Increase in road deaths - questions need to be asked

The issue wont be solved without two things.

Number 1 - Enforcement - there needs to be more traffic garda driving up and down the roads of the country 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Every single little infraction needs to be fined / penalty points etc.

Couple of examples I see every single day on a journey from Maynooth to Dunboyne. Over taking on solid whites, on bends , on a hill - every single day both directions. 3 roundabouts on the Dunboyne bypass - Left lane is for going left and straight, right lane for right - its not a two lane road yet every idiot thinks they can skip the traffic by getting into the right lane and then going straight veering into traffic already on the roundabout going straight - I honestly dont know how someone hasnt been killed on that road yet with the overtaking on it.

Maynooth is ridiculous every evening - not one driver will leave a yellow box empty for traffic taking right turns. Not one - theres 7 sets of lights from the N4 to Maynooth village and its the same every evening - every yellow box blocked. Last night a Garda car stopped in the yellow box and blocked it for 3 light changes - How do people learn to drive properly when the very people that are supposed to enforce the laws are breaking them??

Number 2 - Theres a sense of self entitlement that has crept into Irish society and not just about driving where we have become a very rude , ignorant country. The amount of people that think they are more entitled to get where they are going without other road users consideration is crazy. Theres one lad out here that absolutely doesnt give 2 **** about the other drivers. I had footage of him driving on teh opposite side of the road and if you know Maynooth there are traffic islands basically the whole length of the main road - this idiot goes around these islands to skip the traffic . And hes not a boy racer type - hes a business man in a suit. Just a self entitled asshole.

Dash cam footage should be allowed to convict someone without having to go to a Garda station and make a statement - there should be a garda website that allows you to upload footage, reviewed by a garda and then a decision made to prosecute etc. More red light cameras, yellow box cameras etc. We have the technology that should make up the shortfall in Garda numbers and it should be used to convict and get the idiots off the road.

But surely in this day and age dash cam footage could be viewed by a Garda member, a decision made as to whether an offence has taken place and then the appropriate action taken and the vehicle owner contacted. If the constitution needs to change to allow that then so be it.

We have the means to automate a lot of these low level infractions freeing up the Garda to deal with the drivers doing 200 kmph on motorways.

As for phone use - would it not be easy for car manufacturers to put a mobile phone signal blocker or build a faraday cage into the structure in their cars from say 2030? If you want to use the phone there would be a compartment in say the boot that allows the phone to access the mobile network and bluetooth to the radio.

Theres ways around everything if they used their heads- Vision Zero is not an achievable goal unless there are drastic changes in enforcement and peoples attitudes and I for one cant see it happening with these changes taking place.

I honestly dont know as Im not an electronics engineer but Im sure someone with a background in electronics could come up with a solution.