Gordon wrote on Feb 11
th, 2018 at 8:01pm:
People like me with mad driving skills and a safe modern car should be allowed to drive faster than a gook who's just received their license and grips the wheel like death and aren't even relaxed enough to do a simple head check before changing lanes.
I agree to a certain extent - the highway near here and everywhere I head off to from here is a four lane with dividing strip about two lanes wide - mostly straight and easy..... a good driver in a modern car could do 160 like an autobahn on it, but that is verboten.
On the other hand - every time I drive it, it becomes a tangle whenever there are more than two cars near one another, for the simple reason that driving skills are not very good with the majority, who either drive slow or fast (I use cruise control at the limit), hog the right lane instead of overtaking and moving over etc, some (mostly brownskins) can't keep a steady speed, irritate you to death, and then match speed with you like they're magnetically attached when you overtake them so you can't open a gap and move to the left, many cut in close when overtaking like they're on Parramatta Road, and generally many do stupid sh1t like tail-gating or traveling in herds since they mostly drive in cities once a week and have no idea that a sudden stop at 110kph needs more space behind or a collision will occur. I like a good 50m in front and back, thanks, or I get toey. Don't start me on P Platers and the tradie utes (and some others) with the automatic 20kph over the limit overtaking the silly old bastard who won't do 'their' speed but sits right on the limit, and then cut in and slow down. Don't start me on the idiots who pull out in front of you to overtake a truck, and then sit on its 'wing' or half-way along it (DUUUH) because they're frightened to actually go past it...
We had a prang two ridges from here one day just before we got there - two wild horses ran in front of a truck, he slammed on brakes, still hit both, and one flew over into the right lane and hit a car.... both horses died, as did the car. Any fool traveling ten feet behind the car or truck would have run up their arse, but people do it all the time, thinking that no emergency stops ever happen out here.