malcolmw wrote:
This is why, as you all know, I am against using mobile phones at all while driving.
Re: 80mph. This is something I may look like I’m doing a U-turn on but, as Damien says in so many words, we’re a bunch of crap drivers.
There’s not a single time I go on a motorway when I don’t see idiots tailgating, and nothing gets up my nose quite like a tailgater, (except a tailgater on a mob).
I’m all in favour of 80mph being the norm and have it fit in with the rest of Europe, but I shudder at the thought of drivers going even faster stuck up my arris. In Germany, by contrast, they enforce keeping a proper distance and the standard of driving over there in all honesty was the best I’ve ever seen anywhere on the planet!
I’m not sure you will
ever educate ‘us lot’ in these good ways though. So my thinking is make it 80 by all means but
not until, and unless, you have some means of curtailing tailgaters. (Preferably Traf Police
). I’ve never once read, seen or heard of this offence being enforced over here, yet it is amongst the most abhorrent traits of bad driving IMO.
I really believe blindly just raising the limit without doing anything else will play right into the hands of BRAKE, who would smugly say “I told you so" the very first time there’s a high speed accident with many KSI.
Sorry, but I think it’s one hec of a big gamble which I don’t think this country is ready for; not with the current attitude and apathy towards tailgating I don’t..