Qld is having a shocker for the road toll this year and Tvlle is at least as bad as the rest of the state.
Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and expecting a different result. With this in mind our authorities are overdue to examine the effectiveness of our high tech, high profit policing which passes (fraudlently, IMHO) as accident prevention. It worked in the last decades of the 20th C, but that was from a low base. We are now past the point of diminished returns. It should also be remembered that during the '70s - '90s the roads were improving (more than most give credit for) and primary and secondary safety of our cars was improving dramatically. And the groundswell of attitudanal change to drink driving should never be underestimated. You would need to be a "bloke" my age to know the terrible attitude we had towards drink driving in the '60s - '70s. That, in spite of regularly burying our mates.
What I notice is a higher levil of extreme, even criminal behaviour with so many accidents today and some effort should be made to get these people off the road for long periods. Of course some, in good Darwinian fashion, take themselves out permanantly. We should not mourn their passing and the death should be classed as stupidity, not a road accident.
Thommo, enjoying the view from his high horse.
Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and expecting a different result. With this in mind our authorities are overdue to examine the effectiveness of our high tech, high profit policing which passes (fraudlently, IMHO) as accident prevention. It worked in the last decades of the 20th C, but that was from a low base. We are now past the point of diminished returns. It should also be remembered that during the '70s - '90s the roads were improving (more than most give credit for) and primary and secondary safety of our cars was improving dramatically. And the groundswell of attitudanal change to drink driving should never be underestimated. You would need to be a "bloke" my age to know the terrible attitude we had towards drink driving in the '60s - '70s. That, in spite of regularly burying our mates.
What I notice is a higher levil of extreme, even criminal behaviour with so many accidents today and some effort should be made to get these people off the road for long periods. Of course some, in good Darwinian fashion, take themselves out permanantly. We should not mourn their passing and the death should be classed as stupidity, not a road accident.
Thommo, enjoying the view from his high horse.