You know you can buy scrapers on poles, too… I used to drive a minivan, and i purchased a special tool to remove snow from its roof. I think it cost me $20, and lasted the life of the van.
Put me down as a third in favor of the Idaho Stop.
I’ve sometimes wondered whether there could be an ‘expert’ class of driving license. In Ontario, we have the various learner levels leading to the standard Class G license for regular cars.
But what if there was a… let’s call it a Class G+ license? To get it you’d have to demonstrate greater skill and medical fitness (vision, reflexes, etc). I’m thinking somewhere between ‘racing school’ and ‘private pilot’ levels of rigour. A Class G+ license would grant you greater privileges, higher speed limits being the most obvious.
But it would come with greater responsibilities. A Class G+ driver would be responsible for everything they were involved in above and beyond standard driving rules when on the public roads, even if it strictly speaking wasn’t ‘their fault’.
Class G+ would also imply higher insurance rates. Possibly certain high-performance cars could only be driven on public roads by G+ drivers.
If you go through a green light even though the emergency vehicle is coming with light, sirens, etc, then you will be tied down in the intersection and the next firetruck/ambulance gets to run right over you. They can even make it a contest, see how close they can get you to their wheels.
Three changes:
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For highway (divided highways only), instead of getting speeding tickets, you can, before your road trip, go to a police station and buy a book of speeding tickets.
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If you cause a traffic accident, you are responsible for paying for the post-accident clean-up. Years ago, I saw on a slightly icy road (and it was a hill as well), several cars successfully negotiate the road and associated intersection, until one car approached at an obviously too high speed. It went off the road into the ditch, and its stupid front bumper lay there, in the grassy ditch, for over a year.
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Because I spend a lot of time on a bicycle, if someone deliberately breaks glass on a road, they must clean it up by licking it up with their hands tied behind their backs.
Those people who are being forced to bunch up closely behind another car should consider getting one of those new-fangled cars that lets the driver control the speed.
Some people seem to have a motto “Better an accident than I should turn on my headlamps.”
And the daytime running lamps on some cars still don’t help people behind you. (As I learned when driving one foggy morning - and the grey car ahead of me was barely visible.) So my law would be that the “running lamps” must be lit whenever the car’s transmission is in gear.
And don’t get me started on those new very-bright white LED strips that are used in strange configurations - stylists don’t seem to figure out what to do with them.
Mandatory speed limits on highways. Enforced by thousands of pace cars (electric, and controlled by the Central Computer) patrolling the highways. Any vehicle going faster than a pace car is in violation.
That is a limited implementation because I only have one year; but eventually every vehicle will be driven by the Central Computer and linked to every other vehicle, turning the highways into train services where cars act as individual pods. That includes motorcycles and large freight trucks. No accidents, no traffic jams, and we can probably have single-lane highways in most places. If you’re late for an appointment, you can never say that you didn’t know how much time the travel would take, and you can never blame traffic.
If a vehicle on the highway does not conform, do we have new laws to punish the owner and driver? Or do we use a bazooka for a more Dredd-like solution? I need to think about that.
No quarrel with this from me, but are there many (any?) people who deliberately break glass on a road?
Look, please don’t bugger this up with relevant fact-based data 
I’ve had to walk my dogs around broken booze bottles on the sidewalks and streets more times than I can count. I don’t know how they would have gotten there if someone hadn’t deliberately thrown their bottle out the window of their car. Teenagers I’m assuming.
I live in an area that is allegedly populated by prosperous and well educated folks. And I’ve personally experienced not just glass on the road from broken beer and liquor bottles, but actually had a beer bottle thrown at me while I was cycling. She missed.
Glass on the road or sidewalk is even more terrifying when you are walking a dog.
One place I lived several years ago had a stupid rash of bus shelter vandalisms. So there was lots of broken glass at that time. And I can definitely see how broken glass would be a really bad thing for a dog.
People are pigs.
I’d like to see some sort of penalty for “waving” - i.e., giving an “oh please, go right ahead!” gesture to a pedestrian who’s waiting to cross in front of your car when you have the right of way.
Yup. It may be useful in a grid lock kind of situation, but no way for everyday driving. You can’t see what I can see, you have the right of way, take it.
I many cases, I think these people are just too timid to do what they should.
I see a number of liquor bottle on the roadside. For some reason, the square Patron bottles seem particularly popular for drinking while driving. Maybe they’re less likely to break and remain more easily identifiable on the shoulder.
I have seen it happen when the recycling truck picks up trash. I also say and reported a glass recycling truck that was leaking broken glass all down the highway. It was a heckuva beat up garbage truck. I don’t how it hadn’t been pulled from the road before.
I’m happy to use the speed control feature of my car to achieve the speed I want to drive. I’m less pleased about using my speed control feature to maintain the speed chosen by others for their convenience sleepy laziness.
Here’s a modest counter-proposal:
Perhaps instead the obstacles in at least the left lane could be persuaded to use the “steering” feature of their own new-fangled vehicles to get their obstructive slow-moving bulk out of the leftmost lane(s) and into the rightmost lane(s) as required by current real-world law.
Within the OP’s whimsical world of made-up laws, I’d have no problem with a new law granting blanket permission to bazooka or bulldoze such sloths into the (right) shoulder where they belong.
I stand corrected. I never thought of that!
Fine people that take a left hand turn and don’t make the turn wide enough so that they practically hit you as you’re approaching the stop sign in the other lane.