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The best way to stop most road deaths
mike142sl:
I have a limiter on mine - Cruise Control.
Ideal for those camera limited bits of road.
However I'm finding, since getting the caravan, that 60mph in the inside lane is quite liberating - everyone just bobbies off into the distance to leave the road clear for me and I'm getting 25% more mpg than the same journey at 80mph.
Rich_P:
--- Quote from: Boddle on July 11, 2008, 09:39:50 --- If you design a car for safety you don't inform the person buying it how safe the car is. it a fact the safer the driver feels the dangerously they drive.
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Volvo managed to get away with it, seemed to cause the opposite for quite a few years. :doh: :lol:
lambert:
Here's a thought.
As we are all aware speed and momentum are linked. At equal speed a heavier vehicle will do more damage than a light one to the same object.
So given that hgv's are roughly 40 times heavier than cars lets have them travel at one fortieth of the speed.
That would work for the environment too as goods would need to go by train to get anywhere on time and as we know one train 5 times a week is equivalent to 800 truck journeys.
Alternativly cars could go forty times as fast, yay!
discowoman:
--- Quote from: Bigbluemaverick on July 11, 2008, 22:46:32 ---Here's a thought.
As we are all aware speed and momentum are linked. At equal speed a heavier vehicle will do more damage than a light one to the same object.
So given that hgv's are roughly 40 times heavier than cars lets have them travel at one fortieth of the speed.
That would work for the environment too as goods would need to go by train to get anywhere on time and as we know one train 5 times a week is equivalent to 800 truck journeys.
Alternativly cars could go forty times as fast, yay!
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This is Disco womans Hubby...the government actually considered a bill that would ban vehicles over 25 tonnes off the UK roads - until somebright spark actually pointed out that 1 x HGV carrying 44 tonnes is a lot better than 44 x Transit vans carrying 1 tonne each...Thats the brains of the people, as for speed limiters - im an EX hgv driver so used to them, but I still sit at 56 when im in the car, saves fuel and the average 15-20 minutes it adds on to a journey is more than made up for by the fuel saving - and also less stress (also notice that when the traffic is snarled up - the inside lane is usually still movin )
redhand:
I have read al the posts on this thread and I'm amazed at the sweeping generalisations in it. No one one this thread has had to do any of the draconian measures suggested on here, and yet they seem to think that the comments they've made would never apply to them. In fact if they got a letter through the post saying that the government was introducing these measures and retrospectively applying them to every driver in the country. They would probably be up in arms and ranting about the unfairness of it all. Have they forgotten that they were once learner drivers who had a handfull of lessons and then took their test. And managed to stay alive this long. If they can manage it then so can millions of other drivers/learners.
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