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stellar_muddleTorchwood is not on the same channel as Dr Who. This should be remembered when programing the video (yes, I know, how quaint...).
Sigh. Fairly certain I saw it in Au, but still...
And mentioned in the seminar today:
http://www.ecodrive.org/
Personally less interested in the CO2 emission implications as the minor side effect of reducing the road crashes... Cause people will drive more slowly in better maintained cars to reduce their carbon footprint rather than cause it is cheaper and less people might die when they crash... Silly people.
You never did get the rant that resulted from attending the road safety bit of the police research symposium last week (appart from those of you at lunch on Sat the following weekend:)).
Brief summary/random remembered bits:
Blood alcohol limit. Just don't drink then drive. Your risk of crash is quite a few times your normal risk level when not pissed, at just under the legal limit (see the pdf linked off here for details, 1st graph, front page). Even at lower levels such as Australia's 50 mg/100ml limit, you still have a much higher risk. Being at the limit doesn't really mean you are "safe" to drive, you are just somewhat less likely to kill or injure anyone. Just don't.
It might also just be a bit safer if no one under 20 years old were allowed to drive (but that may just be me examining too many age crash profiles). People are capable of stupidity at all sorts of ages though.
You only have so much attention to spread around. Use it wisely.
We shall save speed for another time.
And in case anyone is wondering, after a little over 6 months in the job, yes I am quite enjoying it, though it can occasionally get a little depressing. And it is a very good group of people to work with.
Sigh. Fairly certain I saw it in Au, but still...
And mentioned in the seminar today:
http://www.ecodrive.org/
Personally less interested in the CO2 emission implications as the minor side effect of reducing the road crashes... Cause people will drive more slowly in better maintained cars to reduce their carbon footprint rather than cause it is cheaper and less people might die when they crash... Silly people.
You never did get the rant that resulted from attending the road safety bit of the police research symposium last week (appart from those of you at lunch on Sat the following weekend:)).
Brief summary/random remembered bits:
Blood alcohol limit. Just don't drink then drive. Your risk of crash is quite a few times your normal risk level when not pissed, at just under the legal limit (see the pdf linked off here for details, 1st graph, front page). Even at lower levels such as Australia's 50 mg/100ml limit, you still have a much higher risk. Being at the limit doesn't really mean you are "safe" to drive, you are just somewhat less likely to kill or injure anyone. Just don't.
It might also just be a bit safer if no one under 20 years old were allowed to drive (but that may just be me examining too many age crash profiles). People are capable of stupidity at all sorts of ages though.
You only have so much attention to spread around. Use it wisely.
We shall save speed for another time.
And in case anyone is wondering, after a little over 6 months in the job, yes I am quite enjoying it, though it can occasionally get a little depressing. And it is a very good group of people to work with.
