NZ road safety ads & videos (2014)

[Akzle]

Saw a detective the other day talking on a mobile while driving, they must have special exemption Im thinking.

dont even fucking start me. i've been IN A FUCKING COP CAR, while the prick was talking on his phone.

course that cocount cunt thought he was hot shit. little boy, big stick and what.

[Scuba_Steve]

Yep, I do, as it's bloody rare that anyone can do it successfully. Usually, the driving is shocking, well, it's shocking with or without the phone, but very likely shocking with the phone?

But haven't you noticed all this law's done is make those drivers even more shocking as they try all sorts of shit to hide their phone in use including... wait for it... head below the dash only appearing once in awhile to make sure they were still going straight

[unstuck]

But haven't you noticed all this law's done is make those drivers even more shocking as they try all sorts of shit to hide their phone in use including... wait for it... head below the dash only appearing once in awhile to make sure they were still going straight

Yeah, I know a shearer like that, real dangerous fucker. With any luck he will only kill himself.

[98tls]

dont even fucking start me. i've been IN A FUCKING COP CAR, while the prick was talking on his phone.

course that cocount cunt thought he was hot shit. little boy, big stick and what.

Did you tell him that at the time?Actually dont bother answering course you didnt far less painful to tap a few keys later.

[Geeen]

My wife showed me this article in the herald about that new police road safety ad with the truck, had to laugh...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11192432

[BoristheBiter]

The truck driver on the phone or not wouldn't have been able to anything else about the car on the left of him anyway!

The design of the road looks the most suspect thing to me from that video, how did that car on left get to be where it was comming from anyway?

The poor bastard in the van on the right (that got smashed) had no chance whatsoever. (in the clip)

Unless they were all speeding because speed (not stupidity) kills doesn't it? Bloody awfull situation to be involved in!

There is nothing wrong with the road, except it should have more lanes.
Truck drivers on the Auckland motorway live by the slogan "might is right" and the car driver didn't agree.

[bogan]

Good on him for giving his side of it.

Saw some funny signs up over the weekend.

Hamilton to the Mt, "Slow down for corners, Just the facts" road safety (someone needs a dictionary)

Desert rd, "100kmhr is not a target" and "we will catch speeders" followed by torrential rain, with everybody (except an underpowered yellow van) trying to do 100.

Be interesting to see the reception an 'ad' with two driver pov pics on it, one having torrential downpour on a windy road and speedo stuck at 103 captioned 'fine', the other a straight road clear skies with the speedo at 108 captioned 'fined'. "Safer communities together".

[nodrog:Me]

when my Dads been Blazing he drives smooth as.

[pritch]

My wife showed me this article in the herald about that new police road safety ad with the truck, had to laugh...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11192432

I didn't laugh, I was annoyed.

The Police spokespersons have been quoting rather creative statistics of late, and now we have what appears to be outright lie. That accident was not caused by the truck driver, in fact the guy that got bowled complimented the driver. Watching the clip, things could have been a whole lot worse had the truck driver not done such a good job.

As pathetic as a dishonest ad is, the official explanation is worse.
Yesterday, police said the footage was released "as a public safety video". "Nobody has been identified in the footage,"

Whatever these people are paid, it's too much. /rant

[Smifffy]

The government and the police lie to the public? That's new.

[haydes55]

My wife showed me this article in the herald about that new police road safety ad with the truck, had to laugh...



http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11192432

Yea had a read of that, the police spokesman said to contact police directly if they have anything to say about the ad campaign.... Might lay a formal complaint if I can.

[Scuba_Steve]

Surely if this talking on a phone is as dangerous as they claim they'd have some real, accurate, factual footage to show rather than trying to pass this BS as the phone's fault.
It's looking a lot like the speed scam to me. Scaremongering & Straw-mans

[RDJ]

A while back a sign on the road between Taupo and Turangi read "You're just an average driver"

Below which someone had spray painted "… on below-average roads"

[RDJ]

Surely if this talking on a phone is as dangerous as they claim they'd have some real, accurate, factual footage to show rather than trying to pass this BS as the phone's fault.

We (the company I work for) have looked at this issue carefully as we need our medical staff to be able to respond to emergency and urgent calls in real-time ASAP, at times while they may, for example, be driving to work / from work. The research 'out there' (and there is a lot of it) does confirm that speaking on a cell phone is distracting, significantly so.

One easy-to-read / understand reference is at http://www.psych.utah.edu/AppliedCog...ab/cdir489.pdf

The 'money quote' is on p. 131

In sum, the data indicate that cell-phone conversations place demands upon the driver that differ qualitatively from those of other auditory/verbal/vocal tasks commonly performed while operating a motor vehicle. Even when cell-phone drivers direct their gaze at objects in the driving environment, they often fail to ‘‘see’’ them because attention has been diverted to the cell- phone conversation.

[BoristheBiter]

That accident was not caused by the truck driver, in fact the guy that got bowled complimented the driver. Watching the clip, things could have been a whole lot worse had the truck driver not done such a good job.

Sorry but I have to disagree with the statement.

You have no facts other than watching a video clip (not that ever stopped anyone on here).
For all you can tell the truck could have closed in on the back of the car (basic driving of trucks in Auckland)
Did a good job? he braked hard after his truck hit a car. (basic reaction while driving)

All this demonstrates how shit the driving on our roads has become.