Reply to: Night driving - what do you think?

[TykeMerc]

Driving a car is a good way to avoid shark attack. There has not been a single recorded case of a shark attacking a person driving a car. Sadly, the same cannot be said of surfboards.

I'd imagine there must be a few cases of surfboards flying off a roofrack and smacking a following car so you're probably right.

[TimberWolf]

Driving a car is a good way to avoid shark attack. There has not been a single recorded case of a shark attacking a person driving a car. Sadly, the same cannot be said of surfboards.

[d000hg]

Most drivers who have accidents are wearing underwear. Ban underwear.

But the proportion of people driving without underwear who crash is probably higher than those who are wearing it.

[TimberWolf]

Yeah night time driving on the M-way is great... nice and easy...

until you see this:

[Paddy]

I think a blanket ban is a sensible idea. Horrible, itchy things. Personally, I favour a cosy duvet when I'm driving at night.

Most drivers who have accidents are wearing underwear. Ban underwear.

[Alf W]

Polish lorry drivers seem to be able to manage 36 hour non-stop journeys. Perhaps they should be looking at how they cope.

[BoredBloke]

What does it say about driving at night while tanked up on Vodka?

I think that there are other laws that deal with this one. Bloody killjoys that they are!!

[gingerjedi]

Why not double the speed limit at night? It would halve the number of hours a driver needs to be on the road.

[northernladuk]

Does that mean I have to hire two drivers now? One will have to sleep in the boot while the other does his alloted time. I think the Bently has enough room if my clubs aren't in there

[MarillionFan]

What does it say about driving at night while tanked up on Vodka?

[NickFitz]

2 hours... pah - when I used to do a lot of night rallies we'd be doing 6 hour events from around midnight with just a half hour break halfway through for fuel, and at competitive speeds too i might add.

I thought we'd seen the end of the nanny state with labour

What's either rally driving or the state got to do with it? The article is about research into motorway driving, and there's no mention of any government having expressed any response either for or against the recommendations made.

There'a also a major disparity between the scaremongering in the lead ("...experts who carried out the research want governments to impose a maximum two-hour limit on continuous night-time driving") and what the experts actually said ("A maximum continuous night-time driving duration of two hours should be recommended") - a recommendation is not an imposition.

In fact, current advice is already that you should take a break every two hours whether driving at night or in the day, so if the researchers' recommendations were implemented to the letter it would result in no change from the status quo.

[TykeMerc]

I thought we'd seen the end of the nanny state with labour

In this H&S indoctrinated, entitled, compensation society, haven for ambulance chasing legal firms? Cloud cuckoo land old chap.

[Dark Black]

lightweights...

2 hours... pah - when I used to do a lot of night rallies we'd be doing 6 hour events from around midnight with just a half hour break halfway through for fuel, and at competitive speeds too i might add.

I thought we'd seen the end of the nanny state with labour

[SueEllen]

That will work really well in the UK where mid winter it's dark by 4pm, I'd imagine it's the same in many parts of northern Europe.

Don't forget driving in the morning before 8am in winter. If you set off at 5am you could easily be driving for 2 or more hours in the dark.

Anyway the research in the article is not statistically valid for a number of reasons including the sample size, the age of the participants and the gender of the participants.

[MrRobin]

Yeah night time driving on the M-way is great... nice and easy...

until you see this: