Posts by andrew llewellyn
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Buses however however are brighly coloured
And to be fair, I'd prefer more buses & less cars of any kind.
But how many people are killed by brightly coloured, professionally driven buses each year in NZ?
Exactly what freedom of choice does someone hit by one of those things have?
I don't follow this - they have the same freedom of choice as anyone else don't they? Choice of what?
Freedom of choice is not a euphemism for chances of survival & those chances depend on a lot of factors.
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Dude, we've been over this.
Yeah we have - although I haven't heard an argument that persuades me - it's still nasty old SUVs. Buses & trucks? we need them! It's not their fault!
And I'm prepared to be disproven, but I dispute that there are more SUVs than buses & trucks, I dispute that there are more SUVs causing accidents than buses & trucks even.
Busybodies, is the word that comes to mind.
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I propose we hold it in Andrew's Touareg.
Ha! You forget the next bit:
I want he and Grant to have a cage match where they cast blanket aspersions on all people they deem morally inferior,
No doubt they'll start with the selfish SUV owner.
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Why don't you feel the same way about buses, trucks, & vans?
They are also a danger to you.
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Thhhhbbbtttt!!!
You call me a "fucking idiot" - allow me the luxury of telling you where to go with that.
It likely gets a couple of its stars for having enough airbags to be hired out to children's parties as a bouncy castle
Undoubtedly true. It also (untested by me), detects objects about to impact at high speed & sends an SOS to emergency services. Apparently. I've always suspected that in the event of that happening, someone in munich will get an SOS from Paekakariki.
That's also physics
Yes it is - and buses & trucks have that advantage over an SUV, as does a Fiat 500 over a cyclist, and a cyclist over a pedestrian.
What do you propose, everyone has to drive vehicles that are exactly the same size or spec?
Or does freedom of choice still exist on Planet Krack?
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also runs a Range Rover Sport, a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a work-related Humvee... although not all at once.
There are limits IMO. :)
I'd cheerfully support a car free wellington, how do we arrange it?
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From the perspective of a cyclist I'm less than happy to be surrounded by vehicles that seem expressly designed to kill people like me in the event of an accident,
Check the front page of the paper... ban trucks.
Also, on a less irritated note - check this out
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Safety wise - it compares to the Vw Passat, which has been named the safest car on the road. According to this site anyway
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they must feel it does it quite well, or you'd probably assume that they would own something else.
It does what I want very well, it's drawback is the cost of fuelling it, but it actually does better in that regard than minivans & stationwagons belonging to tradespeople I am related to.
And I don't trust a minivan nor stationwagon not to get stuck in a paddock.
I can't be bothered arguing that I'm not the stereotypical SUV owner in your perception, but I suspect I'm less atypical than you guys think.
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So why an SUV and not a station wagon?
And at last - None of YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.