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Originally Posted by mental4astro
Peter, are you for real!
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Very much so. The point I am trying to make is in appropriately regulated environments, travel at speed can be conducted with excellent safety........Just as it would be madness to place some untrained drunken hoon in the cockpit of a high performance aircraft
BTW it was also the Sydney Morning Herald that ran a piece that stated... (re: autobahn safety) this....
Despite having no speed limit along much of their routes, these massive roads account for 31 per cent of road travel and just 3 per cent of the road toll. A 2005 study by the German interior ministry found sections with unrestricted speeds had the same crash rate as sections with a variety of speed limits imposed.
For sure, not all autobahn users are in the latest 7 series Beemer doing 240km/hr plus. But even those that are still slip back into a right hand lane after overtaking as a matter of courtesy.
Many Oz drivers are mugs in comparison...they chug along a 110km/hr limit freeway, in the right lane at 95-100km/hr and never think to move left.
If we are ever to get serious about the Oz road toll, seems to me serious efforts need to be made in: driver training, flow control, vehicle standards & road standards.....and may well involve *raising* speed limits for some roads.
To morosely focus on speed at the expense of all else clearly isn't working.