My favourite hobby horse...and yes it seems we've been lied to by our bureaucrats and pollies. This was in the SMH
Safety expert for Mercedes says strict speeding laws are not the answer to lowering road tolls.
A leading safety expert says a crackdown on speeding is not the answer to reducing the road toll.
The vice president of safety development for Mercedes-Benz, Ulrich Mellinghoff, says crash avoidance systems, better roads and more roundabouts would do more to cut the road toll than tougher speeding laws... .....His claims are borne out by German road statistics. In 1972, there were 20,000 deaths on West German roads. In 2009, there were 4100, despite 20 million more people on the road (including the old East Germany).
The full article can be seen here:
http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/s...0304-pjin.html
Speeding motorists in Oz are such a soft target. Sadly, the revenues raised would not be given up easily....as the German option would require better roads, flow control and driver eductaion...and that costs.