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| Thread ID: 110208 | 2010-06-07 19:40:00 | Lowest Road Toll in 50 Years! Good Policing or Good Luck? | xyz823 (13649) | PC World Chat |
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| 1107857 | 2010-06-11 06:03:00 | These quoted figures are thinking distance + actual braking distance. Unless you can split the 2 elements it's hard to compare different claims. If you check the time it takes a truck to stop you wouldn't want to be trying to stop quickly if there's one behind you. Minimum stopping distance qouted not the maximum stopping distance and where for a car not a truck. And if you did have to stop with a truck following you then the chances are the truck driver will already be on the pedal and your in the **** anyways for not allowing sufficant distance in front of you to allow for the tailgating truck. although you have just admitted that the average Kiwi driver does need more time to think before they react :thanks |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1107858 | 2010-06-11 07:43:00 | There have been plenty of accidents caused by 'redirected attention' towards pretty girls and boobs! We've banned cellphones because they distract, so... So shouldn't we ban the pretty and enfoce neck to ankle clothing rules for any female using the footpath? Maybe the Bretheren have the answer to our transport prayers! |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1107859 | 2010-06-11 07:53:00 | And if you did have to stop with a truck following you then the chances are the truck driver will already be on the pedal and your in the **** anyways for not allowing sufficant distance in front of you to allow for the tailgating truck . although you have just admitted that the average Kiwi driver does need more time to think before they react :thanks Speak for yourself :D and I've admitted nothing . |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1107860 | 2010-06-11 08:17:00 | Speak for yourself :D and I've admitted nothing. Oh I dont know you got your licence given to you by an agency in one of the countrys with the worst road statistics correct? |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1107861 | 2010-06-11 13:46:00 | Most sources I can find use 50-60 metres unless you include expensive sports cars. Alot less than 98 metres :) maybe it's time the police update their information, or is there a reason to leave it like it is. |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1107862 | 2010-06-11 22:01:00 | Alot less than 98 metres :) maybe it's time the police update their information, or is there a reason to leave it like it is. Any figure longer than ~60m includes some reaction time and some like the 98m stretch reaction time into "thinking time" ie the time to stop looking at something else, see the problem ahead and then realize that brakes are needed. Not everyone thinks ahead. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1107863 | 2010-06-11 23:17:00 | Alot less than 98 metres :) maybe it's time the police update their information, or is there a reason to leave it like it is. You in the UK right? Highway code on the back of it (or was) states the stopping distance at variuos speeds! 60mph relates within 2kph of 100kph and it gives a stopping distance of 240ft which converts to 73 metres. The qouted 98 metres used by Champion of the Bay of Plenty Police District equates to 321feet just over the stoping distance of 315ft at 70mph. In otherr words he gave the stoping distance for a speed of approx 115kph. Did the newspaper reporter misqoute him? The leaflet I have also states "the stopping distances are for a car with good brakes, tyres and an alert driver, on a good, dry road surface." it continues with "These are the shortest distances, these gratly increase with wet and slippery roads, poor brakes and tyes and Tired Drivers" |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1107864 | 2010-06-11 23:19:00 | Any figure longer than ~60m includes some reaction time and some like the 98m stretch reaction time into "thinking time" ie the time to stop looking at something else, see the problem ahead and then realize that brakes are needed. Not everyone thinks ahead. So what part is missing from the Kiwi driving then? Alert Drivers:D |
coldfront (15814) | ||
| 1107865 | 2010-06-11 23:34:00 | So what part is missing from the Kiwi driving then? Alert Drivers:D Stop harping on Kiwi drivers, it's universal thing. No official should be quoting absolute minimum distances with no room for error. This isn't an approaching the hairpin watching the distance markers thing. The Kiwi crime is being inconsiderate, not letting other cars pass or merge or lane change. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1107866 | 2010-06-11 23:50:00 | Stop harping on Kiwi drivers, it's universal thing. No official should be quoting absolute minimum distances with no room for error. This isn't an approaching the hairpin watching the distance markers thing. The Kiwi crime is being inconsiderate, not letting other cars pass or merge or lane change. As we are driving in New Zealand then it is a Kiwi thing ;) You are right though it is to do with driver education or lack of it, it is a universal thing that a New Zealand issued Driving Licence does not hold the same value as other parts of the world. You can have a HT licence in NZ but if you go to the UK that HT componant is invalid yet someone from the UK can exchange with relative ease a HT licence to an NZ one. |
coldfront (15814) | ||
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