Thread: Road Rage, who gets it?

Originally Posted by waynep

Which brings me on to my pet hate : every time there's a little bit of rain the kids in the jap cars have to wheel spin off every intersection and fishtail up the road. I often wonder if it's deliberate, or they just have no understanding of how to adjust their driving techniques to suit the conditions..

Its good fun

I think every one should do a defensive driving course as part of there driver training before they get there licence
I did one many years ago,when I worked for a well now coach tour company down in victoria,we did the course at Lang Lang in a bus and semi trailer,that was in 1975,the coach company is still going.they brought over a American ,who was the main driving instructor for greyhound in the states,the course was over two days,first day was in the class room, we watched videos,of bus and truck crashes,some of the bus crashes were horrible,I remember to this day a picture of the old lady's hand bag with her finger nails broken off and stuck in the hand bag,she must of squeezed the bag at impacted,she died at the crash site.
second day was on the proving ground,doing 360,s and learning about aquaplaining on wet roads,also road rage,and how to stay focused.
Best training I ever done,helped me out countless time in my driving career.
Young hoons and (old one,s )should be made to watch the same videos as I did,they would never speed again

Originally Posted by longreach

Young hoons and (old one,s )should be made to watch the same videos as I did,they would never speed again

Seen,ALOT of varying vids, doco's etc........never stopped me, visual impact rarely has an effect, except on the impressionable, its only when its close to home, i.e. a family member, it has a chance of working, even then, old habits and all that

Originally Posted by rovercare

Seen,ALOT of varying vids, doco's etc........never stopped me, visual impact rarely has an effect, except on the impressionable, its only when its close to home, i.e. a family member, it has a chance of working, even then, old habits and all that

The videos you watched may not have been as graphic as the ones that I watched,I sat thought countless clips of smashes of buses and trucks,and yes it did affect me,may be I am impressionable....but it did change the way I drive,in 38 years never had a accident in a truck are bus,and only lost one point in 10 years,and that was for a log book violation. Keith

Originally Posted by p38arover

Chuckled? I would have peed myself!

Dunno why talking or texting on a mobile has been banned. So many people do it that it must be impossible to police or it just isn't policed. (I have a hands-free kit and I don't like it that much as it's still distracting.)

I had to laugh the other day.

The cops quite regularly use our driveways at work for speed traps and to congregate for drug raids etc and on Thursday it was time again for another congregation of some sort.

Out of 8 cop cars, 7 of them had their drivers and some of the passangers as well talking on Mobiles as they pulled up off the main road.

I can just imagine how many people they have pulled up for talking on mobile phones when they do it all the time.

I have to say though, most of the coppers around our area are pretty good, I rarely have to use my phone while driving and normally turn it off but if I have answered it I normally say hang on and pull over as I dont multi task all that well anyway.

I have driven past cops with the phone in my hand but not to my ear and they have just given me the naughty naughy finger shake and kept driving.

Originally Posted by longreach

The videos you watched may not have been as graphic as the ones that I watched,I sat thought countless clips of smashes of buses and trucks,and yes it did affect me,may be I am impressionable....but it did change the way I drive,in 38 years never had a accident in a truck are bus,and only lost one point in 10 years,and that was for a log book violation. Keith

The army has some pretty gruesome ones. Mechanised death was one that I recall. They bombarded or,tried to, our transport unit with these. On about the third one we were laughing all the more ,the more guts & pieces of people that was screened. It just lost its edge. I know peer pressure and all that comes into play, and laughter can be infectious but halfway through the Captain cracked it and turned off the projector and told us to p!$$ off. Maybe it had a long term effect, who knows. I'd forgotten it till this thread.