Speed ?

[BOY1236]

just asking : do you think that the speed limit now is right ?

I mean, they choose that speed limit because of 2 things :

1: friction with air (not going to discuss that)

2: cars of that time

now most of the cars are designed to go with higher speeds than old cars
going 200 km is not hard on the car and dangerous as before

so shouldn't they change the speed limit ??

[Troy711]

Normally I would close a thread like this but I am going to leave it open for some lulz

[VYClubby]

Normally I would close a thread like this but I am going to leave it open for some lulz

Should be good for a laugh

[TVR-190]

lets raise school zones to 100km/h and highways to 250km/h

Because EVERYONE has a new car.

[r_i_d_a_h]

[TVR-190]

Do you like jello?

[HoZy]

thats just saying with every car released an with speeds do all of our senses & ability to judge & know what everyone around us is thinking.. Yeah right...

[TVR-190]

Unlike Saudi, 50 road deaths a day aren't considered acceptable

In Saudi Arabia the motor vehicle is the main means of transportation. Between 1971 and 1997; 564 762 people died or were injured in road traffic accidents, a figure equivalent to 3.5% of the total population in Saudi Arabia. During this period 66 914 people have died on the roads in Saudi Arabia due to road accidents, amounting to one person killed and four injured every hour. Over 65% of accidents occur because of vehicles travelling at excess speed and/or drivers disobeying traffic signals.

Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...31145f007fb4b6

[Haydz]

maybe a little faster on highways etc. but i reckon most of the other roads are ok.

a few 50 zones could be 60 but hey.


maybe 120 130 on a highway. guys remember its a limit. not a number you have to stick on.

[Astranomical]

I'm quite happy with the speed limits as they are now - even if the cars are capable of going much faster, is the typical Joe Bloggs in his V6 Camry or Omega capable of handling a car at that speed?

[SAV_117]

cars may be faster but still no one can actually drive except me hahaha nah but changing the speed limit i think would be a bad idea cause cars may have changed but ppl still cant drive for ****

[ashbox]

i agree with what was has been said, 130 would be ok for most of the hwy's but keep the rest as is. I also agree with what was said about can people handle these new cars at such speed.

[STEALTHY™]

Unlike Saudi, 50 road deaths a day aren't considered acceptable



Source: ScienceDirect - Public Health : Causes and effects of road traffic accidents in Saudi Arabia

The source you provided says 1 death and 4 injuries every hour....., That is 24 killed each day, not 50.

[TVR-190]

thank you mr maths, i said 50 as a guess, then did some research

[STEALTHY™]

thank you mr maths, i said 50 as a guess, then did some research

LOL, you made a comment and posted a source....love the edit button

[greenfoam]

I think 120 is plenty safe on the roads within 100ks around the cities but the current limit of 100 is still sketchy sometimes when its wet on country highways that are farily badly damaged from trucks and you have kangaroos etc that will mess you up at 120 so 100 is fine in the sticks

[TVR-190]

ya probably could have edited the 50 bit

Leave me alone, im not well, i think ive got the bird flu

[STEALTHY™]

ya probably could have edited the 50 bit

Leave me alone, im not well, i think ive got the bird flu

Be careful, could even be horse flu

[Philthy]

I think the speed limits are pretty good. There are some country highways that could probably be 120, and a few 50 zones that could be 60, but I don't think we need to be doing 80 through towns and 150 along the freeway or anything silly like that

[Morton]

Speed limits are fine. Enough twit gets ducked up by inept drivers at current speeds, without adding more speed and longer stopping distances to the equation. I'm yet to see anybody intentionally give anybody else a safe stopping distance on a freeway or country highway, and increasing speeds would only make that worse.

When me and my mate Lewis were driving our two cars from Melbourne to Brisbane via the inland highways, I insisted we keep a good fifty metres between us at all times. I'm paranoid like that. And just as well. As we passed through Warwick into the hills, the truck Lewis was approaching to overtake, blew out a tyre, sending chunks of rubber and an entire steel mud guard (full wheel arch shield, not just a mud flap) flying through the air. Lewis jumped hard on the anchors, and if I hadn't been two safe distances behind him, with a FULL load of luggage in the back of an old VP, I would have gone straight up his arse. (he was driving a new BA Fairmont at the time - it pulls up nicely). I only just avoided the steel mud guard, and pulled up close behind him on the shoulder. Had I been following as closely as most people on the highway like to, I imagine they would have been scraping us off the trees in the embankment. Had we and the truck been travelling at 130 - 150, he would have probably copped a mud guard through the window, or worse still an entire steel tyre belt.

tl;dr version: lots of variables on the road, not just you, and lower speeds help keep them in control.

[vnkid]

Driving faster because its a new car, doesnt stop kids walking out onto the road... i assume it would only cause more mess.

[minux]

Driving faster because its a new car, doesnt stop kids walking out onto the road... i assume it would only cause more mess.

Parents should be watching their kids then. Not the drivers fault parents are too stupid to keep an eye on them.

[adamc11]

Yes... increase speed limits. If we could go twice as fast, then we would be on the road half as long, and that means less driver fatigue =)

[DannyboyDS]

Cars used to built so you would reach its limitations before your own, with the cars of today you will easily reach your own limitations before the car. sure a new typhoon might be able to take those bends at nearly 200kmh IF brocks spirit entered your body (not that it would for a ford driver) otherwise your average joe is never going to make it to work.

I am inclined to believe you did not mean this to be a stupid thread when you posted this, I have faith you meant a speed change of maybe 10kmh for most freeways, otherwise the current speed limits are good enough, **** most people struggle to stop for the lights in 80 zones.

[Philthy]

Yes... increase speed limits. If we could go twice as fast, then we would be on the road half as long, and that means less driver fatigue =)

Haha, thats what I used to say when I first got my license (as a joke)
The faster you go, the less time you spend on the road, so there is less chance of having an accident