4wd owners. Another negative survey!

Yes....another typical story against 4WDrivers. I have just posted a response(polite) on their website. I suggest everyone else does the same.
Gary.

Finally saw what that goose looks like on TV. Man he really hates 4wd's ay.

I wonder with the footage they showed of 4wd'ers making errors on public roads, how much footage of the same thing they had to cut through with people doing the same thing in your average car.

Some people must have a boring job to sit there and edit so much video to find what they are looking for.

Ange.

Yep. Saw the researcher asking for people to take part some months ago. Made some enquiries and found that participants were to be put in cars they hadn't driven before and made to drive around a predetermined route.
In other words they have judged 4wd owners on the basis of how a 4wd is driven by someone who probably has never driven anything bigger than their Excel.
Didn't bother going any further.
So most of the "dangerous" 4wd drivers had probably never driven a 4wd before.
Legitimate research, I think not!
A more valid research project would have been to monitor the driving style of some of the idiots in thier modified Commodes. (Any one else notice how often the news story about the young driver who hits a tree and kill everyone in the car is driving an old modified Commode!)

I missed it so a search of their web page shows nothing about the story so if you can find it, that would be great.

What about their "FAIR GO, Have you been the victim of an injustice?" reply to them.

Andy

Once again they are into us. They were going on about vehicles over 2 tonne requiring a special licence, so i wonder if that would include towing larger boats, large trailers ect behind a std car which would be far more dangerous.
They must be desperate for stories once again?

I tend not to worry about them toooo much as my cars are only 2wd in suburbia & 4x4 off road so they can say what they flippin like.

Hi Vince

I posted a reply on 36309 also

Andy

Solution?

Don't watch the stupid channel, especially that time of night.

Just ignore it. As long as there are 4x4 s there will be negative stories. I have found the majority of 4x4 drivers are responsible and curtious. There is a few knobs but there are some knob car drivers too.

Peter

Based on the reasoning of their story - that being people who got behind the wheel of a large vehicle under went a personality change, then all truck driver's, bus driver's, van driver's, ambulance driver's etc must be extremely dangerous! Which in turn means people who drive toy cars definitely must undergo strict driver training before they can drive any vehicle bigger than the toys they drive!
If you put anyone behind a vehicle different in size from what they were used to driving, would you see some sort of a different behaviour until the novelty wore off ?
Interesting how the study only focused on people new to being behind the wheel of a 4x4 vehicle but not on people who regularly drove 4x4's. Interesting how it also completely avoided stating how long these people were effected with this so called personality change, nor what size vehicle they regularly drove - I wonder why.

Hi Paul.
I totally agree with your comments!
What 4wd mag was it?
Vince