How the media can make safety worse

[rastuscat]

Good start P.Dath now if only we can convince you that ANY car or driver can do that......you might just live.

Road is a dangerous place so long as others are on it. Doesn't matter how good your skill is.

Ironically, a road poses no danger to you if you are not on it, and by deduction, a road is dangerous as long as you are on it. Ipso facto.

Therefore, we hold the greatest ability to influence our own safety by factoring in what others do.

Deep. Scary. True.

So there.

[neels]

It's good to hear that the first thought is whether or not the cop is about to do a u turn, rather than am I reg'd/wof'd/licenced/too pissed.

Red and blue lights can mean any number of things. Could be another biker down on the road that you were about to run over if the lights weren't there, an accident that you were about to plough into, a boy racer in an illegally modified honda civic has just been pulled over and stickered so he won't kill himself and his mates.

The fact that you saw them and slowed down means they did their job, the media has just added a u-turning cop to the list of reasons why you should slow down, which has actually made you safer.

[schrodingers cat]

The media makes everything worse.
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Basically agree

The cause was the neanderthall that took umbrage at the colour red. What next? FFS!

OMG - you are inferring that an individual should be held responsible for his actions. I bet he wasn't breast fed the poor dear.

Methinks he'll be getting some beats soon tho...