22/05/2026
Sorry if you haven’t picked upon my disbelief that in today’s communities and society that you can call people “dumb.”
But here we are, if I said it I’d be shot down in flames, and be branded all sorts of names and fall under so many banners it’s not funny.
Yet other not for profit charities, and government agencies can do as they please and we sit on our hands and say and do nothing about it.
People are not “dumb” on the roads, they make some questionable decisions, some are assisted with substances, medications, illness or other means.
I see the issue more as an accident. Did you mean to loose control of your car and hit the tree, power pole, other car? Usually the answer is no, I was trying to have some fun.
But fun like everything in life, life has consequences, so maybe we should be asking the question of did you know this could have happened when you did this?
If anyone answers no to this, then maybe they shouldn’t be on the roads to start with. I mean hey, I don’t go fire a gun, loaded or not at something, unless I do training, have licences to cover the exercise my level of competencies.
Just like a gun, they can severely injure someone or worse, a car can too. You hear gun advocates say it’s not the gun that did that, just like in our world, it wasn’t the car that did that.
Maybe in years to come when autonomous vehicles really become a thing it might change, but then we will change the question as to who is responsible because someone would have programmed the car to do that.
At the end of the day, we have had cars for many many years, we have investigated and improved safety with road laws and build requirements. When there’s an accident then it is also investigated and what has caused the accident, and it maybe more than one factor.
But let’s control the factor we can control, to some degree no that’s human behaviour. We cannot call people names, or categorise them and so this or that, but yet we can call them “dum drivers” when they have an accident.
Education is key here, but also community assistance in calling out and helping, educating, or directing those people to make better decisions before they become “dumb drivers.”
It’s just my thoughts, others may think differently, but TV advertising might hit a target for a short term, it’s time we start looking for better alternatives to make our roads safer.
