[UK] Ads that lectured the young on road safety to be axed

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And here are some of these road safety public information films:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY3I6GwVkfs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfVLiOEvaCU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atDFqxHLctE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUPkirbfKSg[/youtube]
Anyone wants to see more, just let me know.

Has it occurred to you that kids don't watch television like they used to so ads have less effect than in the past? It would be more effective for the DFT to incorporate their ads in video game startups.

Lots of people still do watch television. They could be very easily integrated into children's television on satellite, for instance, for little cost.

By the way, I think it's a good thing that this paternalistic nonsense is being got rid of. It shouldn't be the business of the state to lecture people how to cross the road.



Good luck with that.

General public? No, but Children? That's the point here, it's a disguised reduction on the education budget - via the DFT - that will inevitably harm our children. It's not about the role of the state...

No. It's the job of parents, not the state. I'm sure there are lots of other ones that could be recycled and reused anyway.

Then what is the point of school if all teaching is to be done by parents?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnZ6tOVQwLk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xxXTeUCoY[/youtube]

And three more, although not directly related to children's safety:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecgBN745SYw[/youtube]

It is no wonder you Brits have traffic problems. You drive on the Wrong Side.

ruveyn

To that effect, the Dutch mock us and call us 'linksrijders'.

As someone who needs to drive around for his jobs: Nowadays its not the kids, that would need advertisement about correct behaviour in traffic. Even driving school teachers complain that its complete mad, to tell the pupils how to drive correct in traffic, while they get harassed from other drivers because of driving correct.

In driving 300.000 km no kids ever did something similar stupid as I see from grown up drivers at least 10 times a day. While the kids get trained during the year, and remembered how to behave correctly in traffic, the older ones dont get something similar.

From my point, they should start the spots again, but instead of doing commercials only for the children, they also should invent some for the grown ups too. From the reaction of some drivers, the horrifying thing it, that they dont even know, that they are driving incorrect. I mean if I am driving in slow convoy, and brake before some streettrain-rails, to wait until there is behind the streettrain-rails enough space for my car and some idiot is harassing me verbally for this, I am really done with it. In my imagination there should be a cave men: "Me Kong. This rails. Rails = Train. Car on rails when train come = sad Kong. Kong says: Never stop on rails. Wait before rails, until there is space behind rails in convoy. Only then cross rails." And you could do thousend of these with similar idiotic topics. I mean I got shouted at me one time, because of "unexpected braking". Before a stop sign.

So I know everyone is blaming the children, but because of their traffic education they are the ones, following the rules of traffic the best. Sadly they are also the weakest member of traffic, while the guys with the 1t cars are being ignored, because they are grown up anyway and know how to behave social with each other. -.-

The only way you could possibly ever teach "mature" drivers to drive according to the law is to change the lifespan of the full license over to a temporary licenses which need reapplying, testing and passing. Would also, due to the prices of both the written (£32) and practical (£64) start generating some healthy cash for the DFT which could go full circle in getting the standard of road quality upto par