Ken got busted - what about the decision makers? Funny how many pollies don't drive.... How many politician's drivers have been fined for speeding?
Since when was an analogue gauge (speedo) in a car, with human reflexes & parallax error (Error in reading your speedo pointer because your eye and pointer are not in line with your gauge) meant to be tolerant within 3 odd km's before you get pinged? Who agreed to this?
I know I spend more time looking at the speedo when a cop's around and less time observing what's on the road - making it more dangerous. It seems the authorities want it to be like this all the time. Maybe 'fear' of speeding (or getting fined) is contributing to road incidents because people can't dedicate enough time to observing the road conditions?
Unfortunately, there will always be 'hoons' in this world. The law of averages... there will always be an 'incident' on the roads with some idiot.
Looking at the percentage of cars on the road today, I'm surprised that we (as a society) aren't more appreciative of automotive technology and how it has reduced deaths on the road.
If you compare the number of cars vs fatalities from the 1970's to today - it's gone from over 1000 fatalities in 1970 to under 400 today. I don't have the stats on the number of cars from the 70's till today, but you can imagine how much more traffic is on the roads now.
Check this link: http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/monmag/issue...toll-graph.html
I wonder if the balance of road incidents has changed to violence on the streets? That would be an interesting study.... but I'm getting side tracked. Back to the point.
Given there are soooo many more cars on the road today, maybe we should ask if the government has kept up with keeping the infrastructure up to scratch?? Instead of dropping speed limits to counter-productive and humanely impossible levels, imagine if the roads were designed to carry the number of today's cars at a reasonable pace (and to improve business throughput).?
In my opinion, I reckon there would be less road rage, fatalities might be more contained and business would do better if the roads could cope .... The reality is that it is probably easier to reduce speed limits, make money by fining people instead of spending money on the roads to improve flow and make them better to travel on.
Rant over!