Abstract
From the review of current principles of motor vehicle traffic law and enforcement the author concludes that (1) the present measures for the enforcement of traffic law would appear only able to exist as a legal function on account of the low level of actual enforcement, (2) it has not been convincingly demonstrated in the extant research literature that enforcement of the traffic laws has any significant effect upon accidents occurring in the motor vehicle traffic system, and (3) a cursory study of the purpose of traffic law would suggest possible technical innovations in intervehicle communication as a substitute for the apparently inflexible tendency to stronger enforcement.