The offences of CDDD and CDCD came in in the 1950's or 1960's to 'soften the stigma for all those drivers facing manslaughter charges, and to possibly ease the burden on courts?
I'd like to see killing people with cars treated in exactly the same way as killing people with any other machinery or objects - make all uniformly manslaughter unless the case can clearly be proved as murder (ie action with intent to kill)
Not sure if Roman Law applying in Scotland, and several Traffic Laws separately defined, and applied for Scotland, woul mean that the Scottish Parliament can make such changes in Scotland
It would be great if we could press change forwards through MSP's and Scottish Laws
Some detail may need UK wide delivery
One which might work could be to use Section 97 of Roads Scotland Act 1984 to argue that cycle deliveries (mainly fast food riders using illegal electric mopeds) and the sub 3.5 Ton vans used for supermarket deliveries, plus online orders, are classed as 'street trading' (commercial use of public roads) and Just Eat, Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Amazon, Yodel, Zedify, Delivery Mates, Evri etc all need to have a licence and keep records of vehicles and drivers operating for them, directly or as contractors
Class B licences might move toward the same system as Class C,D,E licences where the divers have a 'tacho card' that is unique to the driver, and can limit the ability to drive a vehicle, as well as recording hours driven & speeds etc. Some Class D drivers (National Express contractors) have to do a breath test (Alco-Lock) before they can restart a coach to drive after a stop (this after a couple of notorious incidents with drivers of overnight services pulled over with passengers on board and over alcohol limit)
For most modern cars with electronic vehicle management systems the retro enabling of speed controls, and driver i/d required to drive is possible, if the will is there (or law demands it...)
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