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Originally Posted by KenGee
I really don't understand why this keeps coming up. Perhaps it's whenever one of our lead footed Astro friends gets a ticket!
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No ticket here, but I suspect it's always a good bone to chew
For me it is the arbitrary nature of posted limits...plus the fact I have no faith at all in the ability of some bureaucrat to define what is a "safe speed"
I grow tired of the argument that speed is inherently unsafe. It is a non issue in well regulated environments (eg aviation, autobahns).
Oz road toll figures have been somewhat static. About 1500 (1441 in 2008, and 1507 in 2009) Australians die on our roads each year. You'd think if our draconian speed regime was effective, this number would not be static....
Rather than a morose "speed kills" mantra, I suggest a different approach be taken. Could it be a simple as: hitting things in the first place is the problem?? .... hence the German perspective of mitigating the chance of such events by good driver education and flow control has to be worth a try.