Reputation and DUI
Washington state recently passed a bill that requires DUI drivers to have a yellow license plate (news article). It's a bit like the Scarlet Letter. I like to see how effective this becomes. I think the bill has a problem. Some people share cars with other drivers. But DUI is a major problem in the US, and I'm happy to see experimentation by local governments. I love reputation based systems like eBay and wikipedia. It's a good way to build trust and fight spam. I personally wish there was an easy way for people to have a publicly visible reputation that was influenced by anyone. Imagine a world where people could easily point their cell phone at you and give you a plus or a minus vote. If you let someone merge in, the other driver can give you a small star. If you stop and help someone with a flat tire, you might get lots of stars. If you cut people off or cheat on the carpool lane, you get bad karma. That's similar to PageRank. We all look at reviews for movies, restaurants, books, hotels, etc. And we look at the star rating on youtube, netflix, etc. Why not have it for people? There are now web sites that do this for professors and classes at universities. An open reputation based system is so much more effective than the usual student reviews for university faculty. Now imagine we did that in the office for everyone.
Why not have a rating on this very blog post?
posted by Reza Behforooz at 11:02 AM
15 Comments:
I have seen "How's my driving?" motto on almost every car in the Manila (Philippines) but somehow it does not seem to make the situation any better ;-)
Couple of reference photos:
http://brouhaha.blogs.com/brouhaha/2006/03/hows_my_driving.html
http://picasaweb.google.cz/icewesley/ManilaPhilippines20070727To20070801/photo#5093741207949712274
1) The feedback, at least in aggregate, needs to be publicly visible. This is as if reviews on citysearch, google maps, or yelp were only visible to the restaurant.
2) Calling is not easy. The interface is too difficult to use.
that's a very good idea. if it's done in a p2p and privacy aware way. have you seen this facebook app that you compare people and rank them? kinda same idea. of course the whole thing is good as long as it is more for fun that actually finding out the person working next to you is a geek or something ;)
Reza,
I understand your point and I would be happy if things can work this way but still I think that what works well for web spam may not be easily applicable to all aspects of public life.
In this particular case I see few problems (may be cause by the fact that the problem is not defined in detail):
1) What is feedback on driver? If I am going to take a taxi then I care about security and prise but also I do wonder if the driver can get me there on time. Speaking about Manila I wouldn't be surprised if driver-gentleman can't get me anywhere at all.
2) I didn't try to call that interface but I asked my colleagues about it and I was told that nobody does it - it does not work. Driving licence is such an important paper that even blind people have it (did they pass driving school or not there are ways how to obtain it).
Saying this I think that collective intelligence can work well only if there is a benefit for each individual participating on it. If the society can not provide this environment then may be this http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/insurance/car-insurance/article.html?in_article_id=404509&in_page_id=35
could work better.
It's a good idea. Kind of like the Whuffie currency from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Of course, in that book the advantage is that everyone has a built in HUD.
5 stars on this post.
You would shy away from this if you ever had buyers or sellers that you dealt with on eBay who were basically scammers and also popped you for negative feedback. Most people look at the rating, not the reasons or follow-up for a rating. You would just have a bunch of picked-on kids killing themselves because the Internet rated them as a loser.
Hey Reza!
I realized I had been spending too much time on the web when, this summer, I was jogging, I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt from my alma mater, and I tried to hover my cursor over his face to learn what year he graduated. :)
secca, it s one of the freakest story ever heard...you attempted to right click him????
How about this: make men and women adulterers wear scarlet A's.
Anonymous 8:07 AM said "You would just have a bunch of picked-on kids killing themselves because the Internet rated them as a loser."
Or shooting a bunch of people before killing themselves.
This has to be one of the worst, most naive ideas I've ever heard of.
I mean the idea of random people doing the evaluating. I'm unsure about the specific license plate thing. At least there's been a legal process before you have to use the DUI plate.
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