[richrichardsson]

You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.

[JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

No need to have children. It’s the same crap in France and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I’m driving myself. These morons don’t care about kids but they don’t care about other drivers either.

I’m a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy IMHO.

[necovek]

I think that's simplifying things too much: as a driver, there are also pedestrians who will jump out into a street without so much as looking where there is no crosswalk; there are also drivers who will drive 20km/h in a 50km/h zone, and you have no idea what's going on except that you are likely to hit 5 red traffic lights which are designed to be a "green wave" and make a 30 second drive through one street into a 5 minute one, and resulting in more gas usage and more pollution.

And yes, this type of driving will produce annoyed drivers that "drive crazy", and I don't accept that this is just their fault.

Mostly, these same drivers doing 20km/h will not even stop for pedestrians on a crosswalk — slowness does not equal attention and safe driving!

Traffic, in essence, is a collaborative effort that requires all participants to be empathetical to other participants — as such, we need to be most mindful of the "weakest" participants like pedestrians (especially kids, who can also be very inattentive), cyclists, motorcycles but also of other car drivers — if we care about each others' experience, we'll reduce the risk for everyone involved, while getting everyone where they want to go in a timely and efficient manner — and that is the goal!

[01jonny01]

Yes it requires collective empathy. There was a time when we never required the nanny state to constantly watch over us. A sign of a high functioning, free and unified society is that you shouldn't need be forced by the hand of the law to conform to the lowest common denominator.