Average Speed Tax

Harry_Flashman

cajef wrote: »

Oh and by the way for your information I have had a clean driving licence for over forty years.

Only means you haven't been caught though doesn't it - bears no relation on whther you've broken a speed limit or not.

Scooby_Doo.

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

Only means you haven't been caught though doesn't it - bears no relation on whther you've broken a speed limit or not.

Bit like statistics isn't it? You can read into his statement what you like. However you have no evidence he has broken any speed limits have you?;) He may only have ever crept about the limit by 10% on his speedo so in that case as they read over he maybe one of the few who has never.

Harry_Flashman

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

Bit like statistics isn't it? You can read into his statement what you like. However you have no evidence he has broken any speed limits have you?;) He may only have ever crept about the limit by 10% on his speedo so in that case as they read over he maybe one of the few who has never.

I doubt any driver can honestly say they've never been guilty of speeding.

Scooby_Doo.

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

I doubt any driver can honestly say they've never been guilty of speeding.

I guess all those who passed their test last week, who took all their lessons with a driving school and haven't driven since can.;)

jase1

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

I doubt any driver can honestly say they've never been guilty of speeding.

Indeed not; in my experience most of the "safe", slow drivers are more guilty of continuing to do 40 through rural villages than anyone else.

Speeding at the least safe point; well done that man.

grizzly1911

Whilst speed is a contributory factor in a lot of collisions it is a variable one.

There are a lot of people on the road who may have passed a test at a given point that really shouldn't be out there.

We have all seen them and no doubt we have all had our moments too.

Trouble is cameras don't really address the real problems. They can hopefully filter a small percentage out.

Slow speed, fast speed in itself isn't the issue it is the way the "nut" (sorry couldn't resist) on the wheel/ handelbar, deals with it, that is IMO.

I personally have more time for those new warnings signs, around by us, that flash your speed at you and maybe a smilie in proper black spots.

Harry_Flashman

grizzly1911 wrote: »

I personally have more time for those new warnings signs, around by us, that flash your speed at you and maybe a smilie in proper black spots.

Aye, they're pretty good. The ones that say "Please slow down" are anyway - those that simply say "Slow down" don't work for me. A little politeness ouwldn't hurt would it?

Flyboy152

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

Generally speaking only their own

No, it is not. What about the occupants of car they hit, or the pedestrian they mow down?

But then if it is there own lives they risk, what about the poor beggar who has to scrape them off the tarmac and collect their limbs from fields and bushes, the police officer who is tasked with telling the wife or mother, that they husband or son the said "cheerio" to, earlier that day (or worse, "I hate you"), is dead? What about them?

Harry_Flashman

Flyboy152 wrote: »

No, it is not. What about the occupants of car they hit, or the pedestrian they mow down?

But then if it is there own lives they risk, what about the poor beggar who has to scrape them off the tarmac and collect their limbs from fields and bushes, the police officer who is tasked with telling the wife or mother, that they husband or son the said "cheerio" to, earlier that day (or worse, "I hate you"), is dead? What about them?

You seem to have very conveniently ignored my caveat 'generally'

As to the Copper and the Medic - that's simply a part of the job they are paid to do.

I've know a few bikers and it seems their arguments are almost exclusively with stone walls (which their insurance pays to repair).

Flyboy152

Harry_Flashman wrote: »

You seem to have very conveniently ignored my caveat 'generally'

As to the Copper and the Medic - that's simply a part of the job they are paid to do.

I've know a few bikers and it seems their arguments are almost exclusively with stone walls (which their insurance pays to repair).

And you seem to have conveniently ignored the whole point about the consequences of speeding on the lives of others.

I would much rather the police and medics were employed in doing something far more useful, than scraping some selfish idiot off the tarmac. I am surprised you don't.