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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Improvements in Road Safety |
| briesmith |
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:49
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Personally, they could take my car away and make me pull a rickshaw; I still wouldn't touch the BNP.
But there you go; that's politics. |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Improvements in Road Safety |
| briesmith |
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 16:57
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| It's a couple of years since I last posted and I thought it would be interesting to review what's happened in the intervening period. Firstly, and out of nowhere, we have had the Downing Street petition. For the first time the always silent majority actually had their say. And the effect was amazing... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Improvements in Road Safety |
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 13:46
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| As ever I don't have the figures but I believe that uninsured, unqualified drivers, drivers under the influence of drink and drugs and drivers in stolen cars ("joyriders" etc) are involved in a significant proportion of road accidents and car related crime. Most of these are not professional crimina... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Improvements in Road Safety |
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:08
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| PIN technology is rapidly overtaking the old fashioned or traditional ignition key. Once a driver logged into a vehicle (in order to start it) then that vehicle would radiate that driver's PIN whenever it passed a checkpoint using RFID technology. The system would check the driver's ID with the Crim... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Improvements in Road Safety |
| briesmith |
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:33
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| The list of safety measures given in one of the earlier replies to my post is much more comprehemsive than mine but really just says what I said but better. Unregistered, unlicensed, "shouldn't be there" drivers are an obvious first target for road traffic control. An illegal driver or vehicle would... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Improvements in Road Safety |
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 16:25
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| You describe how Smeed's equations failed, and put forward your own as a better alternative, beause he didn't know about the constant stream of engineering led advances in road and vehicle safety that would be a factor in motoring over the last 40 years. I'm sure you are right and for two reasons: c... |
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