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Your thoughts on driving at 159 mph
driftwood:
--- Quote from: "beast5680" ---providing he was genuinly carrying out an evaluation of the vehicle and he was conducting it at a safer time of the day
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not being funny (dont take it funny and i see your point) but isn't there test centers for that, like the motor industry reasearch assosiation ( mira ). i do some work there and they have test tracks for this purpose.
he was probabily late for mcdonalds opening :lol:
thermidorthelobster:
The stopping distance was a quarter of a mile, according to the news. Police driver or no police driver, I can't see how that can be safe. Michael Schumacher could come a cropper in those circumstances.
thermidorthelobster:
--- Quote from: "LOFTY" ---Well car law sucks anyway, That teacher who fired a air pistol at the ground, near some yobs, who have been terroising her, she gets 6 months i believe.
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As I understood it, she fired near some youths who were not necessarily the yobs that had been terrorising her, which is a little different.
muddyweb:
From the information in the story, which for the purposes of this I am assuming to be complete (OK, OK)....
It was the early hours of the morning.... he is an experienced and trained officer.... we spent a lot of money making him that way.
To dismiss him or take him off active duty would seem to be counter-productive in the grand scheme of things.
He should probably have been given a good shouting at, unless he was actually acting with the knowledge of his department, of course ;-)
What upsets me more is that money has been wasted bringing this to an overcrowded court system, where an internal procedure would probably have been more appropriate.
datalas:
whilst I am not going to shed an opinion one way or the other, there are perhaps a couple of points that were outlined in the article, and a couple of points that weren't really addressed.
a) he is a highly qualified and instructed driver who specialises in high speed persuits, this would (theoretically at least) mean he is better able to handle the stated speeds.
b) "early hours" this doesn't really address the traffic density, likelyhood of pedestrians etc etc. Without knowing the layout of the road or whether anybody else was on it at the time means we should reserve judgement.
c) 159mph is jolly quick, but there are roads which can support those sorts of speeds in this country, provided of course there are no people to hit.
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