Andy McKenzie wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Tue, 08 May 2007 10:04:25 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:


|!If people were prosecuted not for speeding, but for HAVING ACCIDENTS.
|!the roads would be a far safer place.

In reality *both* happen. Small fine and a few points for speeding which
*may* cause an accident.
Bigger fine and more points if you *do* cause an accident by speeding.
Nobody ever caused an accident by speeding on its own.

I beg to differ. Come into a corner or a junction too fast and your speed
has caused an accident that results. Fail to react in time to an unexpected
hazard and your speed has caused the accident.

In neither case it is the speed, its the speed *in association with a
particular manoeuver*.



You can balance a few angels
on the head of a pin by claiming that it was driving too fast for the
conditions or the road that was to blame, rather than the speed, but the
fact is speeding can cause accidents, and makes accidents worse when they
happen.. And a desire to shave seconds off a journey causes more. My son is
learning to drive at the moment. It's amazing how an L plate on the back of
a car seems to encourage prats to overtake at any cost, even when if they
lifted their eyes for even a fraction of a second they would see the queue
up ahead and realise that their action was going to gain them sod all.


Take your son to a first rate skid pan, go kart track and race track,
and let him learn how to skid, crash a little, and race around
generally, and take him to a few races where he can watch other people
in full race harness, fireproof suits and crash helmets crash, and I
guarantee you he will not bring boy racer tactics of his own to the
public roads.

Being as how this is uk d-i-y, how about a design for a EMP pulse generator
that would fry the prat's engine's ECU from a safe distance. Surely a role
for an old microwave and some sticky back plastic?

sure.

Andy