Speeding tickets. Why the angst?

[scumdog]

However Scummy something you may not realize (riding a Harley ) is car tech has significantly progressed since then.
My 1967 land-rover maxes out at about 80km/h, takes 2 cities to stop & about 5 to turn round
My 1988 Van maxes out at about 180km/h, takes less than 100 meters to stop & turns around in a single lane


Just saying

A shame the standard of driving hasn't advanced at the same pace eh...

[Usarka]

A shame the standard of driving hasn't advanced at the same pace eh...

So traffic enforcement by the cops hasn't raised driving standards?????

[scumdog]

So traffic enforcement by the cops hasn't raised driving standards?????

Sadly not as much as would be liked.

Even 'learn-by-wallet-pain' can't help some people.

[davereid]

Sadly not as much as would be liked.

Even 'learn-by-wallet-pain' can't help some people.

It hasn't worked for me.

I get modest fines for parking where I should not, normally extracted by the city council. I get slightly less modest fines for driving too quickly, normally extracted by the police.

But the worst fine is the one I get for going to work.

Its extracted by Inland Revenue.

They take tens of thousands of dollars off me every year. Stubbornly I keep working.

One day I will get the message and stop working. Then they will pay me. If I get a fine I can get winz to pay it or ask the court to set it aside. No problem getting $10,000 worth of fines simply dropped, or at worst exchanged for two days community service.

Slow learner me, but the light is starting to be seen.

[FJRider]

So traffic enforcement by the cops hasn't raised driving standards?????

There is no driving standard ... You pass a few tests, then told to obey the traffic rules (ignorance of what those rules is apparently no excuse for breaking them) ... end of story.

The amount of time of each driver has held a licence to drive, is not an indication of how skilled they are ...

It should ... but some are just lucky.

[Scuba_Steve]

A shame the standard of driving hasn't advanced at the same pace eh...

na I'd even go as far as to say it's gone opposite...

[theseekerfinds]

There is no driving standard ... You pass a few tests, then told to obey the traffic rules (ignorance of what those rules is apparently no excuse for breaking them) ... end of story.

The amount of time of each driver has held a licence to drive, is not an indication of how skilled they are ...

It should ... but some are just lucky.

there should be some kind of standard that provides for ongoing upskilling whereby the licence holder must successfully complete driver training which is formulated in conjunction with the road rules/laws and any upcoming changes to the laws. scuba_steve's right, the practices of todays drivers' are worse than they were a couple of decades ago..

[swbarnett]

the practices of todays drivers' are worse than they were a couple of decades ago..

Worse or just more transperant because of the increase in traffic density and media coverage?

[RDJ]

Worse or just more transperant because of the increase in traffic density and media coverage?

When I was a teenager (the '60s) a car was simpy unaffordable unless daddy was Renuera-rich. We'uns had motorbikes earned with after school jobs and those were usually hand-me-down small-cc Japanese bikes. Loads of fun of course. The point being - if/when we were idiotic or ignorant of basic physics on such a bike, we hurt ourselves usually (as Honda's safety slogan used to say "Stupid Hurts", and pain is a good teacher), and we usually did not hurt others. These days, with teens getting directly into used imports / fast cars, similar titres of idiocy and ignorance are far more often visible, and lethal. Little protective sense of vunerability is ever felt or learned.