Re: Re: Scary road riding.

[Anonymous]

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Dean wrote,”Us Kiwis are happy with our driving why should we change and have draconian laws from other countries.”My answer to that is another old chestnut: if all you other Kiwi drivers/riders are so much better than average, then I must really be piss poor to drag the standard down as low as it is on our roads.The ability of people who should not be in charge of a cake mixer, let alone something as potentially lethal as a motor vehicle, to get out on the roads in this country is astonishing.Don't even think of getting me started on firearms law or domestic violence.Our society has some really BAD behavioural patterns, and our driving is RIGHT up there.-Compulsory insurance, yes.-ACC levy included in the price of fuel, yes: let's see all the unlicensed vehicles avoid the levy then.-Difficult to enforce when there are no 'service' stations left in the big cities, all self serve and prepay: no fuel to go in an unlicensed/uninsured vehicle.Those three moves would take a lot of the rubbish vehicles off the road, and a lot of the rubbish (?)drivers(?) with them.Then we would have to find some cure for the arrogant rich who happily pay their fines and go on ignoring the road code 'cos they can afford it.Then someone could shoot me, and the two other below average drivers in the entire population of the country, and all your problems would go away.If you think we have no problem, then you are part of the problem.