malcolmw wrote:
David Neave, Co-operative Insurance’s general insurance director wrote:
“People often don’t think about the dangers of driving a few miles an hour over the limit. But that can mean the difference between having a safe journey or a collision, and whether you survive or not,” said Mr Neave.
He added: “Like drink driving, speeding reduces a driver’s ability to judge hazards and to react to them. There needs to be a shift in people’s attitudes to speeding, so it becomes as socially unacceptable as drink driving.”
I hadn't read this article until you extracted this quote.
Quite incredible inaccuracy and spin.
The reason that people "don't think about the dangers of driving a few miles an hour over the limit" is that it isn't dangerous.
Speeding "reduces a driver's ability to judge hazards" does it. How exactly?
Utter tosh.
That's why I extracted it. I know it sounds 'truthy' to duh-masses, but that just proves the sorry state of driver education.
Besides better driver education, there also needs to be a shift in people's attitudes about BS, so that it becomes socially unacceptable to flap your mouth immediately after you've stuffed your head up your own behind, covering up the truth with offal, getting it all in our faces, and pickpocketing us while we're cleaning our faces.
If - for some strange reason - he doesn't know better, then he should. Someone who works for him does in fact know that what he just said is both a lie, and an insidious piece of misinformation designed to program sheeple and other induviduals to pressure others into believing the lie - and has the facts and figures to prove it [though they'd probably lose their job if they ewver leaked such info].
Every time a person in such a position lets fly forth such ... humbug ... it's very difficult for me to believe that they aren't lying 'with malice aforethought'.
I don't know how I'd discover this, but I wouldn't be surprised if he stood to profit from camera revenues separately from insurance premium increases; why would he say such a thing otherwise?