RECOGNITION FOR THE GOOD DRIVER SIR.—Mr. Giles Playfair's proposal of
an official 'badge of honour' (September 4), to be attached to the good driver's car, would, like the proposed forma- tion of a 'National Association of Good Drivers' to accompany it, hardly improve the climate for good drivers who 'have no time for such frivolity.
Drivers who do not respect authority are already out of control, fit only to be dispossessed of their licences to drive.
The fact that overmuch consideration is given to mercy for inexcusable motoring offences is, in itself, an infliction keeping the law at a distance, When, by Spartan application of the law, road casualties decrease, as they will, to a remarkable extent, there will then exist a little room, not much, for consideration of a first offence plea for mitigation of the law.--Yours faithfully, *
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