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Originally Posted by dpastern
I guarantee that it would be. ......,
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How? On what basis? The stats are there autobahns are 10x safer. If the Germans can do it, why can't we put similar systems in place?
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Originally Posted by dpastern
My dad was born in Germany, lived in Germany for a number of years before emigrating to Australia, and that's his take on the subject.
Dave
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Good for him. When did he leave? the early 1960's??
I was in Germany only last year, my observation was there are many roads in Oz on a par with Autobahns which could easily take 140-150km traffic. I am not suggesting open slather, many can't.
People like yourself equate only speed as being maniacal and unsafe.
I see this as simplistic, as the German experience shows, driving at speed can be very safe. If speed alone was "unsafe" here every October there would be a bloodbath at the Bathurst 1000.
BTW If you find driving at a decent clip scary, maybe you need to take an advanced driving course (I have and recommend every driver should as well).
Speed also needs to be appropriate....there are many circumstances where the posted limit is too fast.
Training drivers to know the difference seems sensible to me, but sadly is not in the Stay-Safe Committee's mantra.
Rather than learn from the German model, our dim Oz bureaucrats are lazy and would rather bubble wrapping everything plus provide a nice revenue raising stream for their political masters.....