I'm deadly serious. Speeding. Failing to indicate. Not giving sufficient distance between yourself and the car in front of you. Using a mobile phone whilst driving. Smoking whilst driving. Children not strapped in. Owners not strapped in. Not driving with both hands on the wheel. Not maintaining a car properly - bald tyres, worn brakes and the list goes on. Trust me, all of that carries the vast majority of drivers on the road.
There's an old saying:
"2 hands for beginners" and I guarantee you, that if F1 drivers use both hands, and they're experts, then I'd expect ordinary drivers to most certainly use both hands.
10km/h over the limit is enough to increase your stopping distance by quite a fair bit. Most people on the road have average reflexes, poor to average eyesight and poor attention spans. Road statistics don't lie - we're a horrid nation for road fatalities. Poor driver education, poor driving skills all add up. To think anything else is being irresponsible and naive.
Dave
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Yikes!!! You're not serious are you Dave? An average person (errr - like me) doesn't think about what they're doing??? Are you an average person? And do you really believe that only 1 in 20 people deserve to hold a drivers license??!! That means that of the 11 or so people who have responded to this thread, no one is good enough to drive a car???!!!
I believe it's just that kind of holier than thou mentality that drives the thought processes of some of our legislators when they seek to introduce more stupid regulation to control our lives ... I.e. we government folk know better than you poor ignorant plebs - we'll save you from yourselves!
I say the majority of people ARE capable of critical thought and ARE able to make sensible choices without having rules dictated at them. And for the true idiots there are prisons and hospitals that will fix them right up.
Marcus
PS: Good thread Peter!  |