National Road Safety week - That means speed checks

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

why can't we have some TV adverts teaching really basic stuff out of the highway code? We got an advert about a teenage girl texting while driving and I think it really helped raise awareness.

The man is onto something. A few ideas for featured phrases to educated the nobbers out there:

- Calmly deal with all antagonistic situations
- Understand rudimentary car physics
- Never use the phone while driving
- Tailgating is BAD!

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Drivers need some serious education - like we had 'Charlie Says' as kids teaching us how to cross the road, and a white haired Pedophile teaching us to 'Clunk Click every trip' why can't we have some TV adverts teaching really basic stuff out of the highway code? We got an advert about a teenage girl texting while driving and I think it really helped raise awareness.

The Public Information Films of days gone by were very effective. Simple messages repeating common sense reminders about the road and general safety (although I do recall my Mum had to tell me the man in the funny clothes was Alvin Stardust). When you think how many people just do not understand the simplicity of keep left unless overtaking there is a real need for a modern version of these. A Tufty revival can teach people not to text and walk; a new Green Cross Man can tell the reps and middle managers blighting _Ralph's_ day that nobody is impressed by their identikit four-pot German diesel; a new Charlie can use street-talk to warn the yoof about cyber-bullying.

I think they should include it in the BBC's mandate, you could easily slot a short clip between programmes to inform people

[Fallout]

It is a genuinely good idea. Most of the errors people make is because they're not capable of using their own common sense. Televisual brainwashing would work wonders on these pathetic minds.

I'll be sure to leave my speed at home while out and about this week then.

[Wideboy]

TBF I think you could "educate" the motoring nation as much as you'd like and it wouldn't make any difference, the average population either have no common sense or are just too thick. You'd think the threat of points and higher insurance would be enough.

Originally Posted by Wideboy

. You'd think the threat of points and higher insurance would be enough.

Clearly, which is why you ride so slowly all the time.

[Wideboy]

Precisely

[Fallout]

Originally Posted by Wideboy

TBF I think you could "educate" the motoring nation as much as you'd like and it wouldn't make any difference, the average population either have no common sense or are just too thick. You'd think the threat of points and higher insurance would be enough.

It's because they're thick that it would work. They allow themselves to be brainwashed. How many people do you know who always do the speed limit because it's the right thing to do? I know loads. It's not the threat of points or fear of being pulled (as it is for us), it's because they're happy to just accept that someone who decided 30mph (for example) is the right speed limit for all vehicles, driver abilities, weathers, etc is right. They don't question it. Someone in government or an agency who got a 2:2 in a Traffic Management degree worked it out with an abacus, so it must be right.

It's these people incapable of their own thought that, with a prolonged ad campaign will slowly be turned. It's like drink driving. It's culturally unacceptable now since we've banged on about it for long enough. If there was a constant Ad campaign saying "Pull into the slow lane. Don't be a *****!", eventually hogging the middle lane would have such a stigma that people wouldn't do it.

[DarrenSV650S]

I wasn't being serious. Just a slightly drunken post. And it wasn't aimed at you at all Pete