Kiwi driver challenge

[James Deuce]

i just had a conversation with a mate of mine who did a BSc in Stats at Uni about that program. I didn't see it but debated that speed was the cause of fatal accidents and said that 'rider error' was the primary cause. I then mentioned i had doubts about LTSA's crash data havign seen their loaded questions and stats. His response was:

Trust me - you give me a table of figures showing the annual wheat production
in France, and I'll be able to use it to prove that the most common source of
fatal motorcycle accidents is actually accidentally pressing the ejector seat
while driving under a bridge. Statistics prove anything.

..and he's quite right!
for instance:

"50% of British 11 year olds know of someone who is currently having sex in
their year at school."

It might not have been 11 year olds.. might have been 10 or 12, but anyway....
look at the wording. It's stupid. 50% know of someone having sex. So, let's say
we have 2 schools, with 300 11 yr olds each. of these 600 kids, 1 is having sex.
Just one. Everyone at school is going to know about it, so all of a sudden, 50%
of the pool of 600 kids know about it. Chances are some of the kids from school
A are friends with kids from school B. All it takes is for 1 person from school
B to hear about it, and then they will all know about it, and now it's up to
100% of the kids know. Add in school C... and so on and so forth.,....

So really, saying that 50% of the kids know someone having sex only means that
there is at least 1 person in the whole of Britain who is having sex, and is 11,
and that the school networking system isn't perfect... there are some schools
who are totally isolated from others.


BEWARE THE STATISTICIANS!

Might also just be that 50% of 11 year old's at that particular school just woke up to the fact that their Mum & Dad have sex.

[k14]

not necessarily K14... kinetic energy stored by a moving vehicle is a squared function (someone stop me) of its velocity. so picking up twice as much speed actually increases the energy get it back down to that speed is four times as much.. ie. your brakes do 4 times the work. hence why it doesn't take 5m to stop at 10kph and 50m to stop at 100kmhr

Yes, i know the physics of energy (Ek = 1/2mV^2).

But what i am trying to say is that if a holden commodore (which would have alot more mass than those toyotas (i think) that they did it in) can stop from 100kph in about 40m or so and they think that going 60kph as opposed to 50kph makes you take 10m more to stop, it doesnt take a physics expert to say that something doesn't add up.

Hence, it is just propaganda from the LTSA to stop people going 60 in a 50 zone. It was all put out of proportion imo.

[Lou Girardin]

I was in hysterics the way Kelly Swanson-Roe was throwing herself around in the passenger seat under the 'extreme Gs' of an extra 10km/hr through the cones. And when Oscar hiffed the watermelon out the front windscreen when he was supposed to be holding it as tight as he could...

It was 5km/h and she then tries to tell us that the car was out of control!
Lou

[Wenier]

Yea thats rite lou it was 5km and she said it was "so out of control" wut a crack up go LTSA for making most ppl i guess take ur BS. And that asian women said she hadnt had any crashes because she drove slowly, so in other words she might know the road code and all but she still could be doing 45km in a 50 and making other people do odd things to get past as she is holding them up!

Towelie