http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/ Autoblog Comments for http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 8:43AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 9:08AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/
People don't die "because of speeding". People die because they hit stuff while speeding. Let's make it illegal to hit stuff instead.

10mph over the limit in an F250 or Tahoe is not the same as 10mph over in a Falcon or Corvette. They can stop faster and handle better at speed. Then you take into account the drivers experience and reaction time. It may not be possible to make a law like this, but the reason speed limits are traditionally enforced with a cushion is that one speed limit doesn't cut it for every driver on the road.
If I were a cop, I'd pull over the guy doing 80 towing a horse trailer before the guy doing 80 in a sports car. ]]>Jun 27th 2007 9:14AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/
The whole "Oh I am in a sports car that means I can handle better and stop faster" bullshit is what gets so many sports cars wrapped around trees and other motorists.

There is a wonderful place where you can open up your car and test all the limits of it's handling and it's called a RaceTrack! The nice thing about the race-track is there aren't any pesky trees or curbs or pedestrians and you don't have to worry about road irregularities or some other crazy person doing something, well, crazy. Also when you spin out and wreck some part of your car you have no-one to blame but yourself rather than trying to pin it on the old lady who deigned to make a lane change when you were trying to pass on the right doing 80 in a 55.

The ad got it wrong. It's not the penis of the careless speeder that's small, it's the brain.]]>Jun 27th 2007 9:41AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/I'm not sure I understand your argument. Are you saying that all vehicles handle and stop equally? Or that I am personally an irresponsible driver who runs into old ladies? Because I don't understand either argument.

Let me ask you this. Would you drive an 18-wheeler the same way as your daily driver? Because I would drive it more slowly and carefully. If you think one standard fits all, would you accelerate and lane change the same way in these two vehicles?]]>Jun 27th 2007 10:13AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/
Thinking that you get to speed or weave more than other vehicles because you drive a sports car is a jackass' opinion that will get people hurt. This is because everyone else is expecting you to follow the rules of the road and not try to get around them for whatever dumb reason you can cook up (and "because I feel my car is physically capable of it" is the worst of the dumb reasons).

I retain my original point. If you have a gloriously sporty vehicle and think it can do all sorts of amazing performance feats, you take it to the race-track to prove it to yourself. You don't use it as an excuse to drive like an ass.]]>Jun 27th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 9:26AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/]]>Jun 27th 2007 9:29AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/
The Think UK series of ads are much better and don't resort to crude humour.]]>Jun 27th 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/
"if you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot" to which the response was "but if you make it home, you're a *censored* legend" lol

I believe these ads are alot more effective than the British ads. The UK Police even admit that the message isn't getting through. With ads like "there he is, there he is, there he is" in a monotonous tone followed by a car crash isn't as effective as "check left and right and then check your friggin blindspot."


]]>Jun 27th 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/From www.trollhattansaab.net/archives/2007/06/saab_oz_were_sl.html
"The Saab car company is set to mount a protest against new rules that would see probationary drivers fined $1100 and awarded three demerit points for driving one of the Swedish cars.
From Sunday night, VicRoads will introduce a new definition of high-powered cars that will prevent newly licensed drivers from driving a car with a V8 engine or a car with a turbocharger or supercharger."

As someone named zippy said in comments: "You cant drive a 150bhp turbocharged 4-cylinder 1.8t 9-3 but a 255bhp 6-cylinder BMW330i is ok?"]]>Jun 27th 2007 11:12AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/
However, I do like the focus on the urban idiocy. The same twit that can't negotiate the offramp while on the cell phone is generally the same on speeding in school zones, running crosswalks, and gunning it in a parking lot when they see a car trying to back out from between two vans. What we really need here is a reasonable speed limit for the highways - setting them ridiculously low just means that no one, including the grannies running up my tailpipe in my neighbourhood, has any respect for a speed limit sign - they water down the message. I like a brisk pace with plenty of space bewteen cars on the highway, but can't stand the idiots sppeding in schoolzones or down local neighbourhood streets with kids and dogs.]]>Jun 27th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 12:29PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/Jun 27th 2007 7:55PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/27/aussie-speeding-psa-hits-below-the-belt/
But every one of us that drives with friends on other cars always have the need to prove not that you are better but faster.

I just donpt know which is the way to stop accidents... an advertisement or a commercial is fine, but obviously not enough]]>Jun 30th 2007 3:33PM