These days the media has a huge influence on our lives and yet the media is so full of rubbish, it is difficult to sort the wit from the wisdom.
We are told that our roads are much safer now and it is all because of the continuous flow of rules and regulations imposed on drivers – rules and regulations that are making driving a chore rather than a pleasure. The fact that the automotive industry has introduced safety glass, crumple zones, collapsible steering columns, seat belts, air-bags and other safety features seems to be completely overlooked. And now we are told that reducing the tolerance for motorists exceeding the speed limit, has reduced the Queen’s Birthday weekend road toll. I would have thought that the rotten weather that kept everyone at home would have had a far greater influence. You don’t have to be very clever to work out that it is not simply speed that is the problem on our roads, it is speed related to where the car is positioned on the road. A car doing 120 clicks on the Takapau Plains is far safer than a car doing 80 clicks around a bend that should be taken at no more than 50.
If you can come up behind a car doing say 95 kilometres per hour and you pass them because you want to do 100 kilometres an hour which is the safest manoeuvre. Pulling out into the opposing lane, accelerating to 120k’s to get past quickly and return to your own side of the road as soon as possible or, sitting on the wrong side of the road for what seems an age as you crawl past the slow vehicle? I know what I prefer to do!
And talking about rubbish in the media, I wonder if you saw list MP, Stuart Nash’s comments in the HB Today last night. Talk about the old Michael Law’s trick of associating yourself with an event or events that have got nothing to do with you.
The article was real “politician speak”. It was full of, – “I would need to see” and “I would need to be”, type statements. Nash is quoted as saying that the decision to embark on an offshore drilling programme needed to be based on solid evidence surrounding the rationale for such a project.
Nowhere did he say he was for or against the project, nowhere did he say he had or hadn’t seen the things he wanted to see.
In fact, the press release was just a lame excuse for a politician to get his name and photo in the paper.
As I said earlier – the media is often full of rubbish.
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