TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
I actually have a fair bit of respect for what you do and tend to agree with a fair bit of stuff you say but for anyone to set a goal of zero road deaths, as the guvment have indicated, are setting it up for failure. People will look at it and laugh as unless we become totally regulated and controlled and all put in completely automated transportation then it is absolutely unachievable. for a goal to be any good it has to be achievable or no one will take any notice of it.
I have ridden with people who are afraid of dying whilst riding and honestly i don't ride with them for long, they become dangerous and unpredictable with their braking etc, i have also ridden with (and been one) riders who don't really give a rats arse if they die while riding and so ride accordingly, I kinda think im somewhere in the middle now, im not scared of being killed while riding but i do mitigate risk to a large degree, yes i have done ride forever courses which have reminded me that i became lazy as opposed to teaching me a whole lot of stuff i didn't already know but i enjoy riding for the risk it poses as much as anything else.
having said that, any close call i have i always dissect it to see why i ended up in a close call situation and what i could have done better to avoid another persons mistake. (my mistakes i already know what i did wrong).
to me where there is life, there is death, and horrible shit happens from time to time.
set goals that are achievable, zero deaths is not an achievable goal
Unless something has changed it was "increasingly free of deaths and serious injuries" so an ongoing reduction which you can't argue with. No government can set an actual number as a target. Will try and find an Australian TV ad from a couple of years ago which shows why that does not make sense.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ries-from-2020
actually have zero respect for this person
In some circles it's referred to as Vision Zero, so the aim is to have none, whilst accepting that Human Factors makes this unattainable.
I think this was covered earlier in the thread.
Anyway, that video as to why you cannot have an acceptable number - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_v34lK_oXw
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
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