NSFW: Topless Roadsigns

[azekeil]

Now this is what I call progress!

Trouble is, I suspect they'd die of hypothermia over here..

Comments

[nemy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it would cause lots of accidents. But at least most men, involved in said accidents, would die happy.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Look at the video they link to! ;)

[nairoz.livejournal.com]

Very old video (why has the Register only just found it now?!), but always a classic :D

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

I'd assume that the UK's warmer than Denmark?

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Really? Perhaps that's why they're so perky ;)

[theeighth.livejournal.com]

Heheh.
I will drive fast regardless!!
No matter what the beautiful ... girl... with... boobies... telling... me... to slow... down... says...

Hmm... I think I'd drive slower, if just so that I could look at boobies for longer.
Hey! here's a suggestion, giant page-3 posters at accident blackspots, so people who drive fast drive slower to look at the boobies for longer.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Of course there is the danger that those driving too fast get distracted by b00bage and crash anyway.. possibly into the girl herself.. :S

[theeighth.livejournal.com]

I think the only way to actually solve the speeding problem will be to make driving really fast unenjoyable or impossible.

But in the meantime, boobies! WOOO! ( . )( . )

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I think the only way to solve the speeding problem is to re-educate the people who consider that speed is what kills people, rather than bad judgement.

[theeighth.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... true, but that's overlooking that lower speeds ARE more forgiving for lapses in judgement (which everybody has one of every now and then) than higher speeds, because at a basic level there is more time between judgement failure and potential correction at a lower speed.

While vehicular separation could be used to the same effect (and is used in some other european countries), this is only of use in certain situations (ie. motorways) where there is little probability of perpendicular traffic (ie things running out into the road).

Even if we were just talking accidents caused by freak occurences with everyone of equal capability of driving, accidents are still going to happen. In these situations a lower speed is less likely to be lethal, just because of the whole momentum-exchange-of-kinetic-energy-deal. Which when you're talking about suburban roads with children etc. is the real concern.

The DSA certifies only that people are safe to drive at nationally agreed legal speeds. Even then I think it's only about 8% of driving students that are sufficiently skilled to pass on their first attempt. You can't raise a bar because some exceptional people would be able to exceed that speed safely, as you're mixing road users together in a single road network.

Heheh. 'course that doesn't stop me speeding.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

I completely understand all the problems with regulation and of course the problems with lapses in judgement. At the end of the day if you speed in an area where it's inappropriate then that's a lapse in judgement..

It's just I disagree with the prevailing attitude towards speed that means that even if it's a deserted motorway, the speed limit is still 70mph.

I'd love to see an advanced driving course which meant that you didn't automatically get prosecuted for excess speed.. but I think that would just be too much of a headache for the govt to implement.