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29-06-2007, 07:36 PM | #61 | ||
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As 4Vman said i dont have the answers to fix it its almost impossible to separate the good from bad but there has to be a better way all i ask is rather then assuming and judging take them all on a case by case basis as theres nothing worse then not having a second chance.
Thank you and good night . Vote for me for president. In reply to the above post everybody's been pushing for driver training but speed cameras are cheaper. On a side note im not a p-plater im a fully licensed driver. |
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29-06-2007, 07:36 PM | #62 | |||
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I'm 20 I'm a p plater Been driving for nearly 4 years and i have never caused an accident or crashed into anyone...the only accident i have had was when A FULLY LICENSED DRIVER was doing a burnout on hindly st xmas eve 06 in his mums little charade & didnt look when he took off and plowed into the back of my car.... So...QUICK RUN FOR THE HILLS a p plater was involved in an accident and it wasnt their fault! Last edited by MeLLy; 29-06-2007 at 07:46 PM. |
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29-06-2007, 07:36 PM | #63 | ||
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i see ALOT of 16-25yr olds driving like absolute spastics, females included, im 18 (although off my p's, NT), i have been racing karts for 8 yrs, and now race tarmac rallies, i dont find the need to drive like these ****heads on the streets, but what is there to do? i think these laws are a good thing, but can be unfair to others
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29-06-2007, 07:38 PM | #64 | |||
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"All comers" including at least one F6 Typhoon, some XR6Ts and various other vehicles driven by much older and presumably more experienced drivers? RE: News article and mention of "Ford Turbo". They use turbo to suggest "hoon" if it was a BA Fairmont with the 3 valver it would have been "Ford V8" and if it was an N/A XR6 they would have written "High powered 6 cylinder". You can't win - headlines are designed to attract attention and sell copies, and stuff the after effects. |
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29-06-2007, 07:39 PM | #66 | |||
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29-06-2007, 08:11 PM | #69 | ||
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I got sick of worrying about the media's perception on my "whatever group im classified in" and all the BS on the road, and joined the Defence Force. Now I have ALOT bigger things to worry about... lol.
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One of those said young men happened to PWN the lot of them, therefore doing a much better job at "attempting" than anyone else there, in a much cheaper and much much less capable vehicle. I've seen some footage too. I'll be at the next one, no worries |
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29-06-2007, 08:39 PM | #71 | |||
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29-06-2007, 10:22 PM | #73 | |||
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same goes with the other side too... neither sides are perfect drivers !!! (I think all that goes with out saying...) |
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29-06-2007, 10:35 PM | #74 | |||
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One isolated largely irrelevant example doesnt make the entire demographic perfect though either....
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29-06-2007, 10:44 PM | #75 | |||
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30-06-2007, 03:46 AM | #76 | |||
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30-06-2007, 11:16 AM | #78 | ||
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I do probably 3500 to 4500km per week, and the group of road users i get the hardest time from certainly arent the P platers. They are the older ones, who should know better.
Many older drivers are becoming lax with their attitudes as a lot of the focus on blame and enforcement is targeting specific road user groups. P platers and those with high performance cars. Some drivers are under an illusion that because they arent dragging anyone from the lights, spinning their wheels, getting sideways or groosly exceeding the speed limit that they are safer drivers. Just as many dangerous situations occurr on the roads through acts that seem on the surface to be far less serious and are less obvious. See a lot more of what's going on around you sitting up in a truck and some of the stuff that goes on in cars is scary. If i ever see anyone driving and listening to their mp3 player with headphones, expect to have the cord wrapped around your neck and pulled tight. I've seen a few near misses from morons doing this that i'd care to forget. I dont care what anyone says, i have more headaches from women texting while driving and wandering all over their lane, or varying their speed between 70 and 100 on the highway because texting and driving is a juggling act they should not be attempting. The worst of all the phone junkies are the women because more often than not they're doing it with kids in the car, and so out of control and all over the road its not funny. Almost every time i see a car unexplainably wandering or miss a stop sign or cutting people off, its someone on the phone. |
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30-06-2007, 11:36 AM | #79 | |||
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30-06-2007, 11:41 AM | #80 | ||
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4Vman - Flappist did not make a perfectly valid observation, that was what I was trying to point out.
