HM-106 wrote:in my opinion stick to the speed limit, then you wont have to worry at all about fines.
In my opinion, the speed limits are now out of whack with current technology and vehicle safety.
With your speed Cameron (being at 40kph over speed limit) you could of been up for a $1000 fine + 7 demerits, 5 kph away from getting your car seized for 48hrs aswell. 5kph away from Reckless Driving.
Meh, a lot more attractive than sticking behind this clown or spending a lengthy period on the wrong side of the road.
danny wrote:If it was a safe and reasonable fashion why did you need to do 40 kph over the limit...?
Surely a decent stretch of highway you can overtake the road train, and overtake safely WITHOUT doing 40kph over the limit.
Because spending time either behind this moron kicking up debris, or on the wrong side of the road is more dangerous than just getting in front of him in a hurry. The road surface, the vehicle, the weather and my own ability allowed this, and it was perfectly safe. That's the point I'm trying to drive home, posting some arbitrary god-damn number and saying "This is dangerous, don't do it" is painfully ignorant. You can be dangerous at 20kph if you really want to be, why is it that speed alone is the considered the big factor?
Sitting next to him doing no more than 110kph would have meant spending longer on the wrong side of the road, isn't *that* dangerous, or doesn't that fit in with your misconceptions about good and bad road use?
If you were caught at that speed, would you of expected a caution..?
Expected a caution? Nope. Would have made an interesting day in court though, I've got the spare time and the inclination to fight those kind of things.
Genesis wrote:What we need is the courts and the magistrates to impose those sentences that are given to the Police by the Government.
What we need are road rules that are actually in line with what the vast majority of people want, and react to, not just something that a few mouthpieces bitch about.
Look at this this way, if ten thousand people are "speeding" through a piece of highway every day without incident, does that tell you that ten thousand people are horrible, criminal monsters, or does it perhaps tell you that the speed limit on that piece of highway is too low?
Is common sense really so uncommon that you cannot see the fallacy of all this anti-speeding rhetoric?
**edit: For anybody curious, I've got a clean record, can operate just about anything with wheels, have no dangerous driving recorded against it, no large speeding fines, have never driven a bus through a playground, don't make a habit of acting a fool, would never endanger another person through my actions, etc..etc...
