Anonymous
07/21/2025 18:05
Subject: Re:Required driver refresher training
Doesn’t happen because nobody wants this.
Anonymous
07/21/2025 18:05
Subject: Required driver refresher training
Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't help anything.
Good drivers are good drivers regardless. Bad drivers cannot be helped.
Same as violent and non-violent people. Laws don't matter to either one.
Bingo. 100% correct.
The biggest problem drivers in my observations are four groups:
Aggressive drivers
Uncourteous drivers
Oblivious drivers
Infrequent drivers
All these things have zero to do with age, gender, race or SES.
Anonymous
07/21/2025 17:56
Subject: Required driver refresher training
Wouldn't help anything.
Good drivers are good drivers regardless. Bad drivers cannot be helped.
Same as violent and non-violent people. Laws don't matter to either one.
Good drivers are good drivers regardless. Bad drivers cannot be helped.
Same as violent and non-violent people. Laws don't matter to either one.
Anonymous
07/21/2025 16:52
Subject: Required driver refresher training
A lot of that is accomplished through signage and PSAs. There’s a major traffic circle near our summer house in New Jersey which was relatively new 12 years ago when we started spending time there. People really didn’t seem to understand that you had to yield to the drivers who were already in the circle - it was a mess. I grew up in DC surrounded by circles so I get it but many people don’t until they actually spell it out for you. It’s a lot better now.
Anonymous
07/21/2025 11:55
Subject: Required driver refresher training
It seems to me that there are a lot of common themes i see on the road with drivers that are frustrating (but correctable) to me and nothing seems to be done about it.
First example there is clearly a push for the zipper merge by the way new signage is changing but most drivers dont seem to understand it.
Another is the increased usage of traffic circles, and people seem to be unable to use them correctly without constant accidents, especially the ones with two lanes.
And finally I constantly see drivers going full speed through intersections when the stoplights have a power outage rather than treat them as a four-way stop (MD driver here, dont know other states laws on that).
The question is, has it ever been proposed to have mandatory driver refresher training modules periodically to help keep drivers educated on new laws or trends they want to encourage, or to fix problem areas where drivers tend to make a lot of errors? These could be online and also available at MVA sites. Would this help make a difference when lack of understanding is the general problem rather than people who just simply dont care about road safety? Seems like it would be beneficial, and I imagine there is a reason its not happening, like lack of funding?
First example there is clearly a push for the zipper merge by the way new signage is changing but most drivers dont seem to understand it.
Another is the increased usage of traffic circles, and people seem to be unable to use them correctly without constant accidents, especially the ones with two lanes.
And finally I constantly see drivers going full speed through intersections when the stoplights have a power outage rather than treat them as a four-way stop (MD driver here, dont know other states laws on that).
The question is, has it ever been proposed to have mandatory driver refresher training modules periodically to help keep drivers educated on new laws or trends they want to encourage, or to fix problem areas where drivers tend to make a lot of errors? These could be online and also available at MVA sites. Would this help make a difference when lack of understanding is the general problem rather than people who just simply dont care about road safety? Seems like it would be beneficial, and I imagine there is a reason its not happening, like lack of funding?