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Sunshine Coast
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Epping, Sydney
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Re: Interesting read in relation to speed cameras
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Tue, 03 February 2004 08:51
 
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very very interesting and good
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Cabramatta, NSW
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May 2002
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Tue, 03 February 2004 09:07
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What kind of retard puts text on top of a bright green background?!
ARGH!! Me eyes!
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Location:
Central Coast
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April 2003
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Tue, 03 February 2004 09:14
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thats a great read. Thanks very much for that information. Is anybody going to use any of this info??
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March 2003
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Sunshine Coast
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February 2004
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Re: Interesting read in relation to speed cameras
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Tue, 03 February 2004 13:29
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sorry bout the page. i was more interested in the content 
the mobile speed camera thing would probably come in quite handy, especially in regards to the brisbane/gold coast stretch of the pacific highway
and i always thought that slow drivers were more of a danger than speeding ones
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I supported Toymods
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Epping, Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: Interesting read in relation to speed cameras
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Tue, 03 February 2004 15:20
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some good points
some really poor ones too, and whoever wrote it skipped over large chunks of information, which I can pick up on just by reading waht *isn't* said
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Location:
Sunshine Coast
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February 2004
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Re: Interesting read in relation to speed cameras
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Wed, 04 February 2004 00:46
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Draven - such as?
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Lost in the K hole
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May 2002
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Wed, 04 February 2004 00:49
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couldnt be assed reading the whole thing...
but the Less time on the road section is severely flawed
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Epping, Sydney
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April 2003
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Wed, 04 February 2004 00:58
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so he's not perfect... there are still some pretty interesting ideas there I reckon
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I supported Toymods
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Epping, Sydney
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May 2002
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Wed, 04 February 2004 01:36
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yeah
less time on the road has the biggest holes.
also the bit on racetrack driving.. maybe it's the fact that all racetrack drivers are in the top 1% of drivers has something to do with the fact that tehre aren't many crashes.
I didn't read the whole thing either
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Re: Interesting read in relation to speed cameras
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Wed, 04 February 2004 03:13
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| Nark wrote on Tue, 03 February 2004 20:07 |
What kind of retard puts text on top of a bright green background?!
ARGH!! Me eyes!
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dargh cant see - im colour blind 
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March 2003
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Melbourne
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November 2003
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Wed, 04 February 2004 07:29
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Yeah, good read.
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Crapberra
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September 2003
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Thu, 12 February 2004 23:41
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Just to be difficult.
While reading the article an inconsistency in the data occurred to me. It claim that only 2% of accidents occur above the speed limit while 98% occur below the speed limit; has this been averaged out by the amount of people driving over the speed limit compared to the proportion of people driving below the speed limit. Sure it sounds good to say only 2 out of a 100 (hypothetically speaking) road fatalities occurred above the speed limit (thus 2%), but say from 100 drivers only 10 of those drivers drive above the speed limit that would make it statistically 2 out of 10 or 20% of fatalities occurred at speeds above the limit.
Another point to consider (for the fore side) is that when travelling at higher speeds the concentration required to manoeuvrer through traffic is much greater. Think how many times you see some one driving at the speed limit (or less) that is not concentrating (reaching for the mobile phone or changing the volume on the radio) now think back to the people who are weaving in and out of traffic; what are they doing? Concentrating on the road and their driving. The perception of danger is lessened according to the speed the car is travelling - the slower you go the less danger you are in, therefore the less concentration you supposedly require. (I must add a reference and thanks to Hot 4s magazine for this point as they published an editorial on the subject in the last few months. Not sure on the issue number but can dig it up for accuracy sake).
Living in Canberra I can give a feedback to some of the points mentioned about intersections and keeping left. With red light/speed camera's at intersection, this does (from my perception) decrease the incidents of 'beating the lights'. People are more inclined to stop for an orange light than to try and run the red light and potentially cause an accident just to avoid getting a ticket. Unfortunately we do have lots of signs here that do state 'Keep Left' but the signs must be equipped with cloaking technology as so many drivers pay little heed to these signs and sit within the right lane and do speeds less than the posted limit.
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Eskilstuna, Sweden
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May 2002
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Re: Interesting read in relation to speed cameras
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Fri, 13 February 2004 05:18
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| draven wrote on Wed, 04 February 2004 12:36 |
also the bit on racetrack driving.. maybe it's the fact that all racetrack drivers are in the top 1% of drivers has something to do with the fact that tehre aren't many crashes.
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This stat can't be true!................ 
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Location:
Epping, Sydney
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April 2003
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Fri, 13 February 2004 05:21
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heh or the fact that race track drivers number less than 1% of the drivers on the road 
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I supported Toymods
Location:
Ademelaide, SA
Registered:
July 2003
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Fri, 13 February 2004 13:29
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The Police can now confiscate a car for relatively minor offences. No wonder we have one of the worlds highest male youth suicide rates.
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yep...i'm sure that's it...
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