Just saw an ad for Today Tonight... Speed limited car

[Ronin 09]

Those damn fools at channel seven...

Voiceover goes "Thousands of people are killed on the roads each year... now, a new invention that will halve that... a special story from the UK... a car where, even if you put your foot down... you can never exceed the speed limit"

WTF??

Again Naomi the midget uses sensationalism merely to sell ratings. The mentality that 'speed kills' is being advertised by the alleged 'current affairs' programs.

This further evidences the fact that Today Tonight / A Current Affair are merely tools for unresearched, blatent sensationalism purely for ratings.

Speed Kills? How many professional *race car* drivers are killed each year? The burocrats argue that they are 'trained professionals'. Well my contention is that a drivers' licence, in principle, should only be issued to those capable of being *safe* on the roads. It has been said numerous times before, but driver training saves lives. Speed does not kill. Poor drivers die. How many times can enthusiasts keep this up?

In my last irony, using a line from a current affair program that arguably seeded the scrounge of bull$hit current affair shows, i say SHAME.

/end rant*/

*disclaimer - for now

[sammus]

current affairs shows are utter bullshit. we studied them for 2 months and now i hate them all 'front line' was always great in illustrating this.

[Ronin 09]

Maybe an expose on current affairs shows is in order?

[Mr_G]

Even if they were to mass produce the car, just go find the ecu and cut the wire that takes of the limiter

[mcnamg]

who is going to expose the exposers

the only problem is that if they do this then most car makers will see it as an excuse to make cheaper i.e slower cars

[thunda]

may seem go in theory but lets face the facts that if theres a will you can get around any speed limiting device just a trucks do as there meant to be limited to 100kmh and there are plenty that exceed that speed :uh-huh:

[GTRgeoff]

And TT also bash the speed camera revenue raising...WTF? Anything for a headline.

www.roadsense.com.au has good info on the issues.

The trucks were limited in top gear so we would just run a little higher revs, drop a gear and go as fast as was necessary. With 20 gears in the rig it was no problems.

[CGB_R32]

Isnt it a proven theory that drivers concentrate harder when at higher speeds? i remeber reading it somewhere.

*goes to find where i read it from

Arnie voice: Ill be back

Michael

[Spook's_Skyline]

FRONTLINE

watch it

[lwells]

The only "current affairs" program worth watching (and even that's gone down hill lately) is the 7:30 Report.

Anyway, regarding T.T., here is sometthing I posted on another forum

In my area (Leichhardt -- inner-western Sydney) there has been a fuss over the erection of mobile phone towers in residential areas (the usual "microwaves will harm our children" type thing). There has been a community campaign (culminating in a protest) and attempts to lobby council to stop construction by Telstra (or its contractor).

Anyway, Today Tonight wanted to do a story on it so they spoke to the Mayor to see if she would agree to be in the story, which she did. However, Today Tonight wanted to stage a scene where "angry residents" would chase the Mayor down a street: the mayor refused, so TT pulled the story.

That's the kind of quality journalism they are into.

LW.

[Kutter]

speed don't kill...only when you hit something...

[martydaman]

what kinda of person would buy a car thats limited to 100kmph...

i want to see a car company invent a 100kmph limited sportscar... that would be funny

[Rekin]

arent some country roads 110km/h? So they are going to make cars which cant even reach the legal speed limit on certain roads....

[Ronin 09]

I *believe* the idea is to link the car via GPS that can determine the speed limit in the region you are in. Therefore, when you drive through a school area, your car will not reach a higher speed than 40.

Stupid idea really, what if there is an emergency situation where 'speed' can avert an accident? Would be pretty funny watching Mr 'A' hit Mr 'B' at a speed limited 40km/h

[R33vit]

It's not the speed but the sudden stop the kills.

T.T is full of $hit at the best of times. It will never happen and I wouldn't worry about it

[lwells]

I *believe* the idea is to link the car via GPS that can determine the speed limit in the region you are in. Therefore, when you drive through a school area, your car will not reach a higher speed than 40.

Stupid idea really, what if there is an emergency situation where 'speed' can avert an accident? Would be pretty funny watching Mr 'A' hit Mr 'B' at a speed limited 40km/h

TT was basically just picking up on the same info that was in this SMH article.

LW.

[FONZ]

You have no idea how much I hate today tonight. It's the pinacle of bad australian TV IMO

[Shell]

... a car where, even if you put your foot down... you can never exceed the speed limit

gee that'd be great.....so you're out on a single lane highway somewhere, the putz in front of you is doing 95km/h and you want to overtake but you can't go any faster than 100??? That's really safe...bring on the head-on collisions

[r33skylinegtst]

Today tonight is utter crap. If there is anyone here who hasn't watched Frontline i strongly suggest you do!

[INASNT]

Naomi is still hot but dumb as dog shit

As if anyone is gonna buy one those cars