Thread: Sad road day in Perth

I think they make cars too safe,the more safety stuff they put on cars the more people switch off. Pat

Originally Posted by Fatso

4 deaths in 4 hours on Perth roads this morning .

The sad thing is most road deaths could have been avoided.
People often treat their cars like a lounge room, figgeting, putting feet up, fiddling around instead of concentration on the sole task of driving

Originally Posted by PAT303

I think they make cars too safe,the more safety stuff they put on cars the more people switch off. Pat

Unlike a motorbike where you are more one with the machine and make pretty direct inputs with your body, new cars do have so many distractions also. I hired an Aurion to drive for work in Melbourne. The amount of bloody buttons and gizmos I thought I'd need an induction before being allowed to drive it.

People don't pay enough attention to such an important task. We've got disconnected from the machines, more distracted and live in a false sense of safety - due to certain OHS policies that seem to trivialise common sense and removing the onus on an operator of a piece of equipment.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

The sad thing is most road deaths could have been avoided.
People often treat their cars like a lounge room, figgeting, putting feet up, fiddling around instead of concentration on the sole task of driving

Totally agree , WA had the highest rod toll per capita last year in Oz and the way we are going it wont be any better this year . I just cant get my head around the bad standard of driving as displayed here in WA .

Must agree about the amount of distracting toys there are in cars these days.
Seems as if there's something else for every driver to do to while away the time when they should be concentrating full time on what they're doing.
Many new cars with the latest design gizmo also appear never to have been checked to see if the new "improvement" actually does improve things. Check out a lot of buzz boxes and see if you can actually spot an indicator working until it's directly square on to you. Hopeless things hidden behind clear plastic. Although WA drivers rarely use them anyway.
Then there's the convex external mirrors!!!! Even the Deafener came with these bloody awful things so I changed them for flat mirrors. Did the same with the Prado as it was hopeless trying to reverse a van using them.
But I don't think the phone, Ipad, GPS or other stuff can be blamed entirely for the awful standard of driving here as we live in the Joondalup area and see what goes on with instruction and testing on the local roads near the test centre.
We also see the cops from the local academy under going what passes for training at no more than the speed limit with flashing lights and sirens. The standards there don't seem to be much different to other driver training.
And 90% of them opt for traffic duties straight from training and most of them drive just like mum and dad always did when they were in the car as kids.
The powers that be were proclaiming last years low death rate as proof that their road safety strategies were working......anyone who drives a lot could have told them it was an aberration as the driving and attitudes hadn't improved a bit.
This year it's back to normal with most deaths occurring in the country (no seat belts and running off the road into trees) so their reaction is to buy more speed cameras......to use in the city as they're not "cost effective" in the country!
That shows where their priorities lie.
AlanH.

I always find It sad when we hear of road deaths . I think that after driving for awhile drivers become complacent , and drive more on instincts . This of course can be a major contributing factor !!.. Jim..

Originally Posted by Fatso

Totally agree , WA had the highest rod toll per capita last year in Oz

i think NT is higher, something like 10times higher

Originally Posted by Fatso

Totally agree , WA had the highest rod toll per capita last year in Oz and the way we are going it wont be any better this year . I just cant get my head around the bad standard of driving as displayed here in WA .

We have long open roads boarded by tree's,we also have many remote comunities and many kilometers of dirt roads and most likely do more long Km's at higher average speeds than most other states,the NT is in the same boat. Pat