| There is an amazing amount of hypocrisy and lack of proportion attached to the subject of speeding:
1. Police officers/public figures/celebrities on a regular basis getting away with speeding.
2. People in here banging on about it like andyb - presumably he never speeds on his 999 or in his car?
3. c. 4000 deaths per year (correct me on the figure if you wish - the actual number is not that important here within +/- 10k) attracts a massive focus yet we tolerate 100,000+ deaths a year and the attributable costs that go with smoking and passive smoking.
4. Umpteen thousand deaths per year due to pollution from many causes etc.
5. The lack of focus on bad drivers, dangerous vehicles and other traffic infringements (running red lights around here seems to have exploded with the frustrations of being stuck in traffic)
There's a whole host of inconsitencies in every day life (including those above) which, make a mockery of the near fanatical obsession that the authorities have with speeding vehicles.
If knocking on the door of the bereaved bothers AndyB so much (and what human wouldn't be bothered by it?) then he shouldn't do the job nor should he be supporting fallacious arguments in favour of the "speeding kills" lobby. If we were to follow that argument to their (as in the lobby's) logical conclusion then we would only ever walk anywhere.  |