New road rule (Vic)

Don't know about you but I'll pretend that this law doesn't even exist. Primarily because having to remember all of the new laws in place on the roads is going to distract me constantly from driving safely on the roads.

In fact I don't even know any of the lesser known laws and its going to stay that way as I am driving.

As far as I'm concerned all they can expect of me is that I don't speed and I don't overtake turning vehicles and that I keep my car in good safe condition. This stupid law is just as bad as the 40kph when passing a bus when the lights are flashing. I don't even bother slowing down when going past buses primarily because there is usually a fudge packer behind me on my tail and it would be dangerous for me to slow down for the very short 10 meters of road that I am going past when driving alongside a bus. They should expect me to do the very least and that is cover the brake. and that is exactly what I am going to continue doing.

Obviously if the bus is a few hundred meters away then I have the time to slow down and I do, but most times that is NOT the case and I am coming around a corner or going up or down a hill and I cannot yet see the bus and I almost always in bumper to bumper traffic.

They seriously expect me to drive at 60-80km/h and then slow down to 40 within a hundred meters or less??? when going past a 10 meter long bus? In heavily congested traffic?? do they have any understanding of physics at all??? What if I'm going around a bend at 60-80km/h and the bus is right there and a kid is running out in front of me? I won't have enough time to slow down..

In fact this same situation occured just recently with a bunch of dumbarse council workers in a truck who were closing the left lane on a 2 lane road that was 70km/h. I was coming around the bend just as a bunch of other people and trucks were, they closed the left lane within a hundred meters of a blind corner!!! in a 70 zone!!! and I nearly got *******ed by a truck behind me. He was an inch off my bumper by the time we stopped.

If the government doesn't like it then they can go and bloody well **** themselves with a dildo named voyager. Going where no man has gone before.

Laws like this which abuse the "you cannot claim ignorance of the law" really tick me off the most. So it should to you.

These laws are nothing more than liberal whinger legal chains so they can claim that you broke the law even though you've just accidentally killed someone. They are an attack on the very fabric of our humanity. Our abilities to drive safely on the road are limited by our human capabilities. They should not and cannot keep on forcing these hundreds of laws onto us and expect us to remember them all.

If I'm trying to remember what that obscure law was regarding going past an ambulance or a police car then I'm expending time that I should be spending scanning the road ahead of me and looking to the left for bike riders and looking at the intersection ahead of me for pedestrians, and keeping my car within the lane. and checking my mirrors and ensuring that I'm not speeding. I don't have the TIME for this ****.