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The best way to stop most road deaths

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Wireless:
Use hands free with auto answer and you'll never be justifying the emergency nature of your call to a court.

I'd still be quite happy having my maximum speed limited to the road I'm on by satellite control of the speed limiting device, I see nothing wrong with this at all.

I don't think the majority of collisions can be called accidents, since someone is virtually always to blame, this is the thinking behind emergency service parlance moving to calling vehicle collisions 'incidents', rather than 'accidents', RTC rather than RTA.

I've been driving 26 years and only ever had a Parking Ticket, and even that was contested and revoked.

I agree with crazymac, I religiously follow restricted speed limits on Motorways, and remember driving on the A53 through the small village of Baldwins Gate, which has an unusual 30mph limit that starts well away from the village, I had this Audi up my arse looking to overtake for about 1/4 of a mile, and I refused to speed up, then we rounded a blind bend and there was the mobile speed camera vehicle sat there waiting for impatient Audi drivers.  Lo and behold, the Audi decided to drop back through the rest of the village.

I can honestly say that the only dodgy thing I've ever done behind the wheel is wear a pair of driving gloves when I was 17, but this only lasted 10 minutes because;

1. my hands started to sweat
2. there was a lack of feel whilst steering
3. maybe driving gloves didn't suit the Austin Allegro anyway

JumboBeef:

--- Quote from: Tommo on July 18, 2008, 16:59:25 ---It was on the radio the other day that they can now jail someone for 14 years (iirc) for killing someone whilst your on the phone. Now this scares me, i never talk on the phone whilst im driving but i could see my self answering it if it was to be very important, if only to say 'ill ring you back'. now at this moment if a kid stepped out im knackered! jail for 14 years, my whole life ruined.
--- End quote ---

If you don't have a hands free, switch the phone off.  No call is that important!

Just think how we all lived just 15 years ago or so and none of us had mobiles yet we all still got to work, got home and did everything else without being no more than 10 second away from the nearest telephone.

andycwb:

--- Quote from: henryandlesley on July 10, 2008, 22:50:43 ---Who aggrees with me that if this goverment pays more attention to reducing the speed down to 70 mph in cars by fitting a speed limiter.

--- End quote ---

So everyone is driving in a catatonic state because they have their foot to the floor and nothing is keeping their interest on the road.

I will emigrate before I have a speed limiter on my vehicle.

Wireless:
Interesting, when people wish to retain the right to break the Law, which is either because they feel they should be trusted not to, or because they are better drivers than the rest of us and are better able to set their own speed limits when they feel like it.

Anyone prone to a catatonic state behind the wheel really needs to take more breaks from driving, since if LGV drivers can manage an 8 to 10 hour day at 56mph, I'm pretty certain the rest of us can manage 70mph for a couple of hours in a car using cruise control.

Threatening to leave the country does no good either, since there's plenty if immigrants wanting to get in.

frosty:


 To be brutally honest id rather you all went out and hand crashes, just not ones where anyones injured/killed... works been bloody quiet the last couple of weeks and the old finances are suffering! so if a few of you could just pop round this way and have a few little shunts, itd be appreciated!

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