Drop in the ocean

The AA calls for graduated driving licences for young drivers with a 6 month moratorium on carrying passengers their own age. It’s a gesture in the right direction but a drop in the ocean. We need wholesale reform of the rules of the road and the driving test. The system should be based on equality for all road-users, with the vulnerable more equal than others. Drivers should learn the dangers of speed and the beauty of tolerance. As a basis for road-user interaction, sociable self-control would avoid the “need” for vexatious regulation and prompt safe, empathic, environmentally-friendly driving.