Originally posted by Mich the Tester
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Around some corners speed should be 20 mph or maybe even less, but is a lot safer to slow down from 40 mph to 20 mph: you don't get this problem on motorways as bends there not that sharp and visibility is good, but on country roads having 60 mph limit is a crazy thing especially given that some people exceed even that. -
we do. unfortunately it doesn't always stick. hence: a system of limits, enforcements, and punishments.Originally posted by expat View PostOriginally posted by BolshieBastardComment
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Why not a system of requirements (drive safely), enforcements, and punishments?Originally posted by lambrini_socialist View PostComment
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you mean like the highway code? and speed limits?Originally posted by expat View Post
driving safely includes limiting your speed, unless you honestly believe that it is possible to drive safely at absolutely any speed.Originally posted by BolshieBastardComment
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Of course!!! How stupid of us to be fished in on March 31st fools dayOriginally posted by Pogle View Post
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Oh don't be silly please! You are doing the Straw Man Argument so common on here (destroying an argument that I never made).Originally posted by lambrini_socialist View Post
Speed is one of the most important factors in safety, possibly the most important (I think I did say that). I just want to draw attention to the idea that it is only a means to the real end.Comment
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cursing myself yet again for being drawn into one of those threads...
look: no-one is ever going to abolish speed limits. no-one is ever going to scrap speed cameras. so i'll leave you flat-earthers you babble away harmlessly in this thread.
laters!Originally posted by BolshieBastardComment
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I like the 'prat line' idea. There aren't any traffic rules as such, just simple regulations like 'keep it on the black-top', along with a telephone line one can call and vent off on anyone else who drives badly, i.e. "XY12 34ZA drives like a prat". If the authorities get a large number of calls for a particular driver they go round and recommend training, and maybe take some of the callers at random to act as witnesses to have licenses revoked for some period.Originally posted by expat View Post
That handles those with poor driving habits. Additionally have trees planted around blind bends, at the bottom of run-offs, etc.. to act as a Darwinian style filter on the criminally incompetent driver.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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April fool's day is tomorrow right?Originally posted by DimPrawn View Posthttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/dri...cle5864847.ece
THE government is to cut the national speed limit from 60mph to 50mph on most of Britain’s roads, enforced by a new generation of average speed cameras.
The reduction, to be imposed as early as next year, will affect two thirds of the country’s road network.
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