dennis@home wrote:


"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:



"Tim Watts" wrote in message
news dennis@home wrote:



"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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That 99% of accidents are caused by stupid drivers or bad luck, not
failure to keep exactly to arbitrary speed limits?

No, 99% of accidents are caused because the driver was going too fast.
Luck is not required.

Cite please...

Cite a car accident where it would have happened if the car wasn't going
slower.
More than 1%?

No, you cite - you're the one making the assertion.

Well I have, there are less than 1% of car accidents where if the driver
was driving slow enough they would not have happened.
Virtually all accidents are avoidable by one of the parties as they are
nearly all driver error.


And you should defined "too fast". Do you mean:

a) Too fast for the conditions

b) Above the legal speed limit for the road in question?

Neither, too fast for the participants to avoid the accident.


Right. so in principle if you are sitting in a stationary queue of cars
ion a motorway and some kid decides to drop a concrete block on your
car, you were not in fact traveling too slow to avoid it, but too fast?
And you slow to a stop on every single roundabout IN CASE someone
decides to come out and hit you in the side of the car. In fact since
you cant predict what the other person is going to do, and really they
might do it while you were stationary, really teh only safe place is in
your garage, and hope that doesn't fall down.




Its like this.. if you can foresee an accident happening, you would slow
down to avoid it.

exactly. Or speed up, or turn the wheel, or not get in the car at all.


Some drivers do this better than others.
They are the ones that the poor drivers say are driving too slow.
The fact the poor drivers have been held up prevents the accident
happening so they never get to see what the hazard was reinforcing their
mistaken beliefs that the good driver was driving too slow.

Its when the poor drivers get to make the decisions that they crash.

Or cause someone else to crash.





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