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Are these people serious? It's too early for April Fools Day.
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Someone needs to start a riot.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Country road, pull out to overtake a b-double, accelerate, hit LIMITER....... Oh crap, we're screwed......
OK idea in really dense city areas (which seems to be the focus of the article) but simply not a good idea once you're out of the heavily populated regions. It really should only be looked at as a way for someone with no points to maintain a licence for work purposes or the like - similar to how an alcohol interlock works. If you can't be responsible for your own driving, then you either shouldn't be driving, or you can succumb to this nanny-state rubbish. You don't always have the option to brake to avoid an accident. I can count on more than 1 hand the times I've accelerated (over the limit - as I'd already be travelling at the limit) to avoid a hazard - be it a roo coming from the side, or a clown who pulls out from a side street, when you're 25m off him - leaving you with 2 options - hit him on the RH rear 1/4 on an angle, or take evasive action down the left (or right) and get back into the lane before the parked car (or oncoming traffic). |
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Time to ditch fuel injection and all the computer controlled rubbish.
Carby here we come!!!
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I reckon it's the additional speed cameras our hopeless government has put up that have caused the increase in deaths. Don't for one second think that Baird and co. don't want you to speed!
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Cranky old bastard
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I would not have a problem with a GPS device alerting the driver that they are over the limit for that particular zone. In fact it could be a good thing.
But like Commodoernut, when I overtake, the less amount of time I spend on the other side of the road the better. So it gets a bootfull. To say I should not do this and should stay behind someone who does below the limit then speeds up at overtaking lanes creates a dangerous situation in my mind. I much rather chose to leave them behind me. And if I get caught then I cop it sweet and pay the fine.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Same. Crash risk of single vehicles is lower than in groups of vehicles. Clearer vision, more time and space to respond to obstacles, fewer variables you cant control.
If the police choose not to give any focus to slow drivers that impede smooth traffic flow, then they should be prepared for us to overtake them. |
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What prize can we offer to the first person that figures out how to disable this system?
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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To put the number of deaths into context measured against per 100,000 head of population deaths in motor cars has never been lower. Thats the beauty of statistics you can choose to use those that suit your purpose. In the interest of sharing an alternate view we are dieing at the lowest rate ever from car accidents, why do you think the current adds to brainwash us is that one where the bloke says 70 deaths would be a good number to die on the roads this year then they march out his family and he says none that would be good. Its just an excuse to have more draconian measures and revenue raising.
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I like this quote:
"A Finnish study of fatal accidents in urban areas found nearly 30 per cent of pedestrians were killed in a 31 to 40km/h zone, and 40 per cent in a 41 to 50km/h zone, compared with 12 per cent in a 51 to 60km/h zone." Obviously the faster you go the safer it is for pedestrians is it not!! Makes sense too, as surely the pedestrians are less likely to step out onto a faster roadway! How many people would step onto a road with cars travelling at 100? Not many! Stupid rules make pedestrians feel like they can step in front of cars! When I was a little kid, roads were a place not to mess with AT ALL! Now.... well you have the right to step wherever you like in the city apparently. |
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The lower speed limits are set where there are more PEDESTRIANS! Just think, more pedestrians hit and killed where there are a greater volume of pedestrians, never!
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Change the speed limit signs. Always wondered what would happen if someone happened to swap speed limit signs. Legally the police would then be obliged to enforce the newly displayed limit ?
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NSW police said 3176 people were caught speeding. I would like to see the stats on how many were just over the speed limit.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Dont beleive me? Observe the idiot mums at school dropoff/pickup since we had 40 zones. The stupid risks they take to save a minute beggars belief. |
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Great Idea-but I would like to see it rolled out only as an App for federal Politicians- Function to stop Over spending Politicians from using our tax money for Personal/Wasteful Jaunts
A nice app linked to their office/credit card accounts to stop Fed Politicians spending OUR money on helicopter rides, family airfares overseas, trips overseas under the guise of research for one of their committee positions- yea right. They forget that they are using OUR money which they have access to on a trust basis, would like to see an AP to brake/block their attempts at misuse of OUR money.
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Interesting wonder what happens when they change a zones speed as with a section over here on a 110 zone that was re sign posted to 80 for bout 400 mtrs a few years back whist they got round to fixing it now its fixed and back to 110 but satellite s still say 80 in that area for gps and our work trucks were being flaged by head office for speeding in that area at 100
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Another revenue raising scheme bring it on we might aswell bend over from now
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We can still speed through towns. And what do you propose if I go to NT where they have an open limit?
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What about those under the limit that those speeding were over taking? Usually on a clear road (except for the flash for cash)
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They can't afford for people not to speed, Duncan Gay admitted as much in the early days of the ofarrell gvt when they were talking about removing fixed speed cameras
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I'm sure the speed limiters will allow you speed just enough to keep the revenue train coming in....
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to further put it into context more than 50000 people died from heart disease in Australia in 2013. more than 40000 people died of cancer, 12000 people died from respiratory illness. More people committed suicide than dies on the roads
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Yet, at the end of the day, who is there to listen to us people of reason??????
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Ok so it saves the 1.25 million people a year that would otherwise have died. In twenty years time more people will die of starvation because the 1.25 million a year will still be around to breed and over population of the globe will be a massive problem when you add that to the number of people already breeding throughout the world.
Seriously though how many of those road deaths are actually caused by speeding. It's an attention grabbing number but that is all it is.
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