Idiot Driver Reporting Machine (gun)

There’s a website where you can name and shame bad drivers. If you see an idiot at the wheel you can note their registration number and add it to the ‘Better Driving Please’ database. The police won’t actually act on these reports, and that nutter at the wheel probably won’t realise he’s been added… Um, what was the point of that website again?

My invention-of-the-day for today is a computer-ish device to be carried in every car, and used to report bad drivers. Of course you couldn’t type in the bad driver’s registration number if you were driving, so the device would need to be pointed at the offending driver in order to record their number. I think it could be shaped like a gun.

If a bad driver has had enough reports from other road users then he should get a fine, if he has many reports then the police should investigate and take further action. I based this peer report system on the inapproriate chat policy of the online poker site where I work. This system works very well, there are no ‘chat police’ monitoring the tables as such, but if other player’s report a user for bad chat the player will be warned, and if there are numerous reports they’ll be banned from chatting at the tables.

I think the Idiot Driver Reporting Machine would work as a deterrant, as well as an easy way to catch  dangerous drivers on the roads.

Of course the Idiot Driver Reporting Machines would cost a lot of money to install in every car, but as I’m sure they’d make roads safer I’d say it would be worth the cost. I doubt they’d cost any more than your average baby car seat which are compulsory for anyone driving a child.  Of course car owners already pay plenty for road tax, MOT’s and child car seats, at least with this invention they’d get the satisfaction of pointing at any driver who pissed them off and proclaiming the fateful word, ‘Revoked!’