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Forum: General Chat Topic: Well now I'm pissed off |
| itschampionman |
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 15:42
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| I was travelling at 44mph in a 30 that used to be a 40. The road in question is not in a built up area, but a straight riad between two fields, heading out of town. The conditions were excellent, and I could have safely reached double that speed without an concerns. I was simply riding along as a s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Eyesight test |
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Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 15:37
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| I hope you're not suggesting you can't read a number plate at 67 feet. I would have thought that was a bare minimum for having good enough eyesight for driving - and one that can be passed with little or no peripheral vision. I'm very concerned about the risks of poor peripheral vision, but I'm not... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Sleep, concentration, arousal, speed and driver performance |
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:06
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Replies: 29
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| Seems like this is supporting the impairment effect of an increase in stress, stress of course increases when the driver increases speed. Hilarious :lol: Stress is more likely to increase as a result of the thought of being late because you are travelling at an unrealistically low speed limit, set ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Calling "itschampionman" |
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:57
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| itschampionman, You're a fairly frequent visitor here, and clearly you have strong pro camera views. Tell us a bit more about yourself. What do you do for a living? Dear Paul Nice of you to single me out (I think) I don't mind sharing my views and am delighted to be able to comment but as far as th... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Manchester: Ex top cop calls cameras stupid |
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 17:27
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| Ex-Chief Inspector hardly signifies "Top Cop" status does it? I think his views are all a little out of touch, consider "When fixed speed cameras were introduced I thought they were a good idea because they were positioned at accident hotspots. But now the situation is becoming stupid. " Cameras ins... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Children In The Car! How Do We Cope! |
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 17:17
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Replies: 9
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Whenever my Grandmother was issued with a new kitten she tied it in a sack and threw it in the river.
Saves the cost of a car seat.  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Sleep, concentration, arousal, speed and driver performance |
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 17:11
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| Here's something to be going on with, from your NASA doc page 66: "The research literature concerning the effects of stress on perceptual-motor performance consistently shows that these conditions tend to degrade performance. The negative effects of stress on perceptual- and psycho-motor tasks have ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Safe Speed Science |
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 16:53
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SafeSpeed wrote: For younger - and less experienced - drivers the correlation between speed and speed setting is strongly negative and highly significant (r=-0.44),
The 0.44 doesn't really make it all that strong a relationship does it? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Sleep, concentration, arousal, speed and driver performance |
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 16:40
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| Have a read of the Roadcraft - The Police Driving Handbook, it has some interesting passages regarding this very subject. They have made their conclusions already and I fear they are/will be diametrically opposite to the conclusions I predict will come from your research. Find the Roadcraft Manual h... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Calling "itschampionman" |
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 16:30
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| itschampionman, You're a fairly frequent visitor here, and clearly you have strong pro camera views. Tell us a bit more about yourself. What do you do for a living? Dear Paul Nice of you to single me out (I think) I don't mind sharing my views and am delighted to be able to comment but as far as th... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: CORNERING - How much do you know? |
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 00:28
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| True Chumps I could scan the page and place it here - but there is a little more to the skill than this. You have to look into and beyond the bend and try to gain advance views beyond the exit point.... what is your exact procedure? I would like you to visualise bends you are familiar with and talk... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Something tricksy? |
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 00:25
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| All traffic on a motorway travells in the same direction (or should do anyway :lol: ) A shunt (running into the back of the vehicle in front, for JT) is bound to be the most common of motorway accidents as well as dual carriageways for that matter. It may surprise you but it happens to be true. Why... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: ABD Press release |
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 00:22
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Replies: 39
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| We combined armed, trafpols and others into one compact unit to give value for money and have more presence as well. Quite useful really having Tone's constituency on our patch as well ..... :wink: :wink: :wink: Seems to be a standard now, I wonder who's idea that was. Finance probably. Of course -... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: ABD Press release |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 23:43
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Replies: 39
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| Please Mad Moggie see my thread on "one foot and 3" shorter" to see how your argument that because something doesn't solve a particular crime it should be scrapped simply doesn't wash. Placing a speed camera on the corner, would not make any differance. Speed cameras do not reduce deaths on our roa... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: CORNERING - How much do you know? |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 23:32
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| Have a look at the police roadcraft handbook it has an interesting and useful technique regarding following the point enclosed by the 2 sides of the road at a bend. Basically as you approach the bend if the point is moving around the bend the speed you are approaching at will allow you to safely neg... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: ABD Press release |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 23:27
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Zamzara wrote: So is 3.3mph immoral? It presents a slightly higher risk of death than 3mph, or so we're told ("speed kills")
Please construct a question worth responding to. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: ABD Press release |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 23:22
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Zamzara wrote: Moving forward is not fundamentally immoral.
Indeed not. Moving forward at a rate that increases the risk to others of death or serious injury most definately is. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 1 foot and 3" shorter |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 23:20
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Replies: 106
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Perhaps he was driving too slow to be fully alert!
You don't need too much advanced driver skills or knowledge to know that the sharper the bend the slower the speed required to negotiate it, no matter what technique you use to increase the rate at which any bend is negotiated. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Oppinions on VAS |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 23:17
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Replies: 12
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DfT produce a very informative Traffic Advisory Leaflet regarding how these signs are to be deployed and what speed the trigger is to be set at.
Takes the mystery out of it all for you. I think it is 01/2003 |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 1 foot and 3" shorter |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 23:12
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| Back to the start of this thread and if the van driver observed the speed limits instead of assuming he was a good enough driver to drive to the conditions the chap at the subject of the discussion would still have his foot. Are you absolutely sure he could have gone through that particular bend at... |
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