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Originally Posted by naughtyfalcon
the only real way to lower the death tole on the roads is to stop makeing cars faster and limit them to a maximum 110 kph and if the driver tries to over speed then the engine is knocked down to idle speed till the speed of the vehicle is lowered.
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rubish. 110 km/h is still a fatal speed. cars can loose control at 60 km/h and end up in a very dangerous situation.
the problem is drivers aren't trained well enough to drive in the particular circumstances and the quality control of cars on our roads is horrible.
so a untrained driver in a barely road-legal car with a smuged windscreen doing 100 km/h in the rain - is safter than a trained driver in a well maintained vehicle doing 115km/h in good conditions? of course the second driver would get 'limited' under your idea, the first one wouldn't. i know which car I'd rather be in.
speed limiting cars is another futile attempt like speed cameras. it doesn't address the problem.
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Originally Posted by naughtyfalcon
just on news years eve up here we responded to an mva and the driver of one of the vehicles was still trapped in his ute.it was all related to speed.
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can you please indicate how it was "all related to speed" ? accidents may happen at speeds above the 'speed limit' - it doesn't mean speed was the reason the accident happened.
not to mention, there are many areas where the speed limits are to high (the bribie island turn off in QLD is 80 km/h when it's a 360 degree turn - and the freeway is 100km/h) - but if there was an accident on that segment of road when the driver was doing 75km/h - it wouldn't be attributed to speed would it? because he was under the 'speed limit'. the truth is - taking that corner any faster than 65km/h is dangerous.
forget about speed limits and drive to the conditions.
the NT has areas with no speed limit - yet there were no fatalities.
the Autobahn in Germany is another good example of how drivers can drive to the conditions (and follow simple rules like 'keep left') and exceed speeds of 130km/h safely - and the Autobahn also has the
lowest fatality rate of any roads in Germany!