Thread: Hoon caught doing 170 in 100 zone.

I'm 24 and my mates aren't always law abiding drivers. I get on their case and tell them when they feel the need to gun it, its not the skill of the driver involved, its the unpredictability of anyone or anything else on the road.

Throw in manufacturing defects or age related wear (car and road surface, not the driver) that can abruptly alter circumstances and somewhere the luck runs out.

Not that i've ever pipped the speed limit

Mark

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

Nonsense! an empty motorway in would generally have a 100-110 kph limit, and driving at 160kph isnt necessarily dangerous. (I believe in this case it may have been a more built up area which makes it more risky however)

Its all down to cirumstances.

For example, doing the speed limit can be dangerous in certain conditions. heavy traffic, poor visibilty, bad weather, poorly maintained vehicle, etc etc, but 160kph can be perfectley safe if a decent driver in sensible conditions, such as an empty motorway.

I mean for heavens sake 160kph is only 100mph.

Rgds
Pete.

If you want to drive at these speeds can you please do it on the race track and not endanger the lives of myself or any of my loved ones thanks.

Hopefully you will grow up before you kill anyone.

Where did I say I drove at above the speed limit...

I suggest that you learn to read.

And for your info, I do hold an international Race licence. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

Nonsense! an empty motorway in would generally have a 100-110 kph limit, and driving at 160kph isnt necessarily dangerous. (I believe in this case it may have been a more built up area which makes it more risky however)

Its all down to cirumstances.

For example, doing the speed limit can be dangerous in certain conditions. heavy traffic, poor visibilty, bad weather, poorly maintained vehicle, etc etc, but 160kph can be perfectley safe if a decent driver in sensible conditions, such as an empty motorway.

I mean for heavens sake 160kph is only 100mph.

Rgds
Pete.

Bloody Poms ............ ......... Jokes mate Jokes .

Lol....

Guess this is going to be one of those topics that no one is going to agree on!!...

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

Where did I say I drove at above the speed limit...

I suggest that you learn to read.

And for your info, I do hold an international Race licence. Thanks.

Well, you are supportive of people driving at 160 kph on roads that are rated at 100 kph, so i would assume that you do the same.

Why dont you ???

The neighbors’ Commodore Ute got confiscated the other day he was doing a burnout & speeding in a residential street three houses from a primary school; police caught him he also had been drinking.

Saw him driving another Ute the next day they didn't take his license just the Ute. They should take both. His "friends" were cheering him on they should get charged as well.
He said he lives for "danger" but everyone else on the road would really just like to live. If you want to drive fast or put your life in danger go be a race car driver or how about volunteering for the frontline of the army? (Then again he has trouble following road rules probably not a good idea to give him a machine gun).
As someone who drives late nights on dark quite country roads aren't there enough things out there to worry about without hoons endangering your life? Public roads aren’t amusement parks I just want to get where I’m going in one piece. They can find danger somewhere they aren’t putting the innocent unsuspecting public in danger.
By the way these tough boys who live for danger don't seem to be so brave around my little quarter horse being around her was a little too dangerous for them.

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

Where did I say I drove at above the speed limit...

I suggest that you learn to read.

And for your info, I do hold an international Race licence. Thanks.

An "international race license" Licenses you to drive on a race track where you can do whatever speed is "appropriate". It does not give you the right to do any speed you feel like on a public road, just a a gun license does not give you the right to shoot tin cans in you front yard because you "think" it is safe.

Bottom line, on the road, the variables at play are not just your ability, they also include the actions of pedestrians, the pot hole that was not on the road last week, the neigbours dog that just ran out in front of you etc etc and this is largley an issue because a public road is not in the sense of the word a controlled envioronment. A race track is to a much greater degree controlled as it removes a lot of these variable.

Don't get me wrong, I am no saint and I agree that a good many speed limits are too low, but it is a fact of life and largly because of the idiots who are in fact unsafe at any speed.