Looks like Ineos will have to add more tech in Oz

[RYAustralia]

If we don’t push back on bubblewrapping everyone and every activity, we are telling our lawmakers that we want fewer freedoms and even more regulations. A statistically safe future may be worse than a free and risky one IMO.

I am surprised to see such risk-aversion and bubblewrap-loving on a 4x4 forum.

Well said. Learn to drive properly, take appropriate rest stops, don’t drive fatigued or under the influence. And then nanny aids aren’t necessary. Freedom was hard fought, now being so easily lost.

 

[RYAustralia]

Don't be too harsh on yourself @Commodore. Allusion is not totally invalid the way you used it, albeit unintentionally.

allusion (noun). An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Illusion (noun). An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience.

But illusion is the better choice here because COVID made us ill.

And in some cases was
delusion: a false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions.

 

[HereinDaRockies]

I disagree. Personal responsibility and proper care when driving is what keeps people alive.

How do you affect that in a statistically meaningful way? In other words how do you influence society’s sense of responsibility?

I am focusing on realistic tactical solutions. Not some aspirational idea driven by philosophical principles

 

[DenisM]

How do you affect that in a statistically meaningful way? In other words how do you influence society’s sense of responsibility?

I am focusing on realistic tactical solutions. Not some aspirational idea driven by philosophical principles

The paradox is that the more "tactical" solutions are introduced, the more drivers seemingly become detached from the need to be fully attentive to the task at hand....

 

[TheDocAUS]

The paradox is that the more "tactical" solutions are introduced, the more drivers seemingly become detached from the need to be fully attentive to the task at hand....

They are no longer driver aids, but driver distractions. Thanks to the Nanny State.

I do not need any politician to dictate how I drive. A recipe for disaster. However, they are experts at grifting off the taxpayer.

 

[Max]

In other words how do you influence society’s sense of responsibility?

We have to go back to the future.
Let the children climb trees again and put the swing back into the park...falling is climbing/jumping and missing...the children will soon learn not to miss.
Practice makes perfect, we must give them the chance to practice. Injury was just part of growing up. Today, injury is someone elses fault, the blame game. So the law will stop the injury before it can happen. Pathetic.

PS I wrote this waiting for an Ambulance, I have a splinter in my finger from climbing a tree

 

[Max]

I had forgotten about this but I was sanding by hand a piece of timber to stop splinters and this little beauty went straight through the sandpaper and through my finger, one side to the other. It was presented to me in the blue lid container noting that is was the largest of anything to be removed from a person's anatomy at the surgery this year so far. Just under an inch[22mm]to start with but whittled down during removel and I am suing the sandpaper company

 

[Jean Mercier]

... and I am suing the sandpaper company

If you were in the USA you could get some millions if you win