I hereby grant you permission to open a can of SIAL on my ***

Sure it must have been posted before but I just got it at work and it made me chortle

Speed Campaign.

 

Yup, thread is going today. Large flaw in the logic of the sketch. See other thread for details.

 

Where's t'other thread? Did a search but I guess it's not been indexed yet Want to see the flaw

 

right at the top of general.

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=465351

 

Fekin blind as a bat me

Cheers dude

 

No, the logic is just fine, you make a whole load of assumptions in your claim:
1) The car carries on - he may be turning in to his drive a few yards later
2) He maintains the speed when it may not be safe to do so later
3) Another person will step in to the road without looking

 

The flaw is that the 'logic' is irrelevant. To say speeding saves lives uses the same logic that speeding kills. Both are wrong.

In the case of the vid, the speeding meant that he didn't run the chap over. In another situation, he ran someone else over. Or put it this way, walking fast/slow kills We're all concentrating on the speed of the car, what about the speed of the pedestrian

Anyway, the vid isn't meant to be serious, just a laugh.

 

Where ? WTF is this g-e-n-e-r-a-l you speak of

 

And funny it is.

I agree that "speed" is not what kills, I think that's kind of what it was trying to get across. Speed only becomes a factor once a collision / accident is unavoidable.

 

Can't open the video for some reason.

Lots of factors cause accidents of course and speed is just one of them. The faster you go the smaller the margins for escaping an accident and as Olly says, when you actually have one, the faster you are going, the worse the result is likely to be. You can't quote speed as the only cause but it is all part of it eventually.

Les

 

Arent car vs pedestrian accidents supposed to be 80% fatal? The pedestrian in the clip must be hard as nails, 'cos he obviously just dusts himself off and has another go at getting across.

Actually the most astonishing thing is that the 206 isn't totalled in the first one!!!!

 

lol

 

hmmmm - walking slow kills - new campaign - - TB is going to start fining people 60 quid for walking slow - that'll make him far more money that fining speeding motorists