Road Safety - The Most Important Thing to teach a young male

Having been a young male once I would believe the most important thing we can teach the young males, that we have gained from driving is not to get pissed off when driving.

Things like being cut off, or someone driving at you with high beam on, or someone doing the wrong thing that makes you have to react, a pedestrian stepping out in front of you, probably another is someone passing you and then slowing down and there are heaps of other things that can aggitate you when driving.

As soon as they fire up and get that testosterone running their decisions become errational, the car becomes less important and loosing their own life is probably the last thing on their mind (that invincibilty factor).

So forgiveness, understanding and patience of others is what is required to be taught the most important thing we learn from experience, and should be what is taught first and foremost.

Factors such as speed while relevant do not deserve the attention we get especially with our low speed limits. Innapropriate speeding would be more important such as in side streets, residential areas, shopping areas and school zones or where there may be pedestrians for example.

Getting busted for overtaking someone on a straight stretch of road is ludicruous and is what makes a mokery of the speed debate, the shorter period on the wrong side of the road the better (within reason, 200k would be unreasonable for example).

The presence of police on our roads is far more effective than speed camera's especially where they are hidden and you get the ticket in the mail a couple of weeks later, that has not reduce the speed of anyone.

Computers do not make decisions factoring in the circumstances as a police officer would and you are booked if you are 4k over the limit not matter what the circumstance.

So the focuss must move away from speed and move towards teaching the young how they are effected if they get pissed off. And as I've said before focuss on teaching the risks of driving that aren't taught such as trees, poles, objects that can be hit, poorly designed roads that put their lives at risk each day just getting on them, etc.

Regards
Daniel