The road toll is our fault

exactly the same as the ad in NSW with they AU ute "speeding" with loud
dangerous rock music playing, who overtakes a fucking semi on a blind,
lefthanded, double white lines corner and then notices a car coming towards
him, hooks it into the righthand barrier, and gets tboned.

no fatalities are apparent.

but the message? "SLOW DOWN"

how about you dont drive dangerously to start with fuckwits. had he been
speeding, but slowed down to match the semis speed until there was
appropriate overtaking space or lanes, and then sped back up to his
dangerous speed of 120 or whatever they were panicking about, when the road
conditions suited it, would he have crashed? the likelyhood is many many
times less than performing the insane maneovres that were presented.

its sums up exactly what is wrong with our driver
education/testing/enforcement systems.

 

isnt that apparent? the man is a walking yoghurt.

 

Isn't it one, two, three, aaaaahhhhhhhh?

Theo

 

Nothing to do with being homicidal, but you know that, you've just run
out of reasoned arguments on a topic you know nothing about. People are
more likely to remember the last thing they saw than the thing before
that, or the thing before that... If the appearance of a rider is
always fresh in the minds of the other road users around them, they will
be more noticed. Watch motorbike cops in traffic. They will almost
never just sit in traffic. They are trained to constantly move at a
speed just faster than traffic speed... and everyone sees police bikes.

Nev..

 

I think that's way overstating the amount of culture he has.

JL

 

Now THAT would be doing something useful about the crash rate!

 

So the only way you can argue is to make up stupid absurdist rubbish and

*crowd groans*

 

Wisdom.

 

Yeah; I was gonna' say "I'm on the couch with a beer and watching TV before
I ever get into double-digits!"

 

True; it's a mechanical disorder.

 

Maan; I have no idea what that means but **** it's a good insult!!

 

Yup - and traffic lights manage things relatively effectively.
BUT.
Seem the panel and paint industry bitched about that matter to the
point where roundie-roundies were introduced to give the industry a
fair go.
It worked.

As for the traffic lights, they've long since outlived their original
purpose - which was efficient and safe movement of traffic.
Now they're set up as traffic calming devices, deliberately slowing
traffic and impeding its flow.
I guess the piss in the pockets for that was oil coloured, or maybe
even rancid fat flavoured in the event traffic is stopped deliberately
near fast food outlets.
Hell, it might even be the <gasp> vehicle manufacturers that did the
multicoloured chrome plated plastic infused pissing. You know, to get
that all important wear-rate up. Sort of a quid-pro-quo for forcing
the industry into providing warranties where vehicles mal-treated have
to out-last the warranty period and so will last for a disgustingly
and unprofitably long time if well treated...

Give the fuckers an inch....

 

Okay then I conceed doing 60kph through 30kph traffic is very safe


People are

Near everyone see's police whether they are moving or not.

 

Since we are making BS up, then the longer you ride a bike, the more chance
you have of catching chicken pox

 

No but it should be done carefully I suspect.

No but it should be done carefully I suspect

 

I know other people don't look twice, you can choose to disagree at your own
risk, not mine.

I agree.

Always look over my shoulder, even though this was classed as dangerous at
one stage and a mate got threatened with failure for doing so by his driving
instructor.

 

No way; we can't trust them to be careful. That's what you're saying isn't
it?
We need HARD FAST RULES to stop the danger!

 

49 is old now?

And all young people know that it's the old

Cause they crash slower ?

 

They do have a shortage of staff but there are still some staff there, if
people want to risk finding out first hand with the wrong end of the
pineapple by driving 20kph faster, their business I suppose.
This is the 21's century, what could a little car prang do, people don't die
in hospital anymore...................

 

You were on the couch with a beer and watching TV when you started!

-----sharks