More PE teachers.
We’ll have an entire industry of PE teachers, rostered nationally to ensure PE is taught, and genitala are inspected.
RecallMadness
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In NZ we can transfer fines to other people, why not demerits? Other countries handle it fine.
Don’t want demerits for when you’re not driving? Don’t let dickheads drive your car.
I’m not 100% caught up on NZ driving penalties.
But my understanding is you can only get demerits in person, from another person, at the time, on the side of the road.
This seems like a flaw. I can cope with a low-tier speeding fine easily. $30? Shit, that’s “don’t buy a coffee that month” territory. I can just not do that all year, if I get caught speeding by a camera every month it’s not great but it’s handleable.
Demerits? I’m not fucking with that shit. I can’t offset them with lifestyle changes. Too many of them and I’m up shits creek.
But you’re not getting demerits from fixed cameras or camera vans. Ie, all the speed cameras on motorways. You’ve got to be speeding enough to get pulled over. And if you do, it’s still up to the officers discretion.
Without the mandatory hours, why even have a restricted class?
What’s the difference between our law abiding citizen ‘NightShiftNate’ getting his restricted, waiting 12 months with no driving (because he only needs to drive at night), then applying for his full.
Or NightShiftNate just getting his full immediately after getting his restricted?
I’d argue the latter is better, as it gets him on the road straight after his training is fresh in his mind, and confidence is up.
This isn’t foolproof.
The same car might be manufactured in multiple factories for multiple markets, to multiple levels of certification.
Your “new car” in one country, could be the previous years European model if the euro regs have changed.
This is the reason I haven’t given it a chance.
Not that I’m unwilling, but with no common hardware, I’m reluctant to go out and buy something.
I can go buy a pinephone for postmarket, but won’t work for sailfish. I can get an Xperia for sailfish, but I’m out of luck for postmarket.
Not to mention, I’m reluctant to drop a chunk of cash on aged hardware, whose successor doesn’t look to be as well supported.
VW can’t use the factories they have.
Ironically, “running the country like a business”.
Have policy outline an objective, Set KPIs, thresholds, etc. If the policy fails to meet them it gets automatically canned. Otherwise it’s safe.
Want to lower road deaths, that is your policy “lower road deaths by 2030 by 10%”. (Largely) A goal everyone can get behind.
But you’ve got to specify how you measure it, allow all parties to add their own metrics like “average journey time must not increase by 5%” or “maintain 99% licensing in rural communities”.
How you achieve the policy is (mostly) irrelevant. Want to do it by lowering speed? Fine. But that might increase journey time significantly. You could improve driver training, but that might impact rural communities.
Subsequent governments could cancel it, but only if it’s failing its KPIs, or if their new policy is “don’t lower road deaths” or “make cars go faster”
The year is ~~2050~~ 2026. The suburban streets, once a place where kids could be seen playing are now devoid of life. The shouts and laughter of children gone.
They have been replaced by roving bands of cyber trucks, carrying mail and parcels for the residents. Honking outside homes to goad the occupants to collect their mail.
But they do not. For they know if they leave their homes, they may be identified as tarmac and run down by the self driving AI.
This is the new world order. This is DOGE.
In the UK, if a the registered owner is unable to name the driver, or unable to provide a satisfactory reason why they can’t, it’s a £1000 (~NZ$2000) fine.
I’m pretty sure some people might use company owned vehicles to get out of demerits, but it’s expensive.