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b4rringt0n (Member Profile)

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How Sweden Nailed Road Safety

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bcglorf says...

Rewatch the video, when it starts the light is green.

-The time on the video is 1 second in when the light turns yellow
-His speed at that time is 54km/h, default speed limit in Canada in urban centers is 50km/h but plenty of stretches are 60km/h, decent odds his 5k under versus over.
-The time on the video when his front wheel hits the stop line is 3 seconds.


From that we can say the time from the light turning yellow, to him reaching the point he needed to stop was 2 seconds. At 50km/h, lets work out the distance. 50 km/h works out to 13.9m/s, so the moment the light went yellow he was maybe 28metres from the stop line.

Australian government says that dry road stopping distance for a family car at 50km is 35m. Now, sometimes a bike can perform better braking, sometimes it can perform worse, but it doesn't seem that it's obvious a biker should be able to stop in 28m the instant a light goes yellow, seems that passing through is not only prudent, but quite likely the only option that physics allows.

https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/driving-safely/stopping-distances/graph

Drachen_Jager said:

Or when you're on a motorcycle actually follow the rules of the damn road?

Yellow means stop if it's safe. He had tons of room to stop and decided to hit the gas instead. LOS doesn't matter, he was the one breaking the law, yellow light is the left turner's chance to turn.

Guy was being a prick and then complains about the other guy's driving.

There's a reason the majority of organ donations come from motorcyclists.

Also, missed this the first time round. He's in an urban area doing 60. So on top of running the light, he's speeding!

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eric3579 says...

With comedy It can be very funny just like most things in life. Maybe you are unaware that Payback is ALWAYS poking fun.

I have a hard time finding suicide funny. A joke about suicide has to be pretty spectacular for me to not feel uncomfortable. We all have OUR things based on OUR experiences. If you want to get bent about someone joking about 'road safety', that's on you. I do however understand why you would feel this way based on your job as a paramedic, and what that has comes with.

Bonus hilarious joke about suicide
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harlequinn said:

Is road safety funny to you?

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harlequinn says...

That's funny. Not referring to your shit joke but your poor ability in making it. Lol. Yeah, not me, or my dog.

Fantomas pointed out the location before I did (hello fellow Australian!).

BTW, I used to be a paramedic. I've scrapped lots of people up off of the road (alive and dead) from this sort of small driver error. This is just one of the reasons I'm happy about the advent of driverless cars.

Is road safety funny to you?

Payback said:

I think your dog is cute.

Probably the most moving, beautiful PSA I've ever seen

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sanderbos says...

I love the fact that it must have been the person in this car who must have put up this video.
"I am going to post this video, to show everybody that I care enough about road safety to go after other idiots who don't follow the rules".

TEDxCopenhagen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet

Kofi says...

I am in the south-east but I guess I am mainly referring to road cyclists and uni students. Plus I am kind of biased as I used to do amateur road/mountain biking and NO ONE didn't wear a helmet but then again they are far more seriously about it than teenagers mucking about after school etc. However, if I see someone riding without a helmet it usually sticks in my head . I used to live in the north and you are probably right. Not that they are necessarily bad kids but they do seem to respect authority less.

In copenhagen where this guy us referring to the roads in the CBD are bike oriented and they don't have helmet rules to encourage everyone to ride. There is far more adequate road safety there where you don't have to compete with cars like normal cities. So while his argument is slightly less invalid in Copenhagen it does not transfer to almost anywhere else.

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Porksandwich says...

The family of 5 I killed last year with my vehicle nonwithstanding, you'll see that for every other day of last year I killed no one. So I believe I am entitled to heavily discounted insurance rates, my license back, and to be let out of prison for my high commitment to road safety. I would also like to resume my job as a school bus driver.

Just doesn't have the same kind of "Well I don't see what could go wrong!" ring to it for most people when you apply it to an individual citizen instead of a corporate citizen.

POV of Motorcycle Versus Deer at 85 MPH

robbersdog49 says...

"The same road at 2am on a weekend with nobody around could be safe for 60mph. That's safe, even though it's over the limit."

Not safe. It's safer, but that's a different thing. In a built up area you don't know what could step out from behind a parked car, or tree or whatever is around. You can claim you can, but you can't. What you're saying is that it's unlikely there's anything there to hit. Which is true. But unlikely is not the same as it being guaranteed. On a race track the whole area is controlled. You can be sure that there aren't any kids about to run out in front of you. You can go as fast as you like and that's fine. You know the surface of the track is prepared and cleaned, and even if it isn't if you come off there are run off zones and safety barriers to stop you safely. But in the real world things are just never this controlled. Never. There could be oil on the road, there could be mud/stones/whatever. If you come off you could end up hitting the guy walking home from the nightclub, or just killing yourself.

You obviously feel that the risk of killing someone is one worth taking. Please don't try to say that driving through a residential area at 60mph in a 30mph limit isn't risking killing someone because it is. Every time I get in my car, or you get on your bike we risk killing someone, be it ourselves or someone else. Driving or riding over the speed limit drastically increases the chance of any collision being deadly. This guy in the video hits the dear, which would have happened to the best of riders. This forces him onto the wrong side of the road, which again could have happened to any rider. He's just lucky there isn't anyone coming the other way. This has nothing to do with skill. It's luck. I don't like that you are choosing to increase the chances of killing someone else by speeding, and advocating speeding. Like it or not this is the case.

It seems I'm not the only one thinking this way. You're obviously not going to win anyone over to your 'speed is safe' ideas. Speed kills. As for the 60 in a 30 zone thing, if you hit someone at 30mph they have around an 80% chance of survival. If you hit them at 40mph they have around an 80% chance of death. (Figures from UK road safety campaign)

You can choose to ride how you like. You can fool yourself into thinking the world is predictable and easy. So far you've been right, but you're one person, statistically completely unimportant. The fact that you've gotten away with it is no argument at all. Think what you like, but the facts simply don't support your view.

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rougy says...

Sorry, Timtoner, but peer pressure has a lot to do with it:

Authorities should restrict the number and age of passengers carried by P-plate drivers as part of an overhaul of the state's driving licensing system, road safety experts say.

They say young, inexperienced motorists were more likely to crash because they tried to impress their peers by driving fast and recklessly.



(source)

"... most people, when they sense a collision is imminent, jam on the brakes."


That is absolutely true, but his advice was bullshit.

However, I would venture to say that most race car drivers would agree with your friend.


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