Obviously, articles like that twaddle do absolutely nothing to open any lines of understanding, or even communication, between the two sides of this debate. I'm not sure that anything really will -- when an uninformed opinion forms in a less than capable mind, it solidifies quickly into a bedrock belief, and no one will convince them otherwise under any conditions. And, like Carlin said, you've seen how foolish the average person is -- half the population is worse than THAT!

Past a certain calendar age, the great majority of people cannot, and WILL NOT, be 'educated' anywhere but in a classroom. And even though Remedial Driving is a classroom thing, NOBODY believes they deserve to be there, so they will out-of-hand reject whatever comes their way from it.