The downward trend in road toll fatalities is due more to car manufacturers producing safer, sophisticated vehicles than the outdated '60s approach the RTA and police take. Robert Mort, NSW Liaison Officer, National Motorists Association of Australia, Whale Beach. Congratulations to the RTA on yet another successful Easter period. Revenue must be increasing as rapidly as the road toll every year. I was one of the 23,000 or so booked for speeding over the double points period for doing what I do every day on the F3 - driving quickly but safely, in a car designed to travel a lot faster than 110 kilometres an hour.
Speed only becomes a danger when combined with incompetence, or carelessness - or both.
Someone in Macquarie Street must be convinced that there are more votes in speed campaigns than in competency-based testing, and building decent roads. No, not a chance. I'll cop it sweet and pay the fine, knowing full well that the money is well worth the time I've saved by speeding. I clock up 60,000 kilometres a year, mostly above the speed limit, and have never been in an accident - but I've sped past many slower, less capable drivers who have met their end on the road. So much for speed being the root of all motoring evil.