NZTA ad - They have it wrong?

[unstuck]

Safer communities! ...plus the sound of a V4 750 getting the boot makes children smile (But not there parents??)

Their parents must live down my street.
I thought everyone would appreciate that sweet sound in the very early am.

[willytheekid]

Their parents must live down my street.
I thought everyone would appreciate that sweet sound in the very early am.

Some people just have no friggin taste mate ...at least there's hope for the kiddies (Plus, we is teachin them good road rules regarding - look!, before stepping out in front of the V4 thats getting the boot stuck into it ...all for safer communities!

....I wonder if rastuscat can organise us a fair pay rate

[neels]

Safer communities! ...plus the sound of a V4 750 getting the boot makes children smile (But not there parents??)

Turning the noisy handle on a V anything seems to make the kiddies smile and wave, the mothers look slightly disapproving, and the dads pushing the prams a bit wistful and envious. This makes me happy.

I wonder when the lighty up numbers will become standard equipment for pedestrians, would be helpful to have a multitude of mobile speed check signs wandering around the place.

[willytheekid]

Turning the noisy handle on a V anything seems to make the kiddies smile and wave, the mothers look slightly disapproving, and the dads pushing the prams a bit wistful and envious. This makes me happy.

I wonder when the lighty up numbers will become standard equipment for pedestrians, would be helpful to have a multitude of mobile speed check signs wandering around the place.

At the speeds unstuck usually "entertains" the populace...Thank god for obesity! (The numbers may "just" fit)

-ditto on the V-anything Noise (I Really miss taking my old guzzi through central, and letting the termignoni's test all the window "flex" on main street (My god my Old PhatGirl was loud!...but sooo sexy loud ...and I NEVER had anyone step out in front of me on that! )

Ride safe mate...hope your xmas NY went well

[FJRider]

Not in all instances surely?

Those first three words are frequently heard by plod ... I never saw ...

The next most popular first three is .... I didn't think ... (that would happen)

[unstuck]

Those first three words are frequently heard by plod ... I never saw ...

The next most popular first three is .... I didn't think ... (that would happen)

Watchoo talkin bout willis?

[husaberg]

There are exceptions?

Hitcher, not all people that die in accidents are at fault, For instance when a driver crosses the centreline on a corner and has a head on collision it is rarely the on coming drivers fault, for not being able to react.
It is most often a result of the other driver going too fast around a given corner, while some may argue it is because of the drivers inattention. The prevailing causative factor in most peoples opinion is excessive speed.
Consider how many motorbike riders are killed in head on collision's where some idiot car driver is on the wrong side of the road on a corner.
This is more often a result of the car going too fast to complete a given corner on the correct side rather than just lazy or poor attention. Of course there are exceptions.

[scumdog]

If she'd been doing 60kmh she would have been past that much earlier. Pedestrians should wear fluoro vests. These sorts of ads are a nonsense. Roads are dangerous. Inattention kills people, not speed.

The dumb bimbo that was 'speeding' was also obviously not paying attention...

[neels]

The dumb bimbo that was 'speeding' was also obviously not paying attention...

Well if that's what they meant, they should have shown her drinking her latte, doing her makeup, or checking her hair in the rear vision mirror.

Maybe even add some kids in the back seat so she could turn around and shout at them, while looking for a parking space less than 100m from the school gate, while texting her friend to sort out where they are meeting for coffee after dropping the kids off.

A bit of reality wouldn't go amiss if they want to reduce accidents..

[mossy1200]

If we get paranoid about the possibility of a kid running out whenever we drive down the road sooner or later we will get rear ended as we step on and off the brakes. I struck a most unusual situation some time back where I noticed a tall girl standing in the middle of the road waiting for me to go past then suddenly a shorter girl on the other side of her starts running across the road in front of me and it was real lucky she stopped otherwise I would have definitely hit her with the fault being indirectly the tall girl obscuring my vision of her.

So the barely legal girl with hot legs and short skirt had you looking in the mirror while you ploughed down the 6 year old who was walking on the footpath.

[haydes55]

Imagine if this driver was anal about her speed. Imagine she wasn't speeding..... Imagine instead, that she looked at her speedo as she approached the parked car. She wouldn't have braked at all before the contact.

On a sunny day, I drive in sunglasses. With sunglasses on, my eyes take a good 2-3 seconds to adjust to the speedo's dim light to see where the needle is. So I lift my glasses up to glance at the speedo. Yes my eyes aren't the best, I have worn glasses most of my life, I'm long sighted. But 1-3 seconds of taking my eyes off the road would cause a fuckload more damage than being 5-10 km/h over the limit.

[Berries]

If we get paranoid about the possibility of a kid running out whenever we drive down the road sooner or later we will get rear ended as we step on and off the brakes.

You need to consider the possibility at all times. In the ad the woman didn't even slow down after the first bird ran in front of her. I am not talking braking, just moving your foot from the accelerator to cover the brake just in case. Then she acts all surprised when the other one jumps out. Same with the toddler who ran out of the shop, the driver didn't flinch. You don't need to be constantly hitting the brakes but if you ride/drive around in your own little bubble like the woman in the ad then something like this will happen. The risk of a rear end is nil unless you drive/ride like an idiot.

In this ad the car should have hit the girl running across the road to teach her some road sense and then the driver given the exact same injuries with a crow bar for being unobservant. It might seem a tad harsh but you have to think of the children.

[awayatc]

In this ad the car should have hit the girl running across the road to teach her some road sense and then the driver given the exact same injuries with a crow bar for being unobservant. It might seem a tad harsh but you have to think of the children.

Now we are talking.....

Very tiring to see this mindless endless supply of sticky plasters being handed out by nzta....
why don't we take away the cut throat razorblades....?

ah wait....to easy...?

[Berries]

Now we are talking.....

I did think about reversing back in to chick #1 while she attended to chick #2 because she started it all off.

[R650R]

On a sunny day, I drive in sunglasses. With sunglasses on, my eyes take a good 2-3 seconds to adjust to the speedo's dim light to see where the needle is. So I lift my glasses up to glance at the speedo. Yes my eyes aren't the best, I have worn glasses most of my life, I'm long sighted. But 1-3 seconds of taking my eyes off the road would cause a fuckload more damage than being 5-10 km/h over the limit.

You need to hand your licence in if that's the case, your eyes are fucked.

But I suspect the comment is utter bullshite invented to support your post. I often drive/ride with sunnies on too and never been an issue. If anything it makes it easier on the eyes in the scenario talked about as the transistion across the dynamic range of light will be shorter with sunnies....