Interesting reading - speed limit tolerance

[scumdog]

That ad shows a driver basically doing everything wrong. But speed is the only issue that is highligted. Ergo, speed is bad + everything else is fine.

You would overwhelm their mind if anything more than one driving error was pointed out to them.

And a radar reading doesn't perpetrate a discussion "I didn't cut that corner" I DID stop at the stop sign" "I WAS wearing my seatbelt" yadda yadda..

Maybe if speed was not an issue the other problems would be looked at a bit harder?

If it was ONLY money it would make more sense to dish out $150 tickets for not stopping at a stop sign vs $80 for 57kph.

[MSTRS:Me]

You would overwhelm their mind if anything more than one driving error was pointed out to them.

So why include them in such an ad. It grinds my gears to see stupidity being blamed on speed.

Besides, such mindless focus on one issue, whilst showing a heap of others, has trained their minds to be overwhelmed when presented with multiplicities of driving knobbishness...

"He only crashed because he was going 10kph too fast. Everything else must have been fine, otherwise they would have said."

[flyingcrocodile46]

I like it when a thread contains comments from people who are intelligent enough to see and comment on the validity (or otherwise) of the issues. Good shit. Much better than the average KB posts.

[shrub]

So why include them in such an ad. It grinds my gears to see stupidity being blamed on speed.

Besides, such mindless focus on one issue, whilst showing a heap of others, has trained their minds to be overwhelmed when presented with multiplicities of driving knobbishness...

"He only crashed because he was going 10kph too fast. Everything else must have been fine, otherwise they would have said."

Speed is easy to measure wheras bad driving is extremely hard. If I do 105 kmh there is a calibrated radar that shows how fast i was going and can be presented in a court of law to prove my naughtiness, wheres driving badly is very subjective and is entirely dependent on the interpretation of the officer concerned, and in a court of law will be relatively defendable if I have a good lawyer. So we're stuck with road policing that focusses on speed at the expense of almost anything else, and that isn't going to change because the Propaganda Ministry have done a sterling job with their advertisements, and John and Mary Citizen are now convinced that speed and alcohol are the only real problems on the roads (apart from risky intersections, but that's just a gamble).

[Scuba_Steve]

yea bad driving is hard to measure especially when age comes into it by being old you are automatically a good driver is seems & therefore don't get charged, its almost like being part of the P.I.G. gang
"Police say a couple, aged 100 and 99, are unlikely to face charges after driving the wrong way along State Highway 1 through Wellington's Ngauranga Gorge on Sunday, because of their age.
Amazingly the duo managed to dodge oncoming southbound traffic for about two kilometres before colliding with another car about 9pm." 2008 article

[Kickaha]

I see it is being claimed as a success

Road policing national manager, Superintendent Paula Rose said yesterday that the low road toll was pleasing but not surprising since police had introduced a "no excuses" policy towards all drivers breaking the speed limit this weekend. All drivers caught travelling more than 4kmh over the posted permanent speed limit were to be ticketed.

With less than 12 hours remaining in the Queen's Birthday Holiday weekend and just one recorded road death so far -- the lowest toll in more than 50 years -- police are trumpeting their zero tolerance approach to speeding as a factor.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/...st-since-1956/
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/7359...r-54-year-low/

[MSTRS:Me]

I see it is being claimed as a success

We weren't expecting that...