GPS systems

The stupid thing is speed on its own doesnt kill.

Driver attitudes and incompeticy do.

In my young and silly days we used to vie with each other to set the fastest time over a 105km tourist road in NZ It was gravel and rutted. None of us died. We learnt to handle the car and 30 years ago they werent anthing like what we have now.
Admittedly we did it usually at night when there was no one else on it being a blind end. From Te Anau to Milford sound if you are wondering

I was taught car handling in a 34 V8 in a wet paddock. That taught you quite a bit abut skids etc.

Should be mandatory today to do a test on a skidpad.

Most people think they drive really well UNTIL SOMETHING GOES WRONG.
They then dont have any idea of what to do.

Woops, in a skid!!! hit the brakes Oh damn where did that tree come from.

You see it here all the time.

It rains, all the idiots are out fishtailing and skidding around roundabouts, still tailgating.

Get in car leave brain at home.

Queensland drivers on their usual behaviour

Too true

Last week I just missed being cleaned up by a young woman as I crossed an intersection in a line of traffic (including a highly visible bus)with the green light. As I was just across the first set of lanes my eye was caught by a car coming right at me from the right, then BBang- she hit the front of the car following me. To achieve this she drove through two sets of red lights, the first a hundred metres before impact. And she didn't see that she was about to plough into a solid line of traffic. Didn't even deploy the anchors.

She was doing about 80 (the posted limit). She denied using the mobile but jeeaz, how flippin hopeless must she be. The roads are full of the these idiots.

But who do the police and speed cameras target?

Yep and she WASNT using a mobile. Muxt have had eyes shut then.

My best two with young female drivers are

No 1 Heard a crash at home a few weeks ago Look outside to see a girl looking at front of car. Wandered over to see what happened

She had come around a corner and onto the bridge over canal,mounted left gutter which is about 10ins high and went 2 car lengths and hit a lampost pushing l/h wheel back to door. No brake marks.She got out of car with phone in hand No prizes in guessing what caused it.
No 2 Was drriving buses back in NZ Stopped at a red light. Woman on far side of l/h street saw a friend and stopped right on corner to talk.
Light changed she was still talking so l took off was right in front of her when she just booted it. Hit the bus on rear door and peeled the front of her car right off leaving lying on the road in front of it,lights bumper and all.
Shes screaming what did I DO THAT FOR.
I said u just came through a red light and isnt the bus big enough to see 6 feet in front of you.
She yelling and going on so I just wandered off and said tell hubby how you did that when you get home.
Never heard any more about it
LOL

I'd take it one step further Graham

The combined attitude of the police / government and research agenices that back them actually have had the effect of keeping the death toll on the roads above what it should normally be.

Its a fascinating cartel to watch as they each feed on each other into believing things and seeking the statistics to support their position , this leads to a mentality that it has to be the bad motorist rather than exploring the whole issue and seeing how there role has been much less than what it could have been.

As their policies fail, it obviously means they haven't beaten up the motorist hard enough and so they get into a bidding war on what extra restrictions they can place on said motorists.

Its a subject I will expand apon one day when the argument is complete.

I think you will find people are speeding less and the government are losing to much revenue. So they lower the limit tolerance to make more money.
The road toll lets them justify more speed cameras and more $$$$.

L O L Greg..........Good one

We found by fitting 265/75/16 tyre it corrected the speedo. the std is 265/70/16 on the Patrols. except when A/T tyres were fitted. I have an 03 GU and we are actually faster than the speedo reads. Only by 2km/h at 100kmh.