[john70t]

There are many other factors in a safe driving environment:
1). Drivers education standards.
For new drivers here in the US, it is a simple cheap test that can be repeated after a few minutes running around town.
Driving simulators are cheap, and will prepare students for all possibilities such as kids running out between cars/fast blinkerless merges/checking crosstraffic/maintaining distance and speed/etc...

2). Speed limits and road designs.
a). In my city, there is a section of curved downhill freeway where one lane of our entire outgoing north-bound traffic merges uphill into an off-ramp. In rush hour it is a mess. The speed limit used to be 55mph but they actually raised it to 65mph. Dangerous. And people still drive through there at 80mph.
There was a local lawsuit to raise the speed limits on some roads.

b). Light timing is everything. It pisses me off to accellerate normally and go the speed limit only to catch every single red light. They are all timed for 10-15mph over the posted limit.

c). Road signs in many states simply suck. Major freeway interchanges are marked at the split in Florida and simply unmarked in Chicago and Ohio.

Distractions
Automakers are selling all kinds of more crap with vehicles. GPS, Bluetooth, etc. No easy solution to differientiate from a passenger.

Agressive driving
If there is no mechanical/evironmental reason for rear ending another vehicle, then it should be a mandatory 1 year suspension and complete repayment of repairs.
Put the fear and consequenses back into safe driving.

This Orwellian solution is only a band aid.