pace car experiment in USA, shocking

[Parrot of Doom]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc

Ok so its a shit video, but just watch the behaviour of other road users as this group of people keep rigidly to the speed limit.

[matchless]

time to re take up motorcycling then with reg plates cloned from a Police bike?

[ripton]

i'm amazed that they founf it so ammusing that they had engineered a situation that resulted in someone coliding with a stationary vehicle

overhere that would be applauded by the lentlist green animal rights terrorists

[Raffles]

But that's just like the go slow protest loads of PHers took part in last year, against the motorway speed cameras.

[Andy Mac]

These people are arguing that the speed limit is too slow. The same as the PH protest. Hats off to them. And they were not breaking he law, and you want to blame them for creating a situation where collisions may occur? What does that say about the speed limit??

[ripton]

Point taken about their motivation, missed the bit about it being a protest against a low speed limit - had the sound on low after listening to Tom baker saying rude things

The thing that got my back up was the fact they found the incidident with the car on the hard shoulder so amusing.

IIRC the PH go slow was done somewhat more responsibly and with a bit of coordination with the authorities. Slighty different to a bunch of kids who seemed to be doing it for their own amusement.

Chris

[off_again]

Facinating - clear evidence that a safe motorway / highway is one that flows - not one that has an artificially enforced speed limit set too low. Sometimes its better to have people just moving on by, not bunched up where conflict and mistakes can happen.

Same the morons in this country dont realise that this is the case - maybe they should try it and see what happens....

[Jay GTI]

Raffles said:

But that's just like the go slow protest loads of PHers took part in last year, against the motorway speed cameras.

It's nothing like the speed camera protest, on that we were clearly instructed to leave the fast lane clear so that people who wanted to continue without being part of our protest could do so.