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Flying and driving are 2 vastly different things imho - one is 2d, the other 3d. Whilst I have no experience with being a pilot, I can only imagine that it takes a fair bit to be a good one. The pedestrian comment is a bit silly Peter, because you've taken me right out of context with it. There is no real need for high speeds - most people (and cars for that matter), are not capable of doing high speeds. Unless you have F1 reflexes and driving ability, then the faster you go, the higher the risk of more damage if something does happen.
I wholly agree that driver training in Australia is very poor - but that has never been the real interest of governments I'm afraid.
I'll give you an example of "speed" - when I was 2 or 3, my parents had me in their car (VW) and were driving up to my aunt/uncles place (they lived on an Aboriginal mission near Caroona, itself not far from Quirindi in NSW). My dad used to take the putty putty road, because it was quieter and more scenic. On one occasion, this truck, with a trailer on it, but unladen came flying around a blind corner and his trailer slid out, well and truly onto the wrong side of the road. He was speeding. My dad was doing the speed limit and reacted accordingly - pulling as far to the left as possible (a few centimetres from the armco) and avoided an accident. If that trailer had hit us, we'd all be dead I'd say. It had enough speed, force and mass to make a mess of things, not to mention there was a drop on the left if we went through the armco (which was going to be very highly likely I might add). If my dad had been driving faster, then he would have had less time to react, and probably would not have been able to successfully avoid the truck's trailer. If the truck driver had been driving at appropriate speeds, his trailer wouldn't have slid out onto the wrong side of the road.
I'm pretty pi$$ed that some dropkick truck driver was speeding and nearly killed a young family because of his stupidity.
See my point now?
Dave
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