Copyright 2007 iBelieve.be Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:01 +0100 http://www.ibelieve.be/ http://www.ibelieve.be http://www.ibelieve.be/logo.gif 67 160 info@ibelieve.be info@ibelieve.be en-us http://www.ibelieve.be/viewvote.php?pid=14 Here I am again, after trying to convince you that speed limits would greatly reduce traffic I have another reason for asking more liberalisation.

Like every year I went to the Alps which is a 1.000 km drive. 
Changing speeds from 120 to 160 and back depending on the road conditions kept me awake because it made the drive engaging.  
Obliging me to stick to 120 with the speed control would have put me asleep in less than 2 hours and probably killed me.

Are govenments measuring this cause of accidents????
Of course not, it is easier to just put everything on speeding and treat their defenceless population as criminals. 

P.S. I'm only suggesting this for highways, in villages the ride is entertaining enough at 50, all fine there!

]]> Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:57:30 +0200 http://www.ibelieve.be/viewvote.php?pid=13 After the oil crisis ended governments did no longer want to loose their interesting revenues on speeding tickets and just maintained it with new excuses like safety… 
While it is widely recognized that Germany has the worst highways, certainly since they had to shift their budgets to upgrade East-Germany, but still manage to have better safety track records than its neighbors?! 

Cars have more airbags than supermarkets have plastic bags at their cashiers nowadays (which is a great thing for environment) and the cheapest cars are tested on race tracks to drive safely at 200 kmph. 
Needless also to say what kind of improvements have been made on our tires and so on…

Now in the early morning you leave for work and are among few on the highway all driving at 120 kmph. 
Driving from Antwerp to Brussels is a 40 km drive taking you 20 minutes at this speed. 
If we were allowed to drive at 160 kmph this trip would only take you 14 minutes! 
On a 40 km drive this bunch of cars would have left the highway 6 minutes faster making room for the next and so on.
 
Of course this would imply:
1. cleaner cars with lower emissions but we are anyway heading that way.
2. that 95 year olds still driving their car should be checked for capabilities (today they are a real danger and nothing seems to stop them except for their family or their insurance policy)
3. that driving exams include some ability testing on skid pads rather than only driving around cones on ridiculous parking lots.
]]> Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:47:57 +0200 http://www.ibelieve.be/viewpost.php?pid=13
take 5 minutes and check this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q



Just take the time and thinkabout all these facts...

does shift happens? ]]> Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:18:45 +0100 http://www.ibelieve.be/viewpost.php?pid=2 Chaque enfant est riche d'un formidable potentiel, encore faut-il le faire éclore. Voilà le grand défit du corps professoral.]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:39:22 +0100