But please don’t wait until you see throngs of children before you slow down. We must jack up our level of vigilance and lower our speed everywhere children might be trick-or-treating.
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Most drivers are unaware of the danger of “inattention blindness”, a term to describe a phenomenon that occurs when the brain is engaged in something else besides driving and your brain fails to process some of the available visual information.
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Awareness that chatting with a passenger is distracting will hopefully lead both drivers and passengers to be cautious about becoming wrapped up in a discussion, and to compensate by each of them paying extra attention to the roadway while choosing
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They shouldn’t be necessary because other laws require us to slow to a safe speed when children are likely to be around.
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To stop rolling the road safety dice, they must become second nature “every time” behaviours.
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Most of the time we can get away following traffic signs and signals and what we see out of our windshield and mirrors. The more we get away with it, the less value we see in doing anything more.
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I understand from news reports that e-scooter use is currently restricted to designated pathways in Kelowna. But that’s not what I’m seeing.
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As fun as they might be, I don’t see the kinds of transportation and environmental benefits flowing from e-scooters like I do from their larger and safer cousin, the e-bike.
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In a driving society where everyone speeds, a small number of random speed traps will do next to nothing to change driving behaviour.
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If we’re worried about fleecing motorists, this go-around is dressing up a pig in a dress, pearls and high heels.
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