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Originally Posted by flappist
Yeh because in urban QLD where the speed limit can and often does change several times in a single block of a single street it FAR more important to be concentrating on your speedo than looking out for kids playing or dogs or pushbikes or cars backing out of driveways or potholes.
e.g. Main Street Hervey Bay (just around the corner from me)
80, 60, 50, 60, 40, 60, 70, 60, 50, 40.
BUT going over the same road in the other direction
40, 50, 60 70, 60, 80.
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Spot on! A quick trip from Gympie to say Nambour now involves:
50, 70, 60, 40, 60, 80, 90 (Gympie-Cooroy, don't get me started with this one!), 80, 90, 100, 110, 100, 110, 80, 60 speed zones.
I remember when I learnt to drive. Whilst driving relatively unsafe cars (compared to today's cars) on terribly dangerous highways, we kept a bit of an eye on our speed but mainly concentrated on vision and road conditions. We still drove at speeds similar to today.
25 years later, now that "speed kills", speed zones change every 5 minutes and fines increase, the tables have turned. We now drive safer cars on better roads at the same speeds, yet watching the speedo has become time consuming and counter productive, especially for learners!