Not if you could plant the accelerator to override, with the data centrally recorded in these scenarios including dash cam footage from the mandatory dash cam.
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I am fed up, especially at night, doing maybe 35 in a 30 (how dare I) for some muppet to settle a few feet from my rear bumper. So yeah, mandatory limiters, mandatory dash cams, bring it on.
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Play "fastest foot first"....
You jam on the brakes and see what happens!
You jam on the brakes and see what happens!
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what happens is an accident and getting prosecuted for driving without due care, if they have a dash cam. Given that you deliberately caused the crash, your insurance wont be too happy either.
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It's night time and a deer runs out across you.
I did this once years back in a town centre when a wifey was tailgating me to the extreme. I applied the brakes quite heavily. She evidently just about poo'd herself, reacted just in time and of course I got all the nasty looks of the day.
This is how thick the average tailgater is.
But you won't get prosecuted if the footage proves your sudden acceleration was required and justified.
Ok, if implementing tech on individual vehicles is too arduous, we should pile billions into having average speed cams almost everywhere.
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this really isn't a good attitude to have when behind the wheel.
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what would cause accidents ? drivers having to keep to speed limits ?
in by best Jeremy Clarkson voice - I Just want to drive fast
I'll tell you what attitude isn't good to have behind the wheel. Driving at (more than just slightly) higher speeds than the designated limit because you think it's safe. Driving a few feet behind someone's rear bumper (sometimes in all weathers and at higher speeds) because you either feel you have some god given right to try and make folk go faster and/or you're too thick to realise what might happen if the vehicle you're tailgating has to stop suddenly.
etc etc.
Those are bad attitudes behind the wheel
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Indeed they are. But you are in control of exactly one vehicle when on the road and the moment you start trying to control others is the moment your own driving falls below the standard required.
@Munroast - two objects on a collision course have 3 options to avoid a crash. Slow down, speed up, change course. I'm sure there have been occasions when another vehicle starts moving towards you (e.g. a truck) because he either hasn't looked or didn't keep track of you in his blind spot and I'm sure you've popped a bit of speed on to get out of his way.
@Munroast - two objects on a collision course have 3 options to avoid a crash. Slow down, speed up, change course. I'm sure there have been occasions when another vehicle starts moving towards you (e.g. a truck) because he either hasn't looked or didn't keep track of you in his blind spot and I'm sure you've popped a bit of speed on to get out of his way.
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problem is this argument always seems to be used by those who like to drive FAST - I need to drive FAST to avoid crashing.
but do note that all (or at least 99.9%) of accidents have less serious outcomes if done slower.
Truth be told (you wouldn't think it from my posts in this thread) I'm not actually pro things like technically implemented speed limits, enforced distance between vehicles and so on. However, what gets my goat is this. Because none of these things are in place, folk are obviously free to do whatever they like. So when you're going about your day to day business from a driving perspective, generally staying within the law and trying your best to be a decent driver, you're surrounded by folk that ignore all of this to varying degrees.
Years ago, they made a street I was living in a 20 zone and installed speed bumps. We actually had a set of them directly outside our house. This was quite a busy residential road, cars parked both sides, very built-up, bus route and used as a rat run.
This meant diddly squat to a fairly high percentage of drivers. You'd still see them flying up and down the road, some excessively so. The same must be true all over the country.
Soooo ... if we're incapable as a collective of doing it properly, bring in the tech to force us. That's the stage I'm reaching with all of this.
Years ago, they made a street I was living in a 20 zone and installed speed bumps. We actually had a set of them directly outside our house. This was quite a busy residential road, cars parked both sides, very built-up, bus route and used as a rat run.
This meant diddly squat to a fairly high percentage of drivers. You'd still see them flying up and down the road, some excessively so. The same must be true all over the country.
Soooo ... if we're incapable as a collective of doing it properly, bring in the tech to force us. That's the stage I'm reaching with all of this.
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I always remember going on honeymoon with with Mrs S Mk I and I had moved into the 3rd lane of the M6 near Appleby, ready to pass a coach.
As I was about a third of the way up the coach, it started pulling over into our path.
There was no way we could make it out forwards, so I jammed on the anchors and "backed out" of the situation. We reported the coach driver to the police, who stopped him further up the road. He told them that he had seen me and was "holding the coach steady" while I passed. But there was no way forward - the gap was too narrow.
There was a funny moment when the local Bobby came round to take a statement from us for the Cumbria force. He asked Mrs S Mk I what she witnessed before the incident. She said she was asleep, then woke with a jerk. To which the copper said, "Was that your husband next to you?!".
It went to court in Appleby later that year and the driver was representing himself. The police presented their evidence, including the bit about him having admitted seeing me in the 3rd lane. Well, he couldn't say he hadn't! But either way he was stuffed.
As I was about a third of the way up the coach, it started pulling over into our path.
There was no way we could make it out forwards, so I jammed on the anchors and "backed out" of the situation. We reported the coach driver to the police, who stopped him further up the road. He told them that he had seen me and was "holding the coach steady" while I passed. But there was no way forward - the gap was too narrow.
There was a funny moment when the local Bobby came round to take a statement from us for the Cumbria force. He asked Mrs S Mk I what she witnessed before the incident. She said she was asleep, then woke with a jerk. To which the copper said, "Was that your husband next to you?!".
It went to court in Appleby later that year and the driver was representing himself. The police presented their evidence, including the bit about him having admitted seeing me in the 3rd lane. Well, he couldn't say he hadn't! But either way he was stuffed.
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