🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Ansell wrote:
>
> Well put, Doug.  I agree 100% with you.  I don't wonder why the Queensland
> road toll is so high this year, seeing some of the disgraceful driving around
> the place.  I don't know what is the matter with everyone, but it seems that
> everyone *must* drive flat out and with agro to try and be seen as a good
> driver.  Not to mention having to be infront of everyone *all* the time.  The
> last few weeks, some of the overtaking practices have been incredible.  I
> drove to Kingaroy the other day, I was doing 100km/h, and someone decided to
> start overtaking me at the base of a hill.  Yes, on the base of a hill,
> double white lines coming up and a car coming the other way!!  They got a
> quarter the way along my side and suddenly braked and pulled back in behind
> me.  How the vehicle behind them didn't run into them I don't know.  Then
> they tail gated me for a kilometer.  That's another thing that gets me
> fuming.  One of these days I can see something could happen infront of me
> causing me to brake hard.  Well you know what the consequences will be, but
> what can you do?  But this is only barely scratching the surface, and as far
> as I'm concerned, there needs to be some good bookings.
> 
> I enjoy driving, and it's a pity that it has to be interfered with by these
> so called 'good' drivers.
> It's interesting to see how well the propaganda has done it's job.  People
beleive without doubt that speeding = bad driving.  But speeding is just the
polices best measure of bad driving.  Bad drivers tend to be speeders the 
converse is not necessarilly true.  The examples you cite are all Bad Driving 
and shout be grounds for a 6 month suspension of their license IMHO (longer
in repeat offences).

I find myself 10 or so klm over the limit sometimes in 100 zones maybe even 
80 zones, but in suburbia, or school zones or in the wet I slow down and I
always stay more than 2 seconds behind the next car.  It's just common sense
really.

Cheers
ant :)