Speed Addiction

[deecay]

Is speed(driving not the drug) considered a addiction? Theres rehab for addiction to drugs and alcohol but not speed?Personally I think these speed junkies should be considered in the same light,they are addicted and need help.

Thoughts?

[Sligo Hornet]

Is speed(driving not the drug) considered a addiction? Theres rehab for addiction to drugs and alcohol but not speed?Personally I think these speed junkies should be considered in the same light,they are addicted and need help.

Thoughts?

I have just taken delivery of a new BMW M3 Coupe..........PLEASE HELP ME!!

[joeSoap]

It's not an addiction, its a reckless abandonment of common sense. An addiction as in the case of drink, drugs or gambling consumes the addict, and becomes their whole life.

People who speed are either in a hurry, careless or doing it for cheap thrills.

[dahamsta]

To reiterate my mantra: Speed doesn't kill, bad driving kills; and if you want to "cure" bad driving, talk to the government about their woeful track record with driver education and testing; and if you're not able to handle your car at speed, perhaps you should buy a bicycle or simply stay on the footpath and out of everyone else's way.

adam

[GavinZac]

To reiterate my mantra: Speed doesn't kill, bad driving kills; and if you want to "cure" bad driving, talk to the government about their woeful track record with driver education and testing; and if you're not able to handle your car at speed, perhaps you should buy a bicycle or simply stay on the footpath and out of everyone else's way.

adam

I think the 'speed kills' thing isn't meant to mean you're more likely to wrap you and your car around a pole on the dual carriageway (these days, anyway); any time i've seen on posters and such it its usually in conjunction with some figures explaining that if, in a populated area you hit a child at 40km/h they're almost certain to die while at 30km/h there's a very good chance they'll live. One of those strange natural boundaries in our human tolerances.

[Macy]

No, that's what they should concentrate on - indeed in the UK they have one on that very topic which is very good - here it's just about speed. There's one of the ads is a fella overtaking on a bend, coming up to a crossroads and the focus is on the speed irrc.

[GavinZac]

No, that's what they should concentrate on - indeed in the UK they have one on that very topic which is very good - here it's just about speed. There's one of the ads is a fella overtaking on a bend, coming up to a crossroads and the focus is on the speed irrc.

I'm going on posters, rather than TV (don't watch TV really apart from the odd MNS), spent a fair whack of time around Gardai earlier this year and saw plenty of such posters. If the TV ads are differently, forgive me, but I do agree that certainly it at least should be (one of) the main concern.