Drivers' moral progress, and why they hate cyclists  On a speed
awareness course, I found that drivers have become anarchic
individualists who see nothing wrong in cheating     • Jump to
comments () Car Speeding Passed Speed Camera 'In a country where
the speed cameras are painted bright yellow anyone who fails to
notice one is guilty at the very least of driving without proper
concentration.' Photograph: Martyn Goddard/Corbis  I spent
Monday morning at a speed awareness course, whither I had been
dispatched for failing to notice a speed camera on the other
side of a dual carriageway. It was an interesting opportunity
for the examination of the emotional mechanisms underlying moral
conduct.  Driving a car is almost certainly the most dangerous
thing that any of us do in our lives. Certainly, it's the most
dangerous to other people. Even the ghastly Mexican drug wars
(60,000 killed since 2006) are not more lethal than the traffic
there, which kills about 17,000 people every year.  So there's
no doubt that regu