RE: I'm an arrogant sod with a beemer (was Symantec - Virus Warning Bulletin)

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerard McGovern [mailto:stuff@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 May 2002 23:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] I'm an arrogant sod with a beemer (was Symantec -
Virus Warning Bulletin)

>Actually, I'm quite invovled with the party who have a penchant for
>yellow. I'll let you make your mind up on that one.

The SNP? Why Gerard, perhaps there's a future for us after all! :)

>I agree with you on the "vehicle class" system too. Power in = the wrong
>hands can be lethal.

As a biker turned car-driver, I find the whole notion of passing a driving<= BR> test, then "pop" legal to drive everything just a nonsense. I thi= nk it was a
big step *backwards* When direct Access for 21+ was introduced (for those unfamiliar, the government allowed   guys with middle age crises = to go out
and buy any bike, including today's 200mph+ machines after a simple
one-stage) and it's had the expected effect: lots more fatalities etc in this age group.

Personally I think we need more training and safety checks, (like staged licences with bhp limits for set periods after passing each stage, a repeat=
mini-driving test every five years, mandatory annual eye checks etc) and less focus on speed as the only factor.

I wonder why it is that any group of reasoned people I have ever seen speak=
about this settles down to "drop the speed limit in towns and raise it= to
German levels on the Motorways"?

A nice compromise between protecting people, and teating them as adults
perhaps?

>Also, I have some fairly radical ideas about vehichle tax, insurance an= d
>petrol, but I don=92t think you'd like those :-)

I wouldn't be so sure:
I suspect most people can see that the current system is fatally flawed.
Ian.

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