Originally Posted by
rastuscat
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I work in road safety. Most days I feel like I'm pissing into the wind.
There are some basic, easy free things people could do to improve their safety. But most just dont get it.
And because they haven't binned yet, they dont see the need to change. Until it's too late.
Then they blame someone or something else, when its they who could have avoided the bin for free.
I've mentioned this before but it fits here. As you observe, people don't get it - and they won't. Nothing in the evolution of human beings has prepared us for motorised transport.
Couple that with the undeveloped cerebral cortex of people under 25 and you have two reasons why people are unable to link actions with consequences.
"The Upper Half Of The Motorcycle" by Berndt Spiegel discusses such things in detail, and a whole lot more. Currently available from The Book Depository NZ$57.83 freight free. The author, formerly a psychology lecturer, later a motor industry research scientist, is an experienced recreational motorcyclist and former racer. Of the forty odd motorcycling books I have here I'd rate this the most serious, certainly the most scholarly.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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