Mark Skaife Calls For Speed Limit To Be Lifted To 140Km/H

[Pete A]

I missed the article but I think this is the most important thread for some time.

This is all good stuff and I agree with the lifting of highway speed limits and the reduction of so many speed changes in urban areas etc etc etc. MS driving a FORD was really great! Shows up something doesn't it?

But my main concern is two fold.

1. The drunk drivers. Raising the speed limits mean they are even more dangerous. They can go faster leagally and so the risk is greater because their sub-conscious tells them they can go faster.

2. Half the people with licenses now don't deserve them. I see so many bad drivers every day and this is where the big risk is with anything that is put forward about raising limits. Letting them drive faster is a real problem.

I've driven all over Europe for years on the Autobans and over there these people are brought up with the knowledge of how to drive fast when it is required. The education is the issue. I've been driving at 220+K's on some freeways and even though there's traffic they know what to do. They know that there are fast cars all the time and they are alert to it. Even if they are traveling much slower, they know how to make it work. I NEVER had a problem.

Being able to do a reverse park, know how far to park from a corner, hill start, is 1% of how to drive. Yet they dish out licenses to all and sundry like there's no tomorrow and to many people in Australia who can't even speak English. But that's another matter. I would say that there is only a very small percentage of people in Australia with current licenses that are able to drive at 140kph with any confidence or capability without killing themselves and someone else.

So it's the education, not the speed, and I think that despite what MS reports says, that's the issue.

[Dagabond]

  On 14/06/2010 at 1:08 PM, Pete A said:

So it's the education, not the speed, and I think that despite what MS reports says, that's the issue.

THAT was the whole point of the statement he made...

[Pete A]

Good stuff.

[oldskool]

the article was porb taken from a Sudray Night news report about Mark going to Germany to see why their accident rate is so low in ypung people considering the lucky buggers have autobarns.

on the web page below there is a road ahead video link, saw it sunday night, really interesting but so logical. better roads, better cars, BETTER DRIVER EDUCATION!

Sunday Night Videos - Yahoo!7 TV

speed is not the killer we are being taught it is, just a lack of expierance of it! When I did my driving test only 10 years ago, in a largeish town (geelong) I never got over 55km/h for the entire test! Of the few driving lessons I did have, I didnt go over 70 on any raods, crazy!

Edited 14/06/10 10:43 PM by oldskool

[Dagabond]

The article was ABOUT Mark being on the show Sunday night....

[tab]

I reckon it should be more about driver training rather than just simply jacking up the speed...what do you reckon Dags?

[Dagabond]

What if they made it about driver education and improving the road networks rather than just increasing the speed limit....

[Buf-Phoon]

140 ks wouldn't work in Qld. Farkers sitting in the RH lanes are completly oblivious to what is happening around them let alone behind

[ms700]

well youre the dipsh*t who moved there.......

[possum]

  On 15/06/2010 at 1:42 AM, Buf-Phoon said:

140 ks wouldn't work in Qld. Farkers sitting in the RH lanes are completly oblivious to what is happening around them let alone behind

grrrrrr there is nothing worse! nothing gives me the sh*ts more! and it pisses me off so much that at the soonest opportunity I boost the f*ck out of it!