superplum wrote:jont- wrote: No, but I do think anyone involved in a collision should be required to take further training. Of course the practical upshot of that would probably be a reduction in the number of accidents reported
???? So if someone gets "rear-ended" for whatever reason, they need further training (I know that's extreme)? IMO that's nonsense. No amount of training gives competency. Education is another example - no amount of qualifications (degrees etc) gives competence, only a level of education.
there will be /some/ situations where you could genuinely do nothing to avoid a shunt. However I suspect there will also be quite a lot of situations where with better observation/situational awareness, you might have been able to avoid things, even if not your fault.
Now maybe the problem there is the car who would have caused the accident doesn't learn anything, because from their perspective nothing bad happened.
I'm still bemused by this idea that training is some sort of punishment. Maybe that societal attitude is a small indicator of why education in this country is in such a bad state.