just the other day i was cruising down a main road (80km/h) near my place (main north for any south aussies), and some woman with a pram in one hand and her 4 or 5 year old son in the other just waltzes onto the road in front of me without bothering to look at all. just steps right out there, i barely had enough time to react, slammed on the anchors in my shitter that i call a car, almost vibrates itself to pieces, and i stop a bare few metres away from her, tyres still smoking from the lock up, and she has the nerve to abuse me for almost hitting her.
youre on a main road you f**king twat! cross walk wasnt even 50 metres away.
its bad enough that i couldve killed her, i wouldnt have been able to live with myself if, god forbid, i hit and killed one of the kids, a small lapse in concentration and i couldve killed 3 people.
theres more things that need to be done to make the roads safe.
and 0 demerits isnt one of those things,
driver education from primary school, driving courses in the senior years of highschool,
and reminding pedestrians that they do not own the road.
speed limits and speed cameras need serious reviews. especially in adelaide, you have speed camers dripping off intersections that have varying 40, 50, and 60km/h roads leading into it.
theyre never put in the places where theyll do the most good. theyre put in the places where they'll earn the most money. i remember a few years ago a road near to my house had its speed limit reduced from 80 to 60km/h, the day of the speed limit change, there were 2 radar equipped cars on that stretch of road.
i was once told by my parents that any money made off 'hoons', idiots, and speeders goes back into the roads to benefit those who use them responisbly, this may have been true at one stage, but now all they worry about is the money.
and something really, really needs to be done about the 'keep it off the streets' thing, how can we keep it off the street when we have nowhere else to take it? i would love to go to a skidpan day, a defensive driving day, and all that other cool stuff to learn how to drive my car properly (it isnt anywhere near powerful, but still...), thus far the closest ive been able to get is the odd remote road...
sorry for the long winded post.