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>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
If you'd been doing 100km/h you'd have been far up the road by the time the reversing truck was even on the scene.
/Edit: speeding is bad. Not checking to see if someone else posted the same point you want to make but in a funnier way is bad too.

>> ^blankfist:

And five miles below that, you wouldn't hit the truck. The moral of the story? Drive five miles below the speed limit.


Or drive 75 and you'll be past the truck before it even becomes a problem!

>> ^bcglorf:

Speeding by 5mph isn't the problem. It's drivers leaving a margin of error between life and death that's smaller than 5mph. If your driving at 60mph, you need that much more awareness to stay safe than at 55mph, same as 65mph needs that much more than 60mph.
PSA's like this that get all anal over a 5mph difference are the problem. It's drivers who aren't watching closely enough or carefully enough at ANY and all speeds that are the problem.


For starters, this is 60 Kilometres per hour, which is one of the speed limit standards* in Australia, which equates to about 37 mph iirc, so 65 would be speeding in a 60 zone of course. This is not designed to say "Hey, you can't dodge out of the way of the truck", just to inform you of how braking works and what effect extra speed has on it...

So regardless of how much attention you are paying, accidents can happen. If you are driving at the speed limit, you will have a better chance of stopping in time or minimising damage to the car, to you or your passengers, or the person/thing that you hit. This ad isn't to the exclusion of things like driver awareness or leaving proper spacing, it's complimentary.

*The other major standards being 80 and 100.

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>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^Darkhand:
>> ^guymontage:
It's funny that everyone i know who thinks they are so vastly superior in driving skills compared to the average driver all have been in more accidents than the average driver.
These PSA adds might use scare tactics, but they are also based on statistics and physics, and they are right. At high speeds the only thing your "skill" is going to tell you is that if you swerve, you probably will lose control and roll your car.
YOU might think you're fucking Vin Diesel, but physics will let you know in the end.

Could you bring some statistics into this argument? Last I heard you have about a 10% chance rolling over a sedan unless you are doing way over the posted limits.


Statistics are for trannies and queers.

Hey! I love statistics. Oh, wait, that just proves your point.

>> ^Darkhand:

>> ^guymontage:
It's funny that everyone i know who thinks they are so vastly superior in driving skills compared to the average driver all have been in more accidents than the average driver.
These PSA adds might use scare tactics, but they are also based on statistics and physics, and they are right. At high speeds the only thing your "skill" is going to tell you is that if you swerve, you probably will lose control and roll your car.
YOU might think you're fucking Vin Diesel, but physics will let you know in the end.

Could you bring some statistics into this argument? Last I heard you have about a 10% chance rolling over a sedan unless you are doing way over the posted limits.



Statistics are for trannies and queers.

>> ^guymontage:

It's funny that everyone i know who thinks they are so vastly superior in driving skills compared to the average driver all have been in more accidents than the average driver.
These PSA adds might use scare tactics, but they are also based on statistics and physics, and they are right. At high speeds the only thing your "skill" is going to tell you is that if you swerve, you probably will lose control and roll your car.
YOU might think you're fucking Vin Diesel, but physics will let you know in the end.


Could you bring some statistics into this argument? Last I heard you have about a 10% chance rolling over a sedan unless you are doing way over the posted limits.

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*Deja vudeo>> ^kymbos:

This is already on here somewhere. When will someone invent a word for that?

HAHA made me lol
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They don't show the guy going 160kmh who passed in front of the truck. He caused the accident, but was at work by the time the ambulance arrived.

Its weird i don't drive myself but i'm the typ of person thats pretty relaxed and would let people pass im not sure why people in cars go mental about gaining 5 minutes.

Just put the radio on to something chilled out get the car cozy and enjoy the ride it sure beats public transport allot of the time.

I guess people schedule there lives really tight or feal like they haven't hit a goal if they miss something by cupple of minutes.

having said all that if i worked a shitty 9-5 job then id probably just be batshit mental 24,7.

>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^DerHasisttot:
sigh

That is pretty well the same reaction I had to the lame comments. I have always driven like a "grandma" as some say, because I respect the laws of physics and realize the dangerous game you play when you drive at what one can consider, great speed. I drive even more precisely because I have respect for the rules of the road and the notion of consequences.
I think the video was a little too Micheal Bay but the message is pretty clear.

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>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^DerHasisttot:
sigh

That is pretty well the same reaction I had to the lame comments. I have always driven like a "grandma" as some say, because I respect the laws of physics and realize the dangerous game you play when you drive at what one can consider, great speed. I drive even more precisely because I have respect for the rules of the road and the notion of consequences.
I think the video was a little too Micheal Bay but the message is pretty clear.


OMFG! THAT WAS YOU THIS MORNING WASN'T IT??? GTFO OF MY WAY MAN!!! I WAS LATE!!!