TV ad attacks 'Safe Speeding'

[cowboyz]

Couple of issues as I see it. To start with the 100km/hr limit. How did they come up with that? Why not make bikes 120k/hr as they are more manoverable on the road? Because the speed limit has to be uniform to be safe and easy to police you say? What about trucks having a lower speed limit than cars? Or cars towing a trailer? No reason I can see why there can't be different speed limits for different vechicles.

Secondly. Whenever the discussion comes up about speeding or crashes then boyracers are soon to be mentioned. But are these the real problem? Sure some boyracers crash but mostly they are more interested in wrecking their tyres and making noise and showing off to the next 12 year old dressed like a whore on the street aren't they? There are 1000 reasons why people crash. 998 of those can be brought down to not paying attention. 1 is mechnical failure and the other is pure dumb luck. It is amazing how often the latter is blamed for what is obviously should be grouped in the first.

[SuperDave]

If we taught people to drive/ride instead of how to follow the rules, things would be greatly improved.
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Amen to that. Our licensing system could do with much improvement, and actually teaching people 'how' to drive/ride would be an excellent start. But this costs money, who wants to spend money and reduce road deaths/injuries when you can make money instead.

[SwanTiger]

I don't really mind all the rules and speed limits. It makes breaking them so much more satisfying.

[Riff Raff]

I laugh at all these ads, especially this one. That bitch that's whinning as the guy drives past is priceless.

Edit: Was the you Riff Raff?

Geez thanks mate!
Nah I'm one of the ambos in the background - apparently if you look really hard you might see me for about .ooooooooo1 of a second, and then I'm told there's the usual butt shot they always manage to get of me whenever I'm on tv.

[Lou Girardin]

Couple of issues as I see it. To start with the 100km/hr limit. How did they come up with that? Why not make bikes 120k/hr as they are more manoverable on the road?

That's debateable anyway. But almost any KB'er group ride is a powerful argument against a higher limit for bikes.
There's almost a continual thread about how "I binned it on the weekend".
We don't do ourselves any favours.

[cowboyz]

I hear what your saying but a higher or lower speed limit is not going to save these guys anyway. your sig says it all.

[Skyryder]

That's debateable anyway. But almost any KB'er group ride is a powerful argument against a higher limit for bikes.
There's almost a continual thread about how "I binned it on the weekend".
We don't do ourselves any favours.

Na that's a North Islander thing Lou.

We Pig Islanders never bin. You've ridden with us. You know what we are like.



Skyryder

[Moxy]

They forgot to point out the danger of parking on the roadside in a 100k area.

[scumdog]

That's debateable anyway. But almost any KB'er group ride is a powerful argument against a higher limit for bikes.
There's almost a continual thread about how "I binned it on the weekend".
We don't do ourselves any favours.

In best Blazing Saddles voice: "Citizen Lou is right"

Sure, the more serious bins often involve a bad driver and a cage of some sort BUT a shitload of bins mentioned on KB are just as Lou said.

And the last fatal was a pissed biker into the back of a parked vehicle.

[Lou Girardin]

Na that's a North Islander thing Lou.

We Pig Islanders never bin. You've ridden with us. You know what we are like.



Skyryder

So I imagined the Quacka in the ditch then?

[Searchin']

My wife got a speed camera ticket for going 56km/hr the other day. What a joke.

[Rashika]

So I imagined the Quacka in the ditch then?

ha! that was no bin, that was more like a woooopseeee slooooooow slide into the gravel of oblivion, at about 3 kms an hour....guessing the flat tyre didn't help matters.
That would just about fall into one of those..."what the fk just happened" accidents. Bloody weird to see from behind I tell ya.

[Skyryder]

ha! that was no bin, that was more like a woooopseeee slooooooow slide into the gravel of oblivion, at about 3 kms an hour....guessing the flat tyre didn't help matters.
That would just about fall into one of those..."what the fk just happened" accidents. Bloody weird to see from behind I tell ya.

Good one R. The Sin Bin thing is a North Islander thing too. But I've been trying.............

Skyryder

[MacD]

LTNZ has a budget and an agency that thinks "social marketing" will cure the world's ills. An agency that discounts heavily the effects of enforcement as a behaviour modifier. Heresy.

I was at a conference recently (not NZ) where the topic of discussion had public health implications. So a representative of the local health authority gave a presentation on how they planned to exaggerate the problem to increase the "fear factor" and then promote an unproven solution so that they could be seen to be "addressing the problem"! Without even the slightest hint of irony. She even had this nifty little matrix with numbers in it that "proved" that this was a good idea. There is no hope for humanity...

[Lou Girardin]

ha! that was no bin, that was more like a woooopseeee slooooooow slide into the gravel of oblivion, at about 3 kms an hour....guessing the flat tyre didn't help matters.
That would just about fall into one of those..."what the fk just happened" accidents. Bloody weird to see from behind I tell ya.

You Mainlanders are double hard bastards alright, if it's not flying into the shrubbery in a shower of disintegrating plastic, it doesn't count as a bin.