Drivers Face Ban On Driving In Cars

- Paul - · 05-16-2007, 03:10 PM

BRITAIN’S top road safety campaigners are demanding a ban on ‘driving at the wheel’ in an attempt to cut the number of car crashes.

Death machine psychopath
Evidence proves that almost all serious motor accidents involve at least one moving vehicle containing a person with his or her hands on a steering wheel.

The campaigners claim all accidents would stop overnight if these people were banned from touching steering wheels completely, and restricted to sitting in their cars and smoking instead.

Bill Tweedle, a leading authority on road safety in Britain, said: “It is so obvious we cannot understand why no one has banned it already. I mean, have you ever seen a car crash itself?

“Human beings are basically incapable of simultaneously performing complex tasks such as looking where they are going and not driving full speed kamikaze-style into rock hard objects.

“It’s a scientific fact that travelling at over five miles per hour starves the brain of oxygen and deforms the internal organs. It’s not natural, and women in particular should not do it.”

Mr Tweedle said the campaigners had compiled a dossier of evidence linking driving at the wheel to car crashes that it would pass to the Departments of Health and Transport this week.

He said: “We left an old car with no engine or wheels in the middle of a field for two years and not once was it involved in a fatal collision. How much more proof do you want?”

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/n...s-20070513141/

mjh93sa · 05-16-2007, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 1stnewcar

The campaigners claim all accidents would stop overnight if these people were banned from touching steering wheels completely, and restricted to sitting in their cars and smoking instead.

Surely that contravenes some section of the smoking ban that comes into force in July

bob mushroom · 05-16-2007, 05:14 PM

Fantastic Hands free driving - I wonder will my nokia be compatible

iatacs19 · 05-16-2007, 05:20 PM

We can't all afford a Lexus LS460 with auto-park, cruise range control, lane departure control and brake assist...

mjh93sa · 05-16-2007, 06:12 PM

How sick do you think these guys were when they saw that the spray shop mis-spelled the "Hannsfree" logo?

NFS · 05-17-2007, 06:26 AM

Frankly it's about time that the government did something about all these people driving cars into things.

It's all that Tony Blairs fault.

squeezebm · 05-17-2007, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by needforspeed

Frankly it's about time that the government did something about all these people driving cars into things.

It's all that Tony Blairs fault.

i Blame Gordon Browm

NFS · 05-17-2007, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by squeezebm

i Blame Gordon Browm

Same difference

dxb335d · 05-17-2007, 11:44 AM

HILARIOUS

SoYank · 05-18-2007, 05:46 PM

I guess this goes along the same lines as one of the last acts of Tony Blair. Seems the EU is insisting that the drivers in Great Britain start driving on the same side of the road as the rest of Europe. And since TB is so pro-Europe, he has relented. But, not to worry, it will be phased in in two steps. The first week is motorcoaches and lorries.

ES-Jet · 05-20-2007, 03:47 AM

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Originally Posted by iatacs19

We can't all afford a Lexus LS460 with auto-park, cruise range control, lane departure control and brake assist...

Did anyone see the Lexus on 5th Gear? The lane departure system looked a bit violent.

NFS · 05-21-2007, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by ES-Jet

Did anyone see the Lexus on 5th Gear? The lane departure system looked a bit violent.

I thought it looked rubbish - the car was already a foot over the line before it reacted.

agh! · 05-21-2007, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by SoYank

I guess this goes along the same lines as one of the last acts of Tony Blair. Seems the EU is insisting that the drivers in Great Britain start driving on the same side of the road as the rest of Europe. And since TB is so pro-Europe, he has relented. But, not to worry, it will be phased in in two steps. The first week is motorcoaches and lorries.

I accept on two conditions:

1. everyone else in the EU pays for an army of road builders to convert the road network overnight
2. that morning they deliver a shiney new left hand drive BMW to my specification at my house

Simple.

SoYank · 05-21-2007, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agh!

I accept on two conditions:

1. everyone else in the EU pays for an army of road builders to convert the road network overnight
2. that morning they deliver a shiney new left hand drive BMW to my specification at my house

Simple.

On condition 1, I think you missed the point. Try again.

mjh93sa · 05-21-2007, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ES-Jet

Did anyone see the Lexus on 5th Gear? The lane departure system looked a bit violent.

5th Gear? That's on that new fangled channel 5 thingy isn't it? Don't get that out 'yer in the sticks

SoYank · 05-26-2007, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by mjh93sa

5th Gear? That's on that new fangled channel 5 thingy isn't it? Don't get that out 'yer in the sticks

Probably don't have running water and indoor plumbing, either, huh.

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