Hey Guys- I totally agree about that the overtaking speed should be leniant- Here are some of my thoughts.......
I worked it out one time that if a car was traveling at 80kmph and a car overtakes it traveling 100kmph it would take like 30-40 seconds to pass. Ill have to sit down one day and apply some stuff I learnt in maths and physics and prove it- but until that day ill just say that overtaking at 100kmph is simply put dangerous.
If the rules were changed everyone would speed in the passing lanes
so im really not sure what to think.... Maybe the LTSA needs to have a chat to the police and prehaps increase the leaniency in the passing situation.
Then would come the problem of consistancy of the law - which is the problem at the moment- you see that different people have different interpretations of what is and isnt safe. For example one police officer may see a car overtaking on a short passing lane exceeding speeds of 150kmph, the officer thinks understands it to be safe and lets the guy off with a warning.
Then you will get another cop that will have a totally different view on the situation and therefore you will lose consistancy of the law.
Therefore guys- Even if I sat down for a decent amount of time and did a few formulae and wrote a big letter to the LTSA nothing would change because logistically to change and enforce these rules would be a nightmare for the police. Its something that you could fight however I dont think it is worth the time and money that you will spend trying to get the LTSA to see your point of view.
I can only hope that the police will use their judgement to see what is and isn't safe because there wouldn't be a point of having police we might as well have a computer that has millions of speed cameras all over the country so that whenever someone breaks the speed limit they automatically get a ticket not adding any factors like weather- trafic density and all the stuff that makes up the safeness of the road.
What does everyone else think?
