Speed Kills - (video)

My good friend, the Eishman, has written a post on his blog regarding the idiocy of some people on our South African roads who think that the road they are driving on is their own personal speedway.

On his post is this video from MyVideo of an individual driving at high speed while talking on his cellphone - unfortunately this video is indicative of a mindset that perpetuates the idea that its fashionable, cool and trendy to drive at such high speeds on public roads. BTW - why is it that BMW drivers feel they have somthing to prove?

I urge you to read the post at Eish! and to leave your comments - lets all take responsibility so that we don't end up a statistic.

A Car Named Rugby

With the 2007 edition of the Rugby World Cup having kicked off this past Friday evening, I thought it would be interesting to post something about a little-known car known as the Rugby.

This was a car first produced by Durant Motors in 1924. For a photo and other interesting information about this car from a bygone era, please go to Restored-Classics.com

Music In Your Car Can Lead To Accidents

We all know that speed kills. But did you know that the speed of the music you listen to while travelling is also a factor in road accidents?

I came across this 2002 study by an Israeli reseacher who found that drivers who listen to fast music in their cars may have more than twice as many accidents as those listening to slower tracks.

So hold back on the club music while driving and put on something a little more soothing if you really must listen to music while behind the wheel!

One has to ask whether those who promote the sale of high-end amplifiers and related sound equipment can be held liable for certain accidents. I suppose the difficult part would be proving that the driver was listening to music at a certain level and that it distracted him/her. I become annoyed when, while driving, I hear the bass beats of a car before I can see it! Surely the occupant cannot possibly have full capacity of their cognitive abality will having music playing at that volume in the vehicle!

Is there a law against this type of anti-social behaviour? If not, there should be!

The World's Most Expensive Cars And Economic Justice

It has been said that if you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it! The cars previewed in the blog "Billionaire News" are most definitely in the bracket of those I can't afford! It would be interesting to work out what percentage of the world's population could afford such luxury vehicles.

As much as I do not begrudge those who can afford these expressions of opulence, there is something obscene about spending close to $2 000 000 on a car when millions around the world still have to walk for kilometres to fetch clean water. The economic injustices of the world are brought into sharp focus when you begin to get your head around just how much money is being spent on these vehicles. Read the blog post here.

Martin Luther King Jr said,

"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.I am not naive enough to think that by not buying expensive cars we are going to alleviate poverty but I write this post in the hope that it will bring into focus the huge gap between the rich and the poor. "

The reality is that even if we own a very ordinary family car, we find ourselves in the top economic bracket of the world. I guess the question is "What am I doing to make a difference in the world? How am I going to be part of the solution?"

For more on this go to the One Campaign site here.

Drunk Driving Email Course

The largest catalyst for automotive deaths is drunk driving - read an excellent article about this here.

For those who struggle in this area of their lives there is a four-day email course to which they can subscribe which will help them face the reality of their problem. The course is anonymous and will hopefully be a wake-up call before its too late.

The course can be accessed here - Drunk Driving Email Course