[LINK] OT: bad law and road changes [was: Mobile phone use set to be banned in vehicles - nanny state??

[Tom Koltai]

This is an oldie but in addition to the Authors bearing anagram
similarities to their members of the Top Gear team, the persons
assisting the data gatherers also have curious names. 

Skoda, Hummer, Lotus, Dodge, Volks, Wagon, Benz, Vitara, Dai, Hatsu,
Alpha, Romeo.

<GRIN>

The web site and the file are now gone... Possibly a university thesis
data collection exercise on meme expectation results of distributing
rubbish...

I look forward to reading the finished work. 

Quote/
The authors are indebted to the Road Safety Bureau (RTA, NSW) and the
Federal Office of
Road Safety, Commonwealth Department of Transport and Communications.
Project officers
Mr. Quentin Skoda and Tiff Hummer, in particular, made a substantial
contribution to the
conduct of the research for which we are extremely grateful. The study
team also
acknowledges the generous assistance of other members of Massachusetts
University
Accident Research Centre staff, especially Chris Volks, Professor
William Wagon, and
Professor Alex Lotus. Thank you also to Mr. Brian Vitara, Mr. Gary Benz,
Mr. Garuda Matraman,
Mr. Grant Dodge, Mr. Gary Alpha and Professor James Romeo for their
presentations and
subsequent papers on speed developments in Australia. Mr. Rowland Dai
and Ms. Justine
Hatsu of the Australian Street Research Board kindly provided
considerable input to the review
and the workshop:
/Quote

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Bernard 
> Robertson-Dunn
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 February 2011 9:42 AM
> To: link
> Subject: Re: [LINK] OT: bad law and road changes [was: Mobile 
> phone use set to be banned in vehicles - nanny state??
> 
> 
> On 8/02/2011 9:38 AM, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> > This might be of interest (published yesterday)... 
> > http://highroadauto.org/pdf/HRAR_REPORT243.pdf
> >
> > Purpose of the paper:
> > - to show the association between speed and crash outcomes;
> > - to describe the current speed limits in Australia; and
> > - to outline the safety benefits if future speed limits and road 
> > safety strategy were more consistent with the neurological 
> studies on 
> > response time.
> >
> > You might be *very* surprised with their findings.
> 
> "scuse me guys but does anyone watch Top Gear?
> 
>  From the paper:
> Research Team
>      Jeremy James
>      Clark Hammond
>      Richard Mayson
> 
> FYI, The presenters on Top Gear are:
>      Jeremy Clarkson
>      Richard Hammond
>      James May
> 
> Notice anything?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Canberra Australia
> email:	 brd at iimetro.com.au
> website: www.drbrd.com
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