Thread: Hide your rego no?

Based on Turtle61's last post then in 50 years time even though the vehicles are likely to be much more advanced then the average speed limit will have decreased significantly (80kph highways? 70kph? 60kph?) because we're going to have much more people on the roads all driving different capability vehicles.

I don't think that constantly decreasing speed limits is the way to go, and despite what the government thinks - you just can't save everyone.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

Not that I have anything against old people. I mean...we will all be old one day BUT....when some old guy tells you he drove to hospital after suffering a stroke that left him paralysed down one side...I mean

You have to wonder.....

There's an old bloke driving around here and he's legally blind. His wife gives directions. If I ever see him I will report him.

Ron

There is a reason that it's called "Legally Blind"

Matt4x4. I don't believe frenchies comment was directed at you, nor do I think that it was serious, rather in jest. Your situation is not a good one, and I doubt that any member here would say that it was anything other than regrettable. Best of luck in finding a Donor.

Originally Posted by Turtle61

I think the whole argument about speeding limits is useless. Don't like the speed limits - do something about it.

Let's just say I know lots of people who are in the inside of this debate in QLD.

After a discussion with one of them (off the record) we agreed that it was a crock and not really helping. In the end he just said that If I could put up a business case for another way for them to get the money then something could be done.

Until then "speed kills" must continue to be what it is... the title of a business plan.

Originally Posted by p38arover

There's an old bloke driving around here and he's legally blind. His wife gives directions. If I ever see him I will report him.

Ron

boom boom

Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
There's an old bloke driving around here and he's legally blind. His wife gives directions. If I ever see him I will report him.

Ron

Originally Posted by oldzook

boom boom

Hey, it's not me.

Ron

Matt I apologise if my comments caused offence.....

but it was a joke.

I sympathise fully with your condition, and I am aware of the problems faced by people waiting for organ transplants, which is why when my sister died recently our family agreed to donate her organs.


(And really, you must agree that only a small proportion of the population have adequate driving skills! )

Originally Posted by p38arover

There's an old bloke driving around here and he's legally blind. His wife gives directions. If I ever see him I will report him.

Ron

My last job was with a Commonwealth Govt. body that had a lot of contact with disabled people. We regularly came across people in receipt of Blind Pensions who not only still had driver's licences but still drove. They usually said that they " just drive down to the shops, I don't drive any distance". What the hell distance has to do with it was beyond me. The pedestrians just walk down to the shops or across the road. You don't have to be totally blind to receive a blind pension but you do have to have very seriously impaired vision and should not drive at all, anywhere, any time. We could have been sacked and faced criminal charges if we dobbed any of these people in to the transport authorities and were found out. This is the craziness of the "privacy code".

As far as the electric scooters go, Camp Hill police got a grandfather on the footpath in Old Cleveland Rd. who blew .34. I saw another old guy on his scooter on the footpath outside the Boundary Hotel, West End, who had passed out, full as a goog, with a decent number of empty pot glasses on the window sill next to him. The police station is across the road.