omg!

Speeding on a crossbackroad like that is stupid, yes.

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Sick vid though, asif they would ever show that on TV ;>

take your pill and calm down

that was orgasmic! speeding pwns!

This is a stupid advert because the issue is driving recklessly and without paying enough attention, the focus purely on speed is misplaced.

don't let thought get in your way, sir. take your pill (the one that the government prescribes to you to control your thoughts) and calm down.

Children don't make very good trolls I'm afraid.

you're probably the biggest one I've ever seen, though, so that kind of conflicts.

Weak.

get a life.

Raged.

hey guys. fragmaster sure does like being a little sheep. way 2 go bro ur government controls your thoughts with shit like this.

The point is, that hazards such as the one in the video can happen EVEN if you are not driving recklessly and are paying full attention. However, if the speed limits are obeyed, then the damage done in these situations will be greatly reduced.

It would be a lovely world if the only cause of accidents were reckless/unattentionate drivers. Fact is, that is not the case.

People should be keeping to speed limits, I didn't say otherwise but if you want to reduce deaths then attention and care is the issue, not speed. These campaigns always erroneously focus on speed when data from people like the AA show that this isn't the main cause of accidents.

The point is pointless, if a car hits your legs against a wall at 20 mph or 40 mph you don't have any legs.

Yes, both issues are a problem, this ad is targeting speed limits. There is similar data, showing life and death differences on whether you are hit at 20mph or 40mph. At 20mph, that car might not even touch your legs, while at 40mph it will mangle them.

Of course reckless driving needs to be combated too, although that is harder to define and educate. It is a very gray area; even someone who is driving after an argument with their partners can be reckless drivers (my mum and my friend both crashed their cars under those circumstances). Then there are the obvious people who drive under the influence of drugs etc.

Keeping to the speed limits is easy to state and follow, there are no subjective situations, it is a very simple measure, and it does save lives and minimize / completely prevent accidents. There should be similar ads targeting reckless drivers (there probably are).

But, there will be accidents even if there are 0 reckless drivers.

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not true. crashes happen even when the driver is driving perfectly. Even if they are all driving perfectly.

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Agh, im not gonna argue, believe what you want.

Although this video deals with speed, imagine a similar situation where all drivers are driving correctly, fully aware and under the speed limit. A dog can run out from an unnoticable location, and cause an accident. No matter how good and slow the people are driving. A large amount of accidents come from unpredictalble situations.

Not true dird.

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What vehicle? Have you driven a car son?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pviR-DwmGJE

wow!

lol! the other drivers mustve been like wtffff

If you liked that, these japanese are even more crazy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9imQRJNQko

tough choice, speeding is fun...hmm

After a few accidents you tend to slow down anyway, I went from average 160km/h to 100km/h after a bad accident, which was about 2 years ago, I still don't go above 100km/h.

Average 160km/h? Did you live on a speedway or something?

I was 20 and I had a fast car :P

You don't have police in Africa?

Been stopped loads of times without a ticket "we're after drink drivers, just watch your speed - be on yer way". The police only care if you're drunk or driving wrecklessly, long as you avoid the speed cameras.

Doesn't happen over here mate. Was busted a couple of years back driving at 115km/h in a 90km/h zone. Sure didn't let me off :(
No wonder so many foreigners are busted for speeding over here if your police is like that :o

Police? hahahahahaha

We were once pulled over for sppeding in Tunesia. And yes my dad was too fast, but the policeman had nop way of proving it. So my dad just kept "Non" and "pas trop vite" for five minutes.
The he let us of without even having paid a bribe :P

its africa dude :P

do you as real average or only the average when driving faster?

Cause my highest average on a longer journey was 125 and yes I am German and we did go up to 230 topspeed, legally of couse =)

did that guy die?

Yes.

hmm i should have asked.. did he die on the spot or later on in the hospital? i couldn't tell.

probably both

still i agree with ix, stupid advert

both? he respawned?

It might be a violent advert, but you cannot call it FALSE. I mean its a FACT that if you drive your car WAY too fast it will be close to impossible to react on most situations because a) people arent good enough drivers, and b) their cars arent made to be able to dodge stuff that happen instantly at 140km/h.
Most people I talk to that want higher speedlimits are people who strives to drive as fast as very possible every chance they get, that is without being a good driver. People tend to overestimate their driving skills WAY too much, and for some reason think they can do 90 degree turns at 150 km/h like someone from a Need For Speed game.

Not seen many argue for higher speed limits in residential areas where you've something to react to. But on the motorway you're basically driving straight with little distraction, assuming you keep a safe distance everything should be fine.

There's no reason why it should be 70 over 80 or 90 other than slower is safer in an accident, which begs the question why 70 not 60...

Where I live people driving like 120 in residential areas is not too uncommon. Quite often they are young BMW owners :)
Besides, if you've ever been in an accident (like, full frontal hit) you will know how hard it is to avoid hits when you are surprised. Animals getting hit in sweden are quite common because we have alot of forrests etc. Even something like that can actually be lethal and completely destroy your front end, and obviously kill the poor moose :(. Alot of the times its simply the driver underestimating the speed, and overestimating his ability/car.
Obviously not all the time though, sometimes you cannot avoid whatever accident happens, but driving faster WILL make it harder, thats a fact :)

worse things happen at sea

Ahahahaha! That smashed guy probably forgot to took his MegaHealth :D

LOL, freezeframe at 0.08, guy spunks girl in the face with saliva haha ;D.Also I think the vid gives a skewed view of speeding, speeding is fun. Only thing (you do not) learn from this video is you shouldnt go through farms in 150mph in the british countryside lol

I love reading the comments that say "speeding is fun", seriously, absolute fucking idiots. If you have a child like mentality then you shouldn't be given access to an extremely dangerous piece of machinery, if you want to drive fast when nobody else is around, be my guest, when you're risking other people's lives as well as your own, fuck off you fucking gobshite. And no, that "I can handle it" bullshit doesn't work, chances are you aren't a trained stunt driver, and even if you are, keep it in the work place.

