Same objections as jont to 1 and 2.
On 3, I quite like the idea of graduated driving licences, but I'd want to see their proposals for what privileges are available at each level. I get the impression that they would want the top level to have less freedom than we currently have, which I would not support.
4: I don't know enough about alcohol and physiology to have an opinion on whether 20mg is a sensible level, but I would regard random breath testing (which I take to mean the state having the power to breathalyse me without needing reasonable grounds to suspect me of drink-driving) as draconian.
5: If drugalyser technology is reliable enough to be used evidentially then I'd support it's use. I wouldn't support random drug testing any more than I'd support random breath testing though (I note that point 5 doesn't suggest random drug testing). An offence of driving on illegal drugs without having to prove impairment doesn't make sense to me (although if the drugalyser result proved illegal drugs had been taken then that could, of course, be used to support a prosecution for an existing offence related to taking the illegal drugs in the first place).
6. My own subjective experience concurs with that research. If it's the conversation that's the distraction, rather than the taking a hand off the controls, that sounds to me like it could just as well be used as an argument for reversing the ban on using hand-held mobile phones.
7. I'd like to see traffic policing given a much higher priority. That's because I'd like to see a big shift away from speed limit policing and towards policing careless and dangerous driving. I don't get the impression Brake would like to see the same shift.
8. Happy with this - as long as there's evidence that a problem exists and this would solve it. I've certainly no interest in doing it just to bring us in line with an EU directive
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9. I don't know what the implications of this would be. Is it a minor tweak to existing regulation that business currently lives with, or is it a fundamental shift in where the boundary of responsibility lies between employer and employee when someone is driving for work?
10. There's more than a hint of emotion coming through there. It reads like the author is too close to the issue to be able to think dispassionately.
11. I have a big problem with this one, but only because I have a big problem with the existence of the 'causing death by' offences anyway.