A System to File Complaints Against Drivers

We should have a system that would allow you to report a driver’s actions, based on license plate number. For normal citizens, it would be a submit-only operation, so you wouldn’t be able to see reports by other citizens (this is of course a privacy measure, and to limit malicious use and intent). But it would certainly be used as a factor in auto insurance rates, by law-enforcement, and perhaps even a review of who should actually be allowed to drive.

Of course a single infraction, or even multiple wouldn’t change anything, but it would make it easier to see if certain drivers are continually causing problems and provide a way to to something about the worst ones. Perhaps there is a threshold above an average number of infractions that would trigger some level of consequence.

It’s one of those systems that could be abused, and I’m sure a large portion of the population would be against it just because of the “big-brotherness” of it. But I think the idea is sound and quite necessary, we would just have to set the rules correctly to keep it from being abused, which doesn’t seem like an impossible task.