He said that he saw young drivers on the weekend doing a chit job of steering cars around a skidpan. Considering one of said chit drivers happened to be better than everyone else in a measured timed event, in a far inferior vehicle, what does that say about the driving skills of the rest of the people there? For some reason the "People in glass houses" proverb springs to mind in that particular example. I am in no way denying that young people smash cars up good and proper a lot more often than their older counterparts, just wanted to point out that the particular example Flappist chose to illustrate in his post was a poor one. In my personal observation, young people do drive a lot more agressively than older ones, and take more risks (esp late at night when there isn't much traffic and the cops are elsewhere) but when it comes to driving in traffic or on the freeway etc, there isn't any difference. 90% of road users tailgate, a very large proportion absolutely SUCK at merging, a lot of them are horrendous at giving way, and a lot are just plain rude. Unfortunately, I can't see any surefire way of curtailing this behavior - one can't help those who refuse to help themselves. Some suggestions I could offer in an attempt to improve road safety: 1: At least two one hour theory classes required to be attended before the learner driver is allowed to take the driving test. These sessions would include braking distances and what affects them, ie, going uphill, downhill, road conditions, tyre condition etc, the importance of correct tyre pressure for safety and tyre life, how to correctly estimate follow distances, the theory of vehicle dynamics (weight transfer under braking, acceleration and cornering) and how to use that information to drive smoothly and increase fuel consumtion etc. Also how to merge correctly and the definition of "giving way". 2: Line markings on the road at certain distances apart, depending on speed limit, and an ad campaign explaining their use - to remine people to keep a safe distance apart, ie, the car in front of you should pass over a line marking at the same time that you pass over one, and the lines are set the correct distance apart for the given speed limit. I can't see an easy/cheap way to stop people giving their cars heaps on the road though - you can't police all roads all the time, and the temptation to open the taps when it's late at night and there isn't anybody around is hard to ignore. I'd love to see more race tracks (even very small ones, equivalent to a large gokart track) that people could go and give their cars hell. Small track = lower speed so less danger, but you can still blaze the tyres as much as you like, and get it all out of your system. Off the top of my head, anyway... |
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30-06-2007, 12:52 PM | #81 | ||
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It amazes me how evryone bags the younger generation for there driving when there is a crash involving young drivers. There is good and bad in all age groups, how often do you get stuck behind the older age drivers that sit well under the speed limits making the traffic bank up then other drivers get frustrated and this can lead to problems.
Classic scenario here in SA on the long weekends the amount of people that leave Adelaide to go down the Yourke Peninsula is amazing, the traffic banks up in Pt Wakefield for several Kms and you get these drivers that sit on 70/80kmhr in a 110kmhr zone and this causes some absolutely crazy overtakings by all ages and a lot of people get killed on that road, they even have a big digital sign telling you how many days since the last fatality. When the accident is caused during the overtaking by the cars that have been stuck behind this car doing 70kmhr in a 110kmhr zone for all this time, to me its the slow cars fault and if you cant drive at the speed limit or close to it get of the road its as simple as that. Adelaide to Victor Harbour,Yankalila,Myponga road is said to be the worst in the state for fatalities, it is a 100kmhr speed limit, i have to drive that road quite often as my sister lives down there. This is the worst road for people not being able to drive to the speed limit, to me this is just as bad as speeding because of the frustration it causes to the traffic behind, doing 70kmhr in 100kmhr zone 80kmhr corner ahead so they slow down, these roads dont have bugger all overtaking areas so once your behind thats it your there until the next town. And they think they have the right to do this and your in the wrong and traviling to fast if your behind. Next time you see a accident have a look at the driver of the closest car to the crash or the first car that is driving away totaly unaware that there has even been a crash and i bet you its "OLD". There is no excuse for stupidity though. |
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30-06-2007, 04:37 PM | #82 | ||
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What's everyone so upset about - It'll Buff out
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30-06-2007, 04:57 PM | #83 | ||
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Younger people may have a higher crash rate but they don't say anything about who is actually on the road more...I myself drive an average of about 800-1000km per week and I would place money on the assumption that younger people are in there cars more then anyone else. 77 year old Grandma might drive once every second month to collect her groceries from Aldi while only having 6 near misses and big fat mum from down the street only drives 10 minutes a day to drop the kids off to school and get some maccas for lunch before jerry starts while at the same time texting her offside BF in her 60k prado. its ok she can park in the centre of two car parks, its not like she isn't driving a 4wd.
I have had one serious car crash and almost half a dozen near misses, but all of these have been over the space of well over 100 000km, 95% of the time It was the other persons fault How can motor vehicle statistics mean anything when its highly probable that two people from two different age brackets don't do the same amout of driving ? |
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30-06-2007, 05:12 PM | #84 | |||
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30-06-2007, 05:34 PM | #85 | |||
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01-07-2007, 07:32 PM | #86 | ||
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Maybe that XR was the one used in the "pinkie finger" RTA ad, and they just didn't show what happened after the BA did the skid?
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01-07-2007, 08:55 PM | #87 | ||
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here in sydney alot of schools do driver education days. ive done it liek 3 times now, we have discussions about overtaking precautions, stop signs etc etc.. all the boring usual stuff.. we get a talk to from some brain damaged people(one guy that lost it at 160 in a commo(figures, the dumbass bogan-) and we get a braking test.. first we watch a Honda MRV brake from 40-0.. then 60-0.. then 80-0 from a specified point and each stopping distance marked with a cone.. then we get in the car when they do it(albeit the car is a 4wd and fully loaded with 5 people)..
what we DO need is harder tests and compulsory advanced driver training.. but it seems to me that those 4 guys in the XR6T were actually just ****ed off with current fuel prices and decided to give Shell one on the chin :P
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