their vehicles might instill a bit of responsibility.

My suggestion for drivers guilty of a third offense, remove the seatbelts and put a spike on the steering wheel. They'll slow down.