basingwerk wrote:
You appear to have conceded that in some circumstances, your statement could be false
followed by yet another BW dreamworld scenario
I haven't conceded anything.
My terms of reference were quite clearly set out earlier on in that thread:
Pete317 wrote:
It's true to say that more speed does increase the probability of a collision with another road user, because - due to braking distance increasing by the square of speed - you have a greater probability of being in the wrong place at the wrong time (the wrong place being anywhere within your total stopping distance of a hazard, and the wrong time being when that hazard is in your path) As such, your risk increases less than linearly with speed, ie twice the speed increases the risk less than twice.
and:
Pete317 wrote:
The only proviso is that the time between hazards is longer than the exposure time - but this is (almost) always the case. You're hardly likely to have two pedestrians independently stepping out in front of you within your stopping distance, and if that did happen then the two could be counted as a single hazard.
Both those postings were before your post which stated, in reply to the first one:
Basingwerk wrote:
You have that back to front. Most studies show that risk increases more than linearly with speed.
Try it for yourself. Pull into your drive at 15 mph, avoiding the children and the plant pots. Next, pull into your drive at 30 mph, and check how much damage you have done. Lastly, pull in at 60 mph, remembering to wear your seat belt this time. And open the garage door, else you’ll knock it down.
If your car is still driveable, repeat the experiment several times, and put the results up on this web site when you are quire sure that the risk of crashing when pulling into your drive at 60 mph is somewhat more that 4 times the risk at 15 mph! Good luck - you'll need it!
So who's sprouting crap now?
Try putting your brain in gear before you open your mouth in future.