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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <37e3f893-d2ab-4aa2-800f-aa289fdc2718@r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: How to get speeding drivers to slow down. Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 12:06:41 -0700 (PDT) References:  <58d5e2d1-71b0-4de0-ba4d-409d864e5a79@t11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>     <77242eF1fkccoU2@mid.individual.net> Lines: 14 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.145.66.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242328001 8375 127.0.0.1 (14 May 2009 19:06:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 19:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.145.66.20; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2160 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:701452

On May 14, 9:29=A0am, "Dave Larrington"  wrote: > > It's a fail. =A0Any fule kno that looking at the speedometer, even for a > fraction of a second, causes an immediate fatal accident...

Fuck off. No-one's ever said that, you car-hating loon. If you knew anything about actual safe driving then you'd appreciate that lots of little unnecessary distractions, while being hardly noticeable in isolation, add up to an increased accident risk.

That's just one of the subtle concepts that some camera advocates are too stupid to grasp, and others pretend not to realise because it's inconvenient to them and their car-hating agenda to acknowledge it.