As for the video, we have shit like that on the TV all the time really, I don't really pay attention though because it's just common sense.

Well, driving fast is fun. Speeding just comes with it. =P Anyways, I usually keep myself to the speedlimits.

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Oh good that was worth potentially killing someone.

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If there's no risk there's no rush? Risk your own life, not others, seriously what kind of retarded mentality is that?

Also your dad's a good driver is he? Explain why.

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You did say there was another car around.

And that doesn't make him a good driver, you could argue that I'm a good lion wrestler 'cause I've never been beaten.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

Actually the nazi comparison would be the inverse, Frei Farte für eine Frei Volk :D

your dad wasnt giving enough space between himself and the merc then, cant blame it on the other bloke for having abs lol

and also he probably wouldn't have hit the merc if he wasn't going so fast?

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fuck yea. if the bloke in front of you can see your registration plates you're too far away. and abs is for noobs anyway.

you got an adrenaline rush going 100mph down a dual carriageway? jesus christ you need to step outside your front door more often you fucking hermit

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speeding is fun

agree

Wish they had more ads like these on the television. Smack people in the face with the reality of the concequences that could happen.

Not that I watch alot of television tho.

the msg should be, dont speed with shit cars
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Well I rarely speed on highways. Actually I'm so focused on my fuel economy I drive about 48-50 mph in 65mph zones (79km/h & 105km/h respectively) I usually don't go above 80km/h. Other drivers don't hate me that much.

When my car was new though I was interested in seeing it's performance as it is quite sporty being a manual transmission. Even then it was mostly going around corners at high speed or hard acceleration until I hit the speed limit. I only went over 160 km/h like twice with it and once to test it's top speed.

One of those times described above I was cornering at the limit of grip and hit a patch of sandy grit on the road and went into a slide I had done a 180 in my lane and left huge skid marks before I was stopped. I was probably going 70ish km/h downhill. That was scary but not dangerous there was no traffic and nothing really that I could have hit near by.

It just shows you don't have to go that fast to fuck up. Especially when you're an inexperienced driver. I wouldn't mind if the speed limit were 55mph (90km/h) on all roads in this country, but it would never happen. By the way that would be more for saving energy than reducing accidents. I think driving while drunk and the easy driving exams that we have are responsible for many more accidents. (i.e.: drive around for 8 minutes on residential streets and in parking lots with a automatic transmission car and you pass if you obey the laws and can park.)

This video is good: speed can kill

I hate people who drive slow over everything else. I've now decided to make you my mortal enemy!

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I just get better gas mileage below 50mph.

I stay in the slowest lane and just let people pass me.

I knew people here were going to think lowly of that.

But in all the months since I started driving this way I have never seen somebody give me the middle finger after they passed me.

I do try and be considerate though if the traffic is getting heavy and people can't easily pass me I'll speed up to 60mph until the cars are less dense and no one will get stuck behind me.

I'm not driving this slow for any other reason than saving gasoline and thus money and the environment. I am in no way illusioned to think going 50 on the highway will make me actually a safer driver than those going the speed limit. I've got to be just as alert and attentive as everyone else.

Well, if possible I drive 180km/h on the autobahn. But thats not really the problem. The problem are 18 year old morons that just got their licence and think they can drive. Due to my work I drive 1000km's a week, and I often see those guys taking risky overtakes, getting too close on high speeds and driving too fast on country roads with huge trees to the left and right..... I think speed limiting wont prevent them from doing this. In some cases a huge tree does though.....

i love how everyone is acting all cool and stuff.

cars are boring

Did what happen in the video was the punk in the civic went out to pass, then a dog ran into his lane, and even though he wasn't even half ahead of the orange car he swerved. Then somehow his car lifted up, rolled about 15 times and was unlucky enough to come to rest pwning that dude against the way?

That's a very dumb decision... why not just hit the dog.

And then the driver of the orange car was slow in the head too, after he flipped the civic he just continues on his merry little way as if like "yeah happens all the time" Then nearly 3 seconds later after he drifts out of his lane and isn't watching the road he head-ons another car. The driver of that one had to have seen what was happening up ahead for just as long. Neither made any attempt to hit their brakes it seems.

Not even the girl was smart she saw what was happening for 2 seconds, give a .3 second reaction time (non gamer) as if she couldn't have jumped up and out of the way in 1.7s time.

The video is should be renamed what do you get when you put 3 poor drivers on a road, let something unexpected happen and then throw in a ton of bad luck. They should show commercials of real life fatal accidents so it doesn't look as staged.

nothing wrong with speeding on the empty autobahn.

I'd run over the dog. wtf.

hell id run over the dog anyday if i was speeding, too bad for him he should cross when the sign is green anyway :)

Yeah what was he thinking not using his advanced reasoning abilities to notice a green light even though he's supposedly colour blind.