Does speed kill?

Orch said:
100%. I can never believe this isn't the case. Madness. Should include motorway driving as well. They are all very different.
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As someone has already stated, though, the chances are that most people learning to drive will experience these conditions given British weather and large proportion of the year where it's dark after 7pm.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
As someone has already stated, though, the chances are that most people learning to drive will experience these conditions given British weather and large proportion of the year where it's dark after 7pm.
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I was taking my lessons when it was getting dark at 4:30-5. It was a harrowing experience, but it made me a better driver for sure :)
 
Doing 50 in a 20 zone is a sure way of getting yourself or others killed, on my road in the dead of night ie midnight afterwards we get a lot of these big mercedes and bmw's ripping down the road. Its quite annoying when you are trying to sleep and you hear the roar of a V8 or V12 hammering it down my road.
 
MooMoo444 said:
I was taking my lessons when it was getting dark at 4:30-5. It was a harrowing experience, but it made me a better driver for sure :)
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I started mine in March last year, between 19:00 till 20:00. Pitch black on my first lesson. I loved it. I much prefer driving in the dark.
 
I can't recall the exact figure, but there was some official statistics that showed excessive speed to be a direct contributing factor in only about 6% of accidents.

Inattention, tiredness, poor driver training and poor vehicle maintenance are all far bigger killers.

It is blindingly obvious that going faster will make the results of any collision more severe, but I would argue that if you took away all of the distractions (music, passengers, tiredness etc etc) you'd see a much bigger impact on road casualty rates than has been evidenced by the continuing obsession with speed enforcement.
 
Depends which way you look at it I reckon, If it wasn't for how fast we orbited the Sun we'd all be dead so Speed Saves. :p
 
I would argue that speed is not the real root cause, people are. I long for the future day when I can get in my car and simply say "take me home" and then relax whilst my computer-controlled vehicle, with multiple sensors that react at far higher speeds that I possibly could, does all the work. :)
 
Reaper 392 said:
No, speed doesn't kill, its slowing down really quickly that kills you :p

Seriously though, its pretty much common sense that the faster you or the people around you go, the more serious the injury would be if you bumped into each other
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checjb said:
I would argue that speed is not the real root cause, people are. I long for the future day when I can get in my car and simply say "take me home" and then relax whilst my computer-controlled vehicle, with multiple sensors that react at far higher speeds that I possibly could, does all the work. :)
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Running embedded Windows. BSOD at 100MP/H with lots of other vehicles all safely cruising at 100... :D
 
dirtychinchilla said:
As someone has already stated, though, the chances are that most people learning to drive will experience these conditions given British weather and large proportion of the year where it's dark after 7pm.
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Rain perhaps, but I'd say most people have lessons in the day light.
 
Bad drivers and those driving inappropriately for the conditions kill. Im more comfortable driving faster than slow. When driving slow with cruise control on for example I find it's very easy to become distracted. Speed keeps you focused.
 
Speed doesn't kill.

I could be traveling at 100mph all day long and not die.

It's excessively rapid acceleration/deceleration beyond the tolerances of the human body that kills.
 
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