Paulatic wrote:AFAC2198-17A8-406C-AEC7-7497276A183B.jpeg
Nothing surprises me about this guy.
He uses the brakes instead of the gears to check speed downhill!
Is this comparable to swapping points? Should he have tried to keep it secret?
Paulatic wrote:AFAC2198-17A8-406C-AEC7-7497276A183B.jpeg
Nothing surprises me about this guy.
meic wrote:Two million drivers are caught speeding per year.
I havent had a ticket since the 1980s but it could happen to me tomorrow if I was driving somewhere new or they changed the limit on a regular route.
Some drivers get a ticket because they are always speeding.
Some drivers obey the law to the best of their ability and get unlucky
Some drivers obey the law to the best of their ability and stay lucky.
The only ones immune from getting a ticket are those who dont drive.
It's very easy to obey the speed limits
I never break the limits. Why would I?
meic wrote:Self-serving in what way?It's very easy to obey the speed limits
It's as easy as riding a bike. I dont fall off my bike because I pay attention to not doing so. However I might fall off my bike one day.
Same with obeying the speed limits, its easy to do but I am not arrogant enough to think that I cant slip up once or twice in my life. Anybody who claims they havent got a speeding ticket purely through paying attention and hasnt also had some luck, is deluding themselves.
Cugel wrote:meic wrote:Self-serving in what way?It's very easy to obey the speed limits
It's as easy as riding a bike. I dont fall off my bike because I pay attention to not doing so. However I might fall off my bike one day.
Same with obeying the speed limits, its easy to do but I am not arrogant enough to think that I cant slip up once or twice in my life. Anybody who claims they havent got a speeding ticket purely through paying attention and hasnt also had some luck, is deluding themselves.
What other activities of a dangerous and potentially highly-damaging or even lethal kind do you perform in the hope that your inattention or incompetence can be excused because you were "unlucky"? Whilst I agree that no human is perfect, there's a difference between excusing yourself (in a self-serving fashion) from responsibility because lady luck frowned at you and admitting that you may still make mistakes.
If the activity involved is so dangerous hat you feel yourself potentially unable to perform it safely you should either get better at it or give it up. Of course millions don't, with the car; and so we have the "accident" statistics we do, emblematic of a vast sea of harm and misery wreaked not by dangerous self-serving fools, apparently, but by victims of lady luck.
I do have sympathy with the notion that not even I am infallible. However, I take that lack seriously and don't attempt to excuse my incompetence with references to an imaginary luck distributor. One must become competent or give it up.
Cugel
in the hope that your inattention or incompetence can be excused because you were "unlucky"
pwa wrote:I'm not saying I wasn't wrong, but is that mistake so bad that it merits finger pointing?
meic wrote:Two million drivers are caught speeding per year.
I havent had a ticket since the 1980s but it could happen to me tomorrow if I was driving somewhere new or they changed the limit on a regular route.
Some drivers get a ticket because they are always speeding.
Some drivers obey the law to the best of their ability and get unlucky
Some drivers obey the law to the best of their ability and stay lucky.
The only ones immune from getting a ticket are those who dont drive.
meic wrote:I was no more dangerous than when I went down there the time before at 40mph legally, which isnt a judgement on what the speed limit should be, it just illustrates that the accidental speeding was not a leap from safe to dangerous, merely crossing a line drawn through a statistical scatter. I was just as dangerous perfectly legally the time before but thats fine.