K53 Drivers Test - Not Working

[Dave A]

Accidents happen because we have to share the roads with trucks, potholes, drunk drivers and invisible cops.

... and pedestrians and wildlife.

I don't know about the 160km per hour speed limit. You're really reducing the odds of being able to avoid problems when things go wrong.

Maybe there's a few sections of road up to it, but is it really worth it.

[twinscythe12332]

I do feel they can make the maximum speed 160 kilometres per hour. Really if youre car can do it and you move faster why not? Accidents happen because we have to share the roads with trucks, potholes, drunk drivers and invisible cops.

personally my theory is that there are accidents because:
A) people are drunk.
B) people are racing, and don't know the limits of their car when they take that corner, or need to slam brakes.

The other thing is there are quite a few accidents where there is a fast driver and a slow driver. And it's normally the slow driver who isn't looking at what's happening.

[tec0]

Right so a 160 kilometres per hour might be dangerous what about 140 kilometres per hour? Really a QQ can do a 134 kilometres per hour!

[tec0]

When I was outside South Africa in Botswana I noticed that no-one was using their mobile phones while driving apart from the hands-free-kits... There traffic cops are strict with this kind of thing. Then today in South Africa every single driver was talking on their mobile phones without a hands-free-kit! Why is that?

[Dave A]

Visible enforcement

[tec0]

Fact is I live close to a bar about 1KM from my house. I don’t go there because the place is a dump. Amway a lot of speeding cars, spinning and smoking tires and loud booming music just to p!ss you off. Point is no police. No road block no noting and then the inevitable accident where some dude lost control over his supper fast Nissan Champ Pickup. The driver is okay but the tree didn’t make it.

Now I wonder if this thing could have been avoided if the traffic cops did something.