观点类大作文，交通类话题
Some people think that the only way to improve safety of our roads is to give much stricter punishments on driving offenses. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
题目来源：2020年11月14日亚太雅思大作文（重复18年2月3日的亚太考题）
题目大意
一些人认为提高道路安全的唯一办法是对道路违规施加更为严厉的惩罚。你同意还是不同意？
思路解析
11月14日亚太考了一道交通类的题目，重复了18年2月的旧题。这个话题不太考，但因为大陆今年都没考过，所以考鸭可以留意下。
这道题目本身不难写，因为题目中用了“only”这个词，那你用反对的角度，针对这个词进行反驳，论证为什么这不是“提高道路安全”唯一的办法即可。文章结构上，可以通过让步段来先认可“施加更严厉的惩罚”的好处，再主体段进行反驳和论证。
我们这里一起来梳理下，“对道路违规施加更严厉的惩罚”有什么好处，以及还有哪些办法可以提高道路安全。
对违规行为施加更严厉的惩罚，让当事人（不管是驾驶员还是行人）明白违规成本会超过他能承受的范围时候，惩罚也就起到了震慑作用，进而可以降低违规行为。这里大家能想到的熟悉的例子就是酒驾的查处，很多人不再冒风险酒后开车的主要原因，就是因为国内对于酒驾的严查和重罚（包括暂扣或吊销驾驶证，以及可能追究刑事责任）。
那么，道路安全的提升还能通过哪些途径呢？
道路安全问题本身其实会由三方面原因引起，一是自然因素，二是道路设计因素，三是人为因素。
自然因素主要的就是恶劣天气，有开车经验的同学一定有感受，遇到暴风雨、降雪或者大雾天，都是比较危险的。那要解决这个问题，可以通过提高道路标准（防滑措施或者加装探照灯），或者及时派人及时应对。（比如铲雪或者大雾天气）
道路设计的不合理也可能会提高交通事故的风险。这个点由于写起来需要专业知识（比如变速车道的作用和T字路口的风险），不建议大家论证，欢迎相关专业的同学挑战。
人为因素方面，除了加大处罚外，还可以通过加装摄像头和增加巡逻人员两个方式去发现更多违规的人。（如果说加大处罚是深度，那么发现更多违规行为就是广度）
如果当事人发现做任何违规行为都会被发现并处罚后，也就会减少相应行为。而加装摄像头和增加巡逻人员都可以提高监控力度，让违规行为能及时被发现并加以处罚，进而起到震慑作用。
提纲
范文示例
It is irrefutable that careless driving and violation of traffic rules certainly result in a large number of accidents and stricter punishments are necessary to reduce them. However, I believe that there are also certain other measures that have equal or more effectiveness in ensuring road safety.
It is undeniable that stricter punishments can be somewhat effective to improve road safety. As we all know, motoring offence is crime. In this case, proposing tough policies about both non-custodial sentence and prison sentence is necessary because they can act as a deterrent. In fact, many countries in the world implemented the confiscation of the driving licenses to people not adhering to the traffic law. In the UK, for example, people can take a prison sentence for several years because of endangering innocent live. These policies absolutely succeed in a certain aspect. However, this does not mean that stricter punishment is the only way to tackle this problem. After all, there are certain accidents that occur not because of traffic violations but the poor road and climate conditions. Therefore, it should be noted that drivers alone cannot be blamed for such mishaps and other measures are also needed.
A more effective strategy by the government would be to straighten accident prone curves and widen narrow roads. Larger number of road signs and proper traffic signals can also be effective in reducing accidents on roads. Moreover, speed cameras can be installed to remind drivers not to commit any mistake or break the rules. Recently, the way is applied in many areas and already brings positive results as a decreasing of the number of people going beyond standard speed. Finally, the police should patrol regularly around roads of local by vehicle inspections, which makes sure that they can do something on time as a sudden accident.
In conclusion, there is not only way that brings stricter punishments to change road safety. we should flexibly use proper traffic measures on driving offenses to get the best results.
