New Anti speeding add...

[RobDickinson]

Young guy in a 80's shed constantly drifting from 50-60 kph by accident, thinking about god knows what, drives round a corner sees a car parked on the side of the road and swerves out towards a cyclist.

And stops. Well thats if he was doing 50kph.

Because he's doing the evil 60kph he hits a lampost because there always another 10kph away...

The lesson, the solution to this accident, apparently is that the extra 10kph can be deadly, or is deady, or something.

Wouldnt a better solution be observation and correct speed for a corner so we dont have to swerve into the cyclist/other side of the road instead?

It seems the message is stick to the speed limit, all the time, and you will be OK. fking stupid.

[Jem Thompson]

I love the way he gets the car so out of shape at such a low speed. They should be teaching people to drive so you can stop in the area you see clear ahead, doing so would avoid the situation depicted (as would not yanking the handbrake). Its just yet more garbage from the NZTA.

I must admit, they did do a fairly good magazine ad I thought, where the car lying upside down just off the road is preceded by a trajectory of numbers and equations, the idea being you cant beat physics. Just a shame they dont actually teach anyone just what exactly these physics are.

[Omerta]

Yes quite odd I thought too. Not sure you could get that out of shape without using the handbrake and a lot of wheel twiddling.

[Esprit]

Pisses me off greatly... all of these road safety messages where the message is "slow down"... when the scenarios they show are often caused FAR more by inattention, laughably poor driver skills, inattention, or inattention than they are by any supposed speed.

Proper driver education is what we need... but that'd be too hard to tax.