A place for some more radical ideas. For the moment see a perfect world for what I think are some quite reasonable ones, and good ideas for some that don't need legislation

Random tailgate traps

This perhaps belongs in a perfect world... not quite sure...

We already have random breath testing and more recently random drug testing and random radar speed traps and in some states random licence checks. And these are good, particularly IMO the DUI and drug tests. But what would be even better than some of them are random tailgate tests.

And for heavy vehicles, we have severe penalties for driving through tunnels with insufficient overhead clearance.

How about some pace cars to enforce speed limits and tailgating? I have had some terrifying experiences with heavy trucks tailgating me. I try to stay out of their way, really I do, applying the logic of Thomas Gray. 

Do it gradually... Have some cars with big signs on their roofs saying "Pace car.... do not tailgate or overtake". And if anyone does tailgate or overtake, photograph their licence plate and send them an infringement ticket, in exactly the same way that radar traps already do.

Then after a few weeks replace that sign with one that adds "in three weeks I'm invisible" and count down... two weeks, one week, six days, five days... and after "in one day" the sign disappears, but the cameras stay.

The drivers must stay calm and not deliberately bait or taunt other drivers, and have police radios and all the other protections of police officers as prove necessary, but I am hoping that they do not need to be armed. And if they do, then that tells us something about drivers who tailgate, and it's worth arming the officers to get these drivers off the road and possibly out of society before they hurt innocent people.     

More to follow, watch this space