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Originally Posted by dpastern
Sorry Peter but I disagree. The faster you go, the more is required to slow you down, and to stop if needed. I do have a licence, but I rarely use it as I prefer to use public transport as it's better for the environment. I watch the cars on the road and I'm horrified at what I see.....
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Dave, your response says to me you are not a confident driver, driving scares you, and all other drivers are marginal at best (and arrogant generalization IMHO)....hence the more legislation that puts you in a comfort zone, the better.
I am confident that I, my wife and family, work colleagues along with most other drivers (eg ISS members reading this discussion) are "safe drivers".
I personally detest layers of, dare I say, revenue raising, legislation to tell me to slow down when conditions are such that even the posted speed limit could be too fast.
Likewise I don't need some stay-safe prat telling me going at 130km and hour on a gun barrel highway with nothing but Mulga to the horizon is "unsafe".....particularly given the fact I have regularly driven in Germany
at 180km/hr and have been safely passed by a local, (in a hurry to Warsaw?
) in a 7 series Beemer sitting on 210km/hr .
No doubt you'll think such talk is heresy (and perhaps it's the anarchist in me
) But getting back to my original post.... There is just way too much legislative bubble wrapping going on!