If a system costs more than $50 per unit and part of this is integrated in the car cost per legislation, the technology is free. Ultimately cars are dangerous, they should never have been invented the way they were, It should be the car companies responsibility to make them safe. It is so easy for a car to have an accident, there are so many ridiculous safety faults such as blind spots, inability of a driver to judge distances correctly by the design of the car, poor angles of lights, (even the best Eurpean cars fog up at times, I could go on and on, but I don’t hear these issues being brought up. I mean there are safety guide lines, but the engineers who make them must be brain dead ! I have driven so many cars and why do they still have blind spots ?? We’ve been making cars for how long.

Given speed isn’t the issue as has been shown statistically, what is the government going to do about loosening up road laws, fines and speed cameras to bring the freedom, joy and friendliness back to driving ? And what is the government going to do about safety. I had a clown try to run me off the road for about 20 km in Gippsland a few years ago. He tail gated me, tried to bang into me side on, braked dramatically in front of me. I told the police about this in gippsland, and also on the way back, but did the police do anything NO ! They didn’t note the description of the vehicle or the number plate I gave them or the details of the incidents. Why I have no faith in Victoria Police, especially the traffic mob. If I didn’t have a good spec car with terrific breaking, I think I would be another road toll statistic. I am gettign sick of injustice in this state and especially oppressive road law. As was revealed in the Moreland newspaper recently, less parking fines means money has to be raised in other ways. Well people are always happy to pay for good transparent service, that they clearly see, that improves their lives. Mybe add a bit of that instead of oppressive fines and law and rules, which just make us mad, righteously mad.

As I was taught in grade 2 at school by a cool teacher with a funny name: Mr Hornyblow “prevention always better than cure !” maybe some of these pollies need to go back to primary school- oh but that’s right they were too busy bullying other kids and probably dobbing in kids for things they themselves had done, they certainly enjoy doing it to motorists.

It will be hacked within a couple of weeks after it’s release and the hacking tools plastered all over the net hahahahahah.

They wanna stop ppl from smoking in cars,they want to control how you drive your car, Christ what next? Oh i know they’ll stop us from drinking alcohol,then they’ll stop us from kissing in public, Then we wont be alowed after 9pm, them we’ll be told what we can and cant watch on tv!

For frig sake i wish ppl would stand up to the gov this is just plain outright deprivation of liberty!

It is ALL based on the premise that “speed kills” and which simplistic notion parallels “criminals have guns, therefore those who have guns are criminals”.

We have of course all seen the promises made by the former PM and those who fed off him come to fruition. Just look at the crime, homicide and suicide stats – after wasting a BILLION dollars on two gun confiscations, they continue to rise. But we are told that we are ’safer’.

This is all about people control. It has nothing to do with safety and all to do with empowering already bloated government. We (the sheep) are constantly shepherded into ’safety’, and all because we can’t be trusted.

“Speed Kills” is a digestable one liner justification for whatever ‘authority’ or politcal transient to do anything. Blanket rules are applied to cover ALL situations, so we suffer all too often unrealistic low speed restrictions.

Remember – We vote for these bastards to be just so concerned about us and ever willing to ‘make us safer’.

Why then is it that I am one of many who don’t give a stuff about their safety? In fact, I wish the meddling mongrels would die painful deaths and leave the responsible majority of us alone to decide for ourselves what is appropriate for the current conditions.

Pink Floyd said it right: “Welcome to the machine” for you are “Another brick in the wall”

Peter Cunningham

Go ask the CFA volunteers about the government knowing where roads are and where people live, and they’ll not trust it.

Have you ever followed a satnav to the exact letter?
We did the other day and were told to take a left hand turn over the Hume Weir.

Having some other “entity” controlling the vehicle is not on.

I can just see some cars going 100km in a 60 zone and taking it to court saying “your system said I could … it’s in control of the car”, conversely doing 40km on a 110km freeway.

There are more productive ways of lowering the road toll and accidents.

If you put a driver that constantly travels 10k under the limit, stops at round abouts and give way signs, has never been booked for anything and think they are the safest drivers on the road would be the first to do something wrong in an emergency, purely due to the fact that they would be unaware of that capabilities of their vehicle, panic and more than likely be the cause of the accident.

For those of you that travel a little faster than allowed, you would come across a situation regularly where evasive action must be taken quickly because the moron in front of you changed into your lane in front of you without really assessing how fast you are coming up behind them.

I am continuously amazed at the creative ways government assholes come up with to justify their jobs.

I agree with Bob about the “reverse-polarity switch forcing them all to DO the speed limit and not 20 below.” I might actually *support* that initiative! :-)

I also think that the second hand car market will boom when new ones have these installed. :p

On the positive side, at least you can’t get a speeding ticket. The negative side? You’ll be stuck behind that Lorry all the way from Sydney to Newcastle. FUN!

All this shows is that we’re taking another step closer to being totally controlled by the worlds governing institutions and eventually a total breakdown of society.

Speed, as someone pointed out is not the killer..

its Bad Driving.

Young “P” platers showing off to their mates, driving eratically, criss crossing around on the high way.

Ultimately Australian roads will become fully automated where cars will be driven by systems/auto-drivers.

How about spending the money on teaching young drivers better skills and knowledge… “P” platers should all be driving “under powered” cars period. If I was an 18 year old I would be against it… but since I am.. I see its advantages.

Drink driving too… spend more funding on systems that prevent drunk drivers from accessing their cars…

Heck.. reset the entire Australian Road system and opt for more trains and public transport… because its pretty much what Australia should be doing looking at the costs of driving and maintaining cars. Not to mention Sydney and Melbourne have a HUGE problem in terms of traffic in the next 5-10 years… Monumental screw up and underestimation by road/traffic designers.

say i got into an accident while travelling at 60kmh. if i had travelled at 70kmh then i wouldnt be in an accident.

i think this money should be spent fighting crime and installing gps microchips in murderers and thieves.

Seriously though, I’d hate it on my car but for those who’ve had licences suspended or for repeat offenders, it’d be an idea similar to putting breath-interlocks on their cars. If you prove you’re a moron and can’t control your right foot, you get speed limited. Fair’s fair.

The only way to deal with the road toll is police actively enforcing the law 24/7 on our roads.

I will not buy a car that is fitted with such a device & will vote out any government that even suggests that I should!

I think its inevitable….

What really amazes me that complete lack of an annual roadworthy in Victoria. There’s got to be thousands of dodgy un-serviced old, crap, dangerous cars on the roads. Its ridiculous that you could buy and run a cars and simply never get it repaired. Insisting on a roadworthy on these heaps would solve a lot of accidents.

Over-Governed…TOO RIGHT!
Westy

Any drive knowns there are times where you simply need the extra speed.

I’m sure everyone has accelerated away from something like a red light camera or a potential accident.

Maybe giving an extra 10km/h or something on top of the speed limit would be fine.