Which gets me to where I want to be.
You only have to watch human behaviour to realise that it is the only common denominator in accidents.
It is fact that the top F1 teams can get a car around a track by remote control quicker than they can with a driver.
Our roads, as poor as they are in Aus, are a gigantic asphalt parking lots for a form of transport that is arguably less efficient than the horse
As a kid I had a brilliant slot car set up. Having sat in traffic for far too long in my life, I have to ask, why is it in this day and age, where we can use GPS to guide massive mining trucks without a driver, do we rely on this archaic schamozel we have got today.
Imagine a system where you do not have a car. You hit a button on your personal communication device and it asks you where you want to go, tells you when to meet it and conveys you to your destination without risk because there is No Human Intervention.
100% reliable, electric community vehicles. Never hit a pedestrian, never kill a passenger. Your kids can play in the street without risk, no noise, no hooligans, no accidents and
No debate about keeping left
Think it cannot be done? Ask the geeks. If they can calculate order out of chaos, which they can, then they can solve the problem.
There is reason why human beings only get seriously hurt playing football and not when colliding in the shopping mall. We are not built to collide with anything at speed.
The calculations needs to be done by computer whilst the passengers text
Like the ones that land a Boeing every 1.5 minutes at Heathrow.
It is do-able, we have the technology, just there is a vested interest
Had to get that one in for all you capitalist V8 gass guzzlers with phallic vehicular syndrome induced by conventional press
induced by conventional press
induced by conventional press
I once drove from Germany to Netherlands, ie the loosest speed rules in the EU to the tightest. At first, we were cruising at about 160-180kph, staying the the right lane (slow lane) and allowing faster cars to overtake, and pulling out only to overtake slower cars. It worked beautifully.
Technically the speed limit is 130kph on both sides of the border, but in germany it isn't enforced and in Netherlands it is. As soon as we crossed the border, without any other cars joining the highway, it immediately became conjested as cars were not allowing other cars to pass and everyone (most people) were trying to stay under the limit.
I also just got back from Florida and California where i noticed that the speed limits seem to be advisory only. 65mph is the general limit (about 108kph) but most people average about 75-80, including the cops.
I think Australia has the most strict enforcing of speed limits in the world.
I was driving between Johannesburg to Rustenberg in South Africa one day, doing 140 in a 120 zone, and I caught up with a police car. He moved halfway into the emergency lane to let me past, as is the practice over there, so I did.
And with about 6 million licensed drivers that's not a good ratio. Confirms my feeling that if road rule law enforcement was backed off another notch in Australia I wouldn't be game to get out on the road.
And what's with NSW? You've got to do 120 in a 110 zone to get a ticket. Even though I've managed to collect two Victorian tickets in the last 12 months, they've at least got the right idea. A limit is a limit, if it's 120 call it 120.
