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Originally Posted by 2011G6E
While there are fallible human beings in charge of motor vehicles, there will always...always...be accidents. The absolute best you can hope for is to minimise them, and in most industrial areas, minimising accidents means increased training of staff.
But if you mention "driver training" it's all too hard...
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very true - the problem is that the government's idea of minimising is slowing you down (i realise that not many of us agree they care about anything but money, but they official line is obviously speed kills). the problem is the speed you do is only the secondary problem. the primary problem is the impact itself, but they do not seem to want to do anything to stop them or even lessen the amount of impacts. absolute idiots get licenses - the international scheme is pathetic and yet they do nothing to lift the competance level
in the government's eyes, as long as you do not speed, you are a good driver and therefore we will put more cameras in place to hopefully catch you out and make you into a bad driver, which of course means with all of these bad drivers on the roads, we need more speed cameras to catch them and teach them a lesson etc. etc. etc.
we see the "facts" about how much longer it will take you to stop when doing 5kph more - and yet the braking distance is absolutely irrelevant if the idiot driving is so unaware of their surroundings, they do not hit the brake pedal anyway. the whole system is a joke and people are dying because the government only cares about revenue. i believe they do not want accidents to stop happening. as long as it is no one they care about, the money they get from constant fining of motorists totally outways any death to a nameless, faceless person