On or around Fri, 09 May 2008 08:49:50 GMT, rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl
(Richard Bos) enlightened us thusly:
>Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>> On or around Thu, 08 May 2008 06:40:02 GMT, rlb@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl
>> (Richard Bos) enlightened us thusly:
>>
>> >Austin Shackles wrote:
>> >
>> >> On or around Tue, 6 May 2008 14:26:58 +0100, Guy King
>> >>
>> >> >Ah - many of us have found a really clever answer to that. Stay within
>> >> >the limit and everything else happens automatically.
>> >>
>> >> hooter that. I'll drive within (often quite a long way within) the limits
>> >> on roads that merit it, I'm damned if I'll obey arbitrary limits with no
>> >> credible reason for existing.
>> >
>> >That's fine by me, as long as you do it where your family walks next to
>> >the road, and not where mine does.
>>
>> Read what I've said
>
>I _did_ read what you wrote, I just don't agree with your conclusions.
>
>> or STFU.
>
>And being rude in the Shed is my job, dammit, not yours.
bollocks!
and BTW. If your family are walking by the road, I'll modify my driving
accordingly. depending on the road and any arbitrary limit, I'll very
likely slow to less than said limit. This is what I mean by assessing the
conditions.
and for example, if your family were walking in the middle of the road
around a blind corner, then I'd expect to be doing a speed such that I could
stop without hitting them as I came around the corner. That's also part of
the judgement: it should always be possible to stop within the distance you
can see to be clear. On single track roads, that gets modified to "half the
distance". In fact, that's the core assumption behind the whole thing, but
the actual assessment includes many factors, not just sight distance.
With that in mind, on a UK main road with a nominal 60 limit, I'm a good
deal less likely to hit your family than the repmobile driver on his phone
doing 58 mph, who, incidentally and irrelevantly, is not exceeding the
arbitrary limit.
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