Speed tolerance reduced for December and January

[Indoo]

It's a shame we don't have the same fanatical level of debate, analysis and resourcing applied to reducing our nations suicide figures which are more than twice that of the road toll.

[DMNTD:Me]

Good one I say. I have no sympathy for people that speed or break the law. The govt needs to get money from somewhere and I'd rather it come from the dumbarses out there instead from honest law abiding citizens. Sure I've had the occasional speeding ticket but I know the risks and am prepared to accept the punishment should I get caught.

And you chose Hoon as a log in why?

[Scuba_Steve]

It's a shame we don't have the same fanatical level of debate, analysis and resourcing applied to reducing our nations suicide figures which are more than twice that of the road toll.

Govt still hasn't found a way to profit off that, I mean they have that 20,000$ fine for getting hit by trains but think they might be finding it hard to claim said money

[R650R]

Yeah, thing is, laws have to be enforcable to be effective.

I'd love to have a law that allows better drivers to go faster than fuckwits, but that'd mean setting up a system to define who the fuckwits are.

So we make a law for everyone based on the fuckwits. Because they do exist, so we gotta allow for them.

You have a system in place already, well for trucks anyway, called the operator safety rating system. It could easily be adapted to cars and bikes but the govt isn't really serious about saving lives, only appearing to save lives and get re elected next time around. For those that don't know, trucking firms are rated under a LTSA scheme by how many accidents, overloads, defects and infringments the drivers get. The bad ones get targeted more while the others get waved through. I'm sure it made my employers day when being the last driver with a clean license that I got pinged for 82 in a 70 at 4am...
I do pity Rastus and his colleagues being tasked with trying to make a difference with such a messy system with all its contradictions, but its an insult to human intelligence to have this arbitrary 4k tolerance.

[AllanB]

I'd suggest that most of the tickets will be issues in sub 70km areas - it's OK to be doing 60 in a 50 ......

[Akzle]

Yeah, thing is, laws have to be enforcable to be effective.

I'd love to have a law that allows better drivers to go faster than fuckwits, but that'd mean setting up a system to define who the fuckwits are.

So we make a law for everyone based on the fuckwits. Because they do exist, so we gotta allow for them.

but, dealing in fact, its not enforceable 100% of the time,
that persons continually get noticed for speeding, shows its not effective, either.

That 'good driver' scheme could be made out of the licensing bullshit, innit? But it isnt, is it.
I wonder why.

[Akzle]

No you said you're probably paying attention while speeding, which implies there is a finite amount of time you aren't.

Now you're saying it's 100% of the time? so you were mistaken?

I would have thought someone who can operate at 100% all the time wouldn't make a mistake like that....

youre being deliberately jew, methinks.

I was talking about running, yknow,fluro sneakers, ipod arm band and tight pants...

'speeding'? I do it frequently. Total number of traffic collisions due to speed, or even over the limit = 0
thems good odds.

Dolphins are intelligent and friendly.

[eelracing]

It's quite simple,if you use backroads you'll never get pulled.
Popo can't get enough revenue so they don't frequent there.
If you insist on the drudgery of town limits and highways then your a tool,or car driver...same diff.

[jellywrestler]

Trouble is, I'm working in the real world where shit has to actually happen, not virtually.

hsit doesn't actually happen, it's caused by arseholes.....

[jellywrestler]

Dolphins are intelligent and friendly.

dolphins are just gay sharks...

[kiwi cowboy]

My answer to this is simple "SO FUCKING WHAT?"


Name any two groups and I can guarentee that one subsidises the other. Let's, for example, split people up into those that regularly have accidents and those that hardly ever do. Obvious cross-subsidising there. Should someone that has never made an ACC claim in their life be awarded their entire life's levies back on their death bed? Of course not.

Not to mention the fact that I would say 99.9 percent of motor cycle owners own and redg a car/4wd and pay the acc portion of that added to motorcycle acc = bullshit.

[rastuscat]

Cool, another thread hijacked by the ACC debate.

[Oblivion]

I hate staring at the speedo. I despise it. If I'm not looking out for myself on the road, who the fuck will. There have been numerous times where I've taken a quick squizz at the speedo, doing around 59, and boom, theres a car right in front of me that didnt indicate or even look. A quick blast of the horn usually gets their attention though.

[russd7]

Cool, another thread hijacked by the ACC debate.

not hijacked, we all know its acc fault that we have to speed to get the value out of our acc levies paid to liscence our motorcycles and then because of the extra damage caused by the sudden stop caused by the elevated speed that we are travelling meaning that acc cannot afford to cover it then you guys have to get revenue from our said speeding to make up the short fall, see its the fault of acc that we speed and then you have to ticket us for speeding ,
phew that was a mouth full but i think i got it all out

[Scuba_Steve]

I don't think it's been posted yet? Here's the new P.I.G.mobiles in mention