Cars & Transportation Speeding

[Echo Bravo]

He goes for Geelong

And you go for Fremantle. As do I. Relevance?

 

[shibz_1989]

Breaking the law...

 

[yeah_nah]

And you go for Fremantle. As do I. Relevance?

Yeah this.

If you want some shit fight go to bay 13 with the rest of the flogs

 

[shibz_1989]

Oh my god, take a joke!

 

[Asgardian]

Wow, a few weeks of driving and your an expert.

I used to go over half of SA when servicing the insurance needs of farmers, I've done your share of driving as well as mine

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.

Yep, keeping to the left is a road rule, so is the speed limit, I try my best to do both

If I'm being tailgated I don't ride the break, I just apply less pressure to the accelerator, works for me

 

[Skeeta Olly]

If you're doing the speed limit on the right lane and being tailgated, while there is an empty left lane ... MOVE OVER!

If you want to break the law, move to the left, not the bloke doing the speed limit.

 

[vealesy]

Um, no skeeta, us speeders are supposed to move to the right, its dangerous to overtake on the left, blind spot is bigger and its harder to hear motorbikes!

If you drive like your Nanna, stay left for Gods sake!

 

[Skeeta Olly]

Dangerous to speed.

 

[vealesy]

If you have complete control of your vehicle, how so?

 

[Skeeta Olly]

Is that a condition on your license that lets you speed or something?

Police Officer: Why were you speeding?
You: Don't worry, I have complete control of my vehicle.

 

[Kahuna]

Country folk should be able to go faster as they know how to drive at the speeds, city folk that never drive on highways should stick doing your 100 in the right hand lane.

 

[Echo Bravo]

Country folk should be able to go faster as they know how to drive at the speeds, city folk that never drive on highways should stick doing your 100 in the right hand lane.

Also, country folk would have been driving since they were knee high to a grasshopper, first in Pa's tractor and then driving the ute around roo huntin' and pig stickin'.

 

[vealesy]

Is that a condition on your license that lets you speed or something?

Police Officer: Why were you speeding?
You: Don't worry, I have complete control of my vehicle.

Safety and legality are not related.

 

[WheatsWorshipper]

Country folk should be able to go faster as they know how to drive at the speeds, city folk that never drive on highways should stick doing your 100 in the right hand lane.

Also, country folk would have been driving since they were knee high to a grasshopper, first in Pa's tractor and then driving the ute around roo huntin' and pig stickin'.

True but as a result they tend to have a more laidback attitude and in most cases are more reckless when they drive

 

[Kipz]

Oh my god, take a joke!

Try telling a funny one

 

[centrelink1]

Also, country folk would have been driving since they were knee high to a grasshopper, first in Pa's tractor and then driving the ute around roo huntin' and pig stickin'.

 

[Asgardian]

Country folk should be able to go faster as they know how to drive at the speeds, city folk that never drive on highways should stick doing your 100 in the right hand lane.

Would you like to know a fact about country drivers?

I was an area manager with an insurance company that serviced the farmers federation, we had a very large slice of the farming insurance market.

We did an analysis of motor vehicle claims, broke it down using several parameters, one set of figures is relevant to your post, there was no appreciable difference in the %'s of motor vehicle claims based on the postcodes of the policies

That is per every 1000 vehicles insured, the number of claims was roughly equal for suburban vehicles vs. country vehicles.

The major difference we found was that the average payout per claim was higher for country based vehicles than it was for suburban.

So the old wives tale about country kids being better drivers is basically just that, an urban myth

 

[Lazarus]

This is lulz reading vealesy trying to validate his decision to consistently and dangerously break the law

 

[Kahuna]

Would you like to know a fact about country drivers?

I was an area manager with an insurance company that serviced the farmers federation, we had a very large slice of the farming insurance market.

We did an analysis of motor vehicle claims, broke it down using several parameters, one set of figures is relevant to your post, there was no appreciable difference in the %'s of motor vehicle claims based on the postcodes of the policies

That is per every 1000 vehicles insured, the number of claims was roughly equal for suburban vehicles vs. country vehicles.

The major difference we found was that the average payout per claim was higher for country based vehicles than it was for suburban.

So the old wives tale about country kids being better drivers is basically just that, an urban myth

Go into further analysis, what type of cars, what was the road condition? I would predict a majority of claims were form accidents on dirt roads. We are talking about speeding on the highway here. Off course the payout is going to be higher for the country considering in the city little dents and nudges are likely to be claimed.

 

[Asgardian]

The majority of dirt road accidents were single vehicle events due to speed (it was surprising the high number of rollovers included in that figure)

The majority of highway accidents were due to fatigue

It does not matter a damn if your were a city boy or a country boy, fatigue on the highways gets everyone

 

[centrelink1]

Kahuna, I'm hoping this is strictly hypothetical. You aren't seriously advocating differing laws here, are you?

 

[Kahuna]

The majority of dirt road accidents were single vehicle events due to speed (it was surprising the high number of rollovers included in that figure)

The majority of highway accidents were due to fatigue

It does not matter a damn if your were a city boy or a country boy, fatigue on the highways gets everyone

Speeding on the dirt is just stupidity.

Fatigue will obviously get to you but some of the dumb driving habits I have seen that have nearly caused accidents were not due to fatigue. I would say more impatience would be a high cause of accidents also.

 

[Skeeta Olly]

...as would breaking the law.

 

[Asgardian]

Speeding on the dirt is just stupidity.

That's what the country boys and girls do, they are that confident they are blasé, they speed, they lose control

The figures do not lie.

Fatigue will obviously get to you but some of the dumb driving habits I have seen that have nearly caused accidents were not due to fatigue. I would say more impatience would be a high cause of accidents also.

Again the figures do not lie, you're having a bit of a guess based on your own experience, I was privy to the actuarial facts and figures

 

[carltonblue]

That's what the country boys and girls do, they are that confident they are blasé, they speed, they lose control

The figures do not lie.



Again the figures do not lie, you're having a bit of a guess based on your own experience, I was privy to the actuarial facts and figures

So, if country drivers are blase and speed thus crash does that mean that if they were concentrating and went the speed limit they wouldnt crash?

Whereas city drivers may be concentrating and going the speed limit when they crash.

Therefore country drivers are still better than city drivers.

So you just lost your own reasoning of why you think there isnt much between city and country drivers.