Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat
4x4 Bashing
Eeyore:
Yep, the Dazster comes up trumps again! Clearly the man needs more work! :wink:
Actually the pedestrian point is a good 'un, because it's actually very hard to hit pedestrains unless they're in the road.
So all of a sudden, it's our responsibility if a pedestrian, who steps into the road without being fully aware, gets hit by a vehicle (and less accidents happen at crossing than you think).
Excessive and inappropriate speed still contributes to more accidents than the drive system of the vehicle.
I've followed a 200mph TVR in a traffic jam a 5mph - so if my 4x4 is unecessary, what about his Becksmobile? And which one used the most fuel?
Pollution? In the States a recent study has revealed that Off-Highway vehicles (i.e. contruction kit - 'yellow goods') contribute far more polution (such as fine particulates) than all the diesel road vehicles in the US put together.
Many of the issues and crtitisisms aimed at 4x4 drivers are simply people going around a problem to solve a problem.
Just some more fuel to the fire
Cheers
Eeyore
datalas:
Just to add yet another log onto the fire (which seems to have been made out of that soap box I was on earlier)
There is a currently growing, and rather worrying trend of legislation in this country which is oblivious to the nature of cause and effect.
There are too many cars on the roads? let's ban cars then.. it's completely missing the point that people are not going to spend £20 or so thousand pounds on a car, or two merely on the whim, nor are they going to take the two hours a day out of their lives to drive their children to school without some form of reason.
The government should (IMHO) spend a few minutes attempting to reason *why* people feel the need to own and use vehicles before they go about stopping them by imposing a draconian and ridiculous measure against something that is a response to a different problem.
Consider the following scenario. You're repeatedly being struck by a stick which is causing you to come up in quite painfull bruises. Do you a) do nothing, b) put on a jumper to make the stick hurt less ? This is the problem as far as it is currently seen, sane people of course would plumb for option "c", ask the idiot with the stick to stop hitting you.
If people are driving cars for pointless journeys, is it because of the following...
* crumbling public transport infrastructure which is dirty, unreliable and unpleasent. Often being older than the people on them, and delapidated / vandalised.
* lack of localised facilities, caused by a "rationalisation" scheme which moves things out of the local community and into areas which are hard to get to, but curiously cheaper.
* a crumbling educational system which forces parents to have to carefully choose and cope with schools miles from where they live in the vauge hope that their children leave school with the ability to count.
* vastly overpriced alternative forms of transport, which are either inconvenient, dangerous or just not suitable.
nope, it's because we're lazy and like the status symbol apparently.
turtle:
Gosh Daz, you should be in goverment. But again can't knock what your saying.
hobbit:
You know daz you should go on one of the discussion progs about this, it would be interesting to say the least :twisted:
kev
banditman:
Politicians have silly large gobs which produce a lot of emmissions !!!!!
RANT
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version