So i was reading this article about football players and their cars. I must begin this blog with ” I am not the jealous type”.
You can pretty much do what you want to me and I OK with it nothing much bothers me. Well thats true in most respects, but all my credence goes out the window when it comes to cars. Yes I am jealous when I see a nice BMW M3 or a new Audi TT and don’t even mention a Porsche Cayenne Turbo or 911 or a Ferrari. Why cant I have one I ask myself? Oh wait I dont have the cash and it would take me years to save up for one of these beauties
Interesting to read the Falcon turns 50 years old. Actually its pretty boring, I dont know how it survived 50 years. Is it me or are its ugly as. Give me the Mini Cooper or Volkswagen Golf anytime, but hey thats just my opinion. I suppose if you have a ‘large’ family then its better having a big fuel guzzler than a Toyota Prius.
Alternatively people should have less kids so no need for big cars. What do you think?
Seat Belts are the best protection in a car accident.
Failure to wear a seat belt contributes to more fatalities than any other single traffic safety-related behavior. 63% of people killed in accidents are not wearing seat belts. Wearing a seat belt use is still the single most effective thing we can do to save lives and reduce injuries on Australia’s roadways.
Data suggests that education alone is not doing the job with young people, especially males ages 16 to 25 the age group least likely to buckle up. They simply do not believe they will be injured or killed. Yet they are the nation’s highest-risk drivers, with more drunk driving, more speeding, and more crashes. Neither education nor fear of injury or death is strong enough to motivate this tough-to-reach group.
Rather, it takes stronger seat belt laws and high visibility enforcement campaigns to get them to buckle up.
Seat belts are the most effective safety devices in vehicles today, estimated to save hundreds of lives each year. Yet only 68 percent of the motor vehicle occupants are buckled.
How good is watching the world cup I guess the only thing better would be to be there cheering on the Aussies.I think there should be a World Cup for safe driving. In Australia’s case this means we’d be losing our drivers license for parking in a bus zone. ( I am trying hard here for parallels people!!). All the countries would need to compete in a city and drive around in normal conditions. You know screaming babies in the back seat, driving with a dodgy mirror or that pesky tire that just wont inflate to the correct tire pressure.
Each country would get assignments like drop the kids of at school, pick up the dry-cleaning, pick up the grandparents and so on and on.
I would like to see who the winners would be. The judges would be smash repair shops, the country with the least dings and scratches would be crowned Winner.
As if you need any more reasons to wear a seatblet. This award-winning ad has won the prestigious Cannes award. Its a reminder that wearing a seat-belt saves lives.
SO,we have all been in this position stuck in traffic or just driving around doing mundane tasks; whilst secretly wishing we could be on our favourite Freeway or driving on a deserted road ( of course obeying the speed limits). I always imagine myself somewhere in Northern Territory. Its quiet and there isn’t much traffic around.
My question is where is your most favourite destination to drive to? I love driving around in Kakadu its one of the most beautiful places in the world. You can really get lost there so make sure you take plenty of water with you and tell everyone where you going. Other than that I guess a drive up the east coast all the way to Cairns and Cape Tribulation is also in my top 5 places to drive to.
In Victoria the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne to Adelaide is very nice and scenic. I love the little towns and of course seeing Bells beach in Tourqay. I guess we are pretty lucky in Australia we can just keep on driving around and around.
With around 7.6Million squared kilometers at our disposal we are lucky indeed.
Today we had a nice drive to NOWRA to have a look at In Skilled or be Killed Program. It was extremely interesting and all the presenters were top notch.
I highly recommend all schools to set up a similar program in their schools. We gave away driving school gift-cards to lucky winners and met all the Year 10 students.
It makes you realise that as one of the presenters pointed out in todays lecture about driver attitude and behavior ” Driving is a Privilege not a Right”.
Yet a lot of us abuse this privilege and the results often ends in tragedies.
Boy its been raining, it seems like the rain wont stop. Its kinda like a scene from ‘Misery’ with Kathy Bates but anyway I wont go on, you all get the point.
I had to drive today in the wet,wow people drive really fast. You must know your car really well to drive in the wet. Its best to make sure your tyres and brake system are 100%. A good principle is to reduce your speed by 10km/hr in the wet. There is no need to drive to the recommended speed limit. That limit refers to ideal traffic conditions, which I can assure you did not exist today. So Please people reduce your speed in the wet. Having an accident is no fun. Just ask my friend Lucy she was waiting for the light to change at the intersection when a car behind her, with sqreetching brakes rammed into her. That will spoil your day and in her case she didn’t have a car for a week!!!!
I have been waiting forever it seems for my Ipad, I lined up at 6am, it was freezing today but I am proud to report I am writing this on my brand new sparking Ipzd I mean Ipad ,typing is a bit trickier than I thought. Although the keyboard is Huge I am so impressed with it, its like a massive Iphone. I got a 3G card its pretty fast getting on the web is so easy. The apps wow………. so many apps of course.
Anyway I thought about it today, what can I think about Ipad and drivingschool pages. I guess the colours are real nice and its really fast to load up. The ibooks app is great I love the Winnie the pooh app so cute. You could download all sort of driving games and simulators as well Real racing is my favourite http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id363998989?mt=8
I guess its a Friday post, you know it looks like i have done work on it, but really I have been playing on my new toy the whole day. I cant wait to watch movies tonight on my Ipad. My message for the weekend: Enjoy yourselves, but be careful on the roads. That means obey all the laws and if you go out and drink with friends make sure you catch a cab or public transport on the way home.
See you guys bright and early on Monday. Uhmmm How does 10am sound?……………………………
You saved up by working at Coles,K-Mart…… perhaps your folks helped out. So I hear you say Which car should I buy anonymous blog dude?
Well you can have a look at this great website, it ranks all cars according to crash-test http://www.howsafeisyourcar.com.au/
You can also check out http://www.crashtestdummies.com.au/events.php If I was them I would want all cars to be 5/5. Oh wait I am them . Infact all of us are crash test dummies, since in an accident our bodies behave exactly like them.
I think the car to choose is one (drumroll….) , Well you knew I was going to say the safest even before I wrote it. At the expense of looking boring,it is funny logic where you see old people driving sports cars and young people driving big old cars. The common denominator here is money. Yes we all want more of it, but when choosing cars and being young, we should be looking at safety. The statistics which we all know speak for themselves ,drivers under the age of 20 are way over-represented in crash statistics. Therefore it pays to spend a little more to get things like air-bags, side-airbags and more importantly Electronic Stability Control. You can see a video which shows the difference between ESC an no ESC. http://www.howsafeisyourcar.com.au/electronic_stability_control.php
So whatever your budget is make sure you choose air-bags over engine size, because you only have one head and I am pretty sure you want to protect it. As you get older you will get the opportunity to choose a car which has all the features you want, however by making a poor choice now you may never get that chance.
