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vealesy said:
So you contribute to road rage problems, and then demand more money to cure the people you're making 'mentally ill' in the first place!

Its this stupid Vigilantism that causes accidents.

Can I ask, if you see a motorcycle filtering up the middle of 2 lanes, do you pull out to block them??
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:rolleyes: Yes because having someone slow down because you're tailgating them is going to cause depression and bipolar. Clearly, you have no idea. What a dumb comment.
 

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Um, I actually do drive a lot. I know there are poor drivers out there. Since leaving Maccas I've become a community carer. Tomorrow I will spend 10 hours driving between clients. I'll probably question people's decisions once every 10 or so minutes.

But I've learned that there is no point in letting it get to you. I understand your point, but I highly doubt having someone slowing down in front of you because you're being an arrogant tosspot and tailgating them is going to cause depression or bipolar.

Water off a ducks back.

Hell, that's what I've come to learn in the past few weeks.
 
No, actually, I've been doing it for over a year, not to mention travelling to and from uni, travelling NOR when I was with my ex boyfriend...

I'm not trying to act like an expert. Just simply saying don't make assumptions. I may be young, but I'm not as stupid as most people my age.
 
vealesy said:
If anything, increasing the limits in line with increased training would be moving forwards to reducing aggravation and road rage with a lot of drivers.

We need to decrease the amount of incompetent drivers on the road, whether they are this way through mental illness or untrained or just plain stupid is almost irrelevant.

Slowing everybody down won't make the roads any more safer in my opinion, it makes it worse because people get too comfortable behind the wheel and pay less attention to whats happening around them.

Unfortunately, like in most situations in life these days, the few suicidal idiots are giving people that can handle high speeds a bad reputation.

Speed doesn't kill.

Being ignorant does.
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:thumbsu:

"Speed doesn't kill. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you."

vealesy said:
1. Incorrect, you can't drive 75 in a 100 zone, if there is no congestion it IS illegal. Its simple, up the speed limit, and the ones that cant keep up can stay left as they are supposed to. If people were trained at higher speeds, they would realise it really isn't that difficult. If you haven't driven 140+ how can you tell me its dangerous when theres no traffic around? Its not hard to keep a car in a straight line if you are watching EVERYTHING around you.

2. Yep, as I said previously, a LOT more training, on closed circuits, and regular training sessions and tests. Once every 5 years at an absolute minimum of re-sitting your advanced driver test. You say it isn't practical? How so? Is all the money spent on 'road safety' ie speed cameras and fear campaigns having a practical effect on road traffic accident statistics? Has it ever?

Or would all this be too sensible, and keep money from entering the Law society with fines and criminal charges??
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The government has never been sensible when it comes to road safety. All I see are knee-jerk reactions to statistics caused by a number of young hoons that don't seem to understand that driving is for professionals, not for people who want to mess around. I agree entirely with your advanced driver training concept. Every learner should be able to pass an advanced driver training test before they can get their licence. Getting a driver's licence is too easy these days.

Also, scrap the stupid bans on P-platers. Throw the book at convicted hoons instead of imposing blanket bans on drivers just because they fall into a certain age category.
 
Got pulled over on Monday doing 109 in an 80 zone (honestly thought it was 100 zone). He let me off coz he was having a good day. :D:thumbsu:
 
If someone is on the speed limit and they are being tailgated, and continue to follow the speed limit as per normal (rather than slow down to piss the driver off), they should absolutely not be criticised, but I'm interested in how vealesy would beg to differ because I know you would.

Just on a side note, you say that slowing down in this instance causes road rage, which I don't disagree with, but would unwarranted tailgating in the first place not also be an inducer of road rage with the potential to cause accidents?
 

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Of course it can, but most people that slow down seem oblivious to the empty left hand lane next to them.

There is no need for this Vigilantism to slow people down.

To the people that ride their brakes, have you ever needed to be somewhere in a hurry?

Some people like to get as much done in a day as they can and need to be in several places at once!

Why hold everyone up because you think you're doing the 'right' thing??
 
vealesy said:
Of course it can, but most people that slow down seem oblivious to the empty left hand lane next to them.

There is no need for this Vigilantism to slow people down.

To the people that ride their brakes, have you ever needed to be somewhere in a hurry?

Some people like to get as much done in a day as they can and need to be in several places at once!

Why hold everyone up because you think you're doing the 'right' thing??
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Obvious troll is now obvious.*


*Or is this user actually believing what he is saying?
 
vealesy said:
Some people like to get as much done in a day as they can and need to be in several places at once!

Why hold everyone up because you think you're doing the 'right' thing??
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Some people like to molest children.

Why stop them because you think its the 'right' thing?
 
Power King said:
If someone is on the speed limit and they are being tailgated, and continue to follow the speed limit as per normal (rather than slow down to piss the driver off), they should absolutely not be criticised
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If you're doing the speed limit on the right lane and being tailgated, while there is an empty left lane ... MOVE OVER! Regardless of whether you're doing the speed limit or not, it's not your job to enforce it.

However, if you're already in the left lane and being tailgated while doing the speed limit, the tailgater can **** off.
 
vealesy said:
lol Law.
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Yeah, the thing stable society relies and is built upon.

Not that I've never broken the law before, hell, I usually sit around 10 km/h above the speed limit on highways, but I generally try to avoid breaking it when I can (notwithstanding copyright law which is frankly outdated; there is little point obeying it these days). I certainly don't treat it with the same disdain you seem to.
 

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