Originally Posted by
sarhog
Do you actually believe that a periodic test would have prevented this?
Note the clever sophistry here. A loaded question is being used to suggest that a specific incident already in the past could not be prevented by a wide-sweeping measure.
We all know 100% of crashes can't be eliminated. What we can say is a population with higher average proficiency would be a lot less likely to causes these kinds of incidents. The alternative is stay the course and ticket the drivers who
happen to get caught after the fact. However, it's also known that an ounce of prevention is worth far more than a pound of cure.