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Originally Posted by dpastern
I think many on this thread are over bold in their driving abilities. Just because you can drive fast does not make you a good driver.
Dave
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That's a rather bold statement in and of itself, how do you know my driving abilities or the skills of any of the others posting on the topic?
Beside, it isn't the point.
The point is Australia is supposed to be the clever country isn't it?
Wouldn't it be a real clever thing to do to study the particular issue and determine what would truly improve the situation. At least start from a hypothesis and test it out?
Instead all I hear are emotive arguments. Yes of course its terrible that people die, its terrible that people plough into other innocent people etc. Emotive statements wont help us think through, devise and progress a better system...they'll just lead to a "scare campain" like so many others and the usual simple solutions politicians can get through that the masses wont be too anxious about. "reduce all speeds by 10 or 20 KM/hours because we "know" speed kills" and report the first noted downward trend and you'll have the population voting for you again.
That doesn't mean that its the best balanced system.
I suspect that if we did have a new system that taught drivers and tested them properly, that could be evaluated.
If there was a trial of a new tier system, that too could be evaluated.
What I think of my driving abilities is not relevant to the analysis of the issues and the proposal of a potential better model. One that could even be tested. I'd rather have a logical approach to addressing the issue as apposed to one based on emotive scare campaining...
And in the fullness of time, should such a trial occurs and i go for my top class license and the system finds my vehicle isn't up to scratch or I cant pass the test (theory and practice of course) then the system would be shown to be effective and I shouldn't drive any faster than whatever class license i get.
Rather than leaving it to me to guess my driving abilities, why not introduce a system that tests this?
You pass, you get access/permission to drive faster on approved roads. Noone has a real problem with Police or Ambulance driving fast. "they get better driver training" some might think. Exactly right. Let people have the option to get that training too and benefit from it on roads designed for it and in vehicles inspected to ensure it can be done safely.
frank