1km/h speeding tolerance? For safety? Are you serious? First off my doubts to whether Police equipment is this accurate and repeatable is not my concern, nor is the worry of being pulled over and getting what I imagine would be a small ticket. My concern is my safety and the safety of everyone using the roads, the very thing you are supposedly trying to improve. We will be safer traveling slower. Ignoring freak, timing related instances of pure bad luck I agree this would be true and if everyone traveled 10km/h under the speed limit the road toll would more than likely go down. It would also be true to say there would be a road toll of 0 if everyone stayed off the roads… The fact is the majority of people will not travel 10km/h under the speed limit due to this new tolerance; instead they will sit on 100.99km/h with their eyes glued to the speedo. If this exercise really is to reduce the road toll and to make people safer it is fundamentally flawed. You have given people a complex task which the majority struggle with as it is and made the main target their speed which is only one small part of the entire job of safe driving, one that they have to take their eyes and concentration off the road to check and given them a target that is outside the accuracy of the equipment they have anyway. If safe driving is the aim we need to start with training. Someone who is attentive to their surroundings and conditions with a good range of vision extending as far up the road as possible towards the horizon and scanning back toward their own vehicle while traveling within 5-10km/h of the speed limit is going to make the place far safer for themselves and everyone else than the person starring at the bumper of the car 20m in front of them in a daze or worse still someone traveling at 95km/h looking at the speedo inside their car! I know who I’d choose to trust as we travel towards each other at a combined 200km/h separated only by 3m of road and some white paint. We need to bring the skill level of everyone up to a standard that suits the harsh conditions we have in New Zealand. Conditions that make driving in our country an amazing experience that should be cherished not impose rules and penalties on everyone to accommodate the lowest common denominator especially if it takes their attention away from where it should be when they are already at their limit. Common sense isnt all that common.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:07:44 +0000
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