DANGEROUS DRIVING CRISIS: GCM Exposes the Terrifying Cost of YOUR Driving Habits!
2024 ж. 24 Мам.
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Join us on this eye-opening episode of the podcast and we're joined by George's Car Media (GCM). We dive deep into the UK's dangerous driving crisis. In this episode, George reveals data that uncovers the real cost of speeding on UK roads.
This podcast episode is not just about the legal ramifications and police involvement; it's a comprehensive look into how speeding affects all aspects of the community. From the increase in insurance premiums to the emotional and economic toll on families, George's Car Media exposes the far-reaching effects that a single speeding incident can have.
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Wow! George is so, so right. Now as a 54 year old man I sit and think back to my early 20's to 25's where I had a 1978 Opel Kadett C (the Europeans know what kind of car this is) a 780kg car with a tuned 2.2 liter engine. In those days it was a fast car, and I drove it as I had stolen both car and petrol. The police used my pearl purple painted car as a reference to whether the young people knew they had a traffic control. My point is that after a policeman started talking to me with respect and as a human being I gained respect for him and started to soften and thought that maybe he has a point in what he says and we developed a kind of friendship that made me gradually drive slower and more responsibly, I say this because I recognize what George is talking about. Even to this day when I talk to young people about driving I say that I don't say this to be cool or anything like that, but because of all the experiences I had with both accidents loosing friends, and near misses where we could get out of the car uninjured afterwards, is only due to luck and not the knowledge I thought I had when I drove like that. So then my question to young people I talk to is... If they dare to bet their life on luck, or if they rather drive safely and have a greater chance of arrival at the destination alive... By the way thanks for this one...
100% behind the idea of taking it off the road, but it needs to be accessible, it needs to be affordable, it needs the support of the police AND local councils! Too many coppers, councillors and nimbies just want all performance and modified cars off the road completely, and even off road use banned. It's unrealistic and unreasonable.
A close friend of mine has Lyme disease. It’s debilitating. He’s fortunate enough that they found it early on so it hadn’t spread very far but even for him who has “mild symptoms” he can be laid up for days at a time with no energy and in constant pain. Pain killers don’t touch it. Or at least non prescribed ones don’t but the NHS wouldn’t diagnose him with anything so he can’t get pain killers over the counter that are strong enough to reduce the pain much. He’s found that taking vitamin d and b2 supplements has helped to stretch out the time between bad spells and the bad spells aren’t as bad as they were prior to taking supplements. It’s a really tough condition to live with. I wish George’s brother and family all the best!
I got stopped by Owen, car was a shed but on the right side of legality, he was a legend, down to earth and had a good old chat about the Bristol car scene
As a retired mechanic specializing in Brakes which along with Tires are the most overlooked yet extremely essential Safety items ignored and/or overlooked and determine total safety.. if you can't stop and your tires don't have grip you have little to no control.. if either is bad safety is severely compromised...I learned to drive in winter snow and ice and on everchanging road conditions in a 62 Corvette.. with 350+HP with little to no real traction available from the road road crown .disrepair and trash on the road and a lot of power in a light car. with normal street tires.. I really learned how to control it totally..at only 15 yrs old in Ohio.. learning in these conditions makes you pay attention and control the car better than normal driver training..I had helped in the building of the car and knew it's capbilities and the way it might drive.. but the experience was lacking until I got to actually drive it. my predictions of it's performance and handling were accurate but actually feeling whatit could do and how it felt was more educational that driving a normal econobox used in regular driver training... and the use of auto trans cars for driver training instead of a manual trans car to teach total car control and closer attention to what you must do behind the wheel is a farce in my opinion...driver awareness car control is the most essential part of driving..
What a very inspirational video. George is a huge key to the change of car safety, thanks for another amazing podcast
We agree!
Definitely changed my opinion of your police videos. My opinion of the police….maybe not so much 😂
Feels like I would trust a UK or EU cop possibly, but absolutely never a US cop.
@@christopherallen355depends massively on the country, officers in Switzerland and France do not fuck about
What a very inspirational guy and a legend I wish you the very best for all future endeavours
Great podcast. Watched it start to end like always 👍 Not as a criticism but I would love to visually sometimes see what get's talked about. For example police Lotus, this guy's Mustang, your GTR...even if for a second or two an image would make the story so much better I think. A photo is worth 1000's of words...was the saying.
Speed itself isn't dangerous, but rather the improper use of speed. Guys like this never accept that fact and just try to push the oversimplified message of speed=dangerous, which just isn't true. Why don't you interview a real driving expert such as Reg Local, who is a former police officer and now an advanced driving instructor.
Consider the audience to who that message goes out to. Its not to older drivers who have experience but to young, over-confident and underqualified drivers. If they understood nuance, the dream car for a 17 year old would be a Toyota Yaris.
Such a blessing to have the chance to speak on your platform Ben! Thank you!
Thanks so much for coming on and speaking so openly! 🙌
Your cars wank
It's such a pleasure to have a great friend called George he's opened up a better world for the road safety community iv learnt alot from him
Mate, he called your lake a pond!! surprised you didn't throw him out the back of the van 🤣🤣
Ben's lake is in fact a pond. From Producer Sian
Let's reframe this situation on a global scale shall we. A total of 1766 people died (2022), this puts the UK 11th in the world for least road death rates. The other countries that have better rates are: Sweden, Japan, Kiribati, Maldives, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore, Microneisa and Antigua. Everywhere else is more dangerous than the UK for driving. With 185 other countries (out of 196) in a much worse state than the UK with road death rates. We are one (and have been for many decades) of the safest road networks in the world, yet the fearmongering always focuses on 'the number' to make it sound like a lot. I am by no means saying the drifing on the streets or speeding in 30 zones etc that surround car meets (the speeding of normal traffic is beyond a joke, ignore the meets look at the general public! 50 in a 30 is common in every 30 zone) is to be defended, clearly not. It is welcome that some officers prefer to interact in a meaningful way with motorists to warn and educate rather than just shout and hand out tickets. It's all well and good saying 'keep it on track' but tracks days get expensive. Helmets, fuel, it will kill brakes and tyres, cost of the day and travel. Most young who attend these carpark meets don't have £500 for a trackday. They would rather go with their mates a certainly their wider group doesn't have the money either, so they mostly don't go on track days. This track time isn't advertised at all, you have to go digging for it if you wish to attend. The UK as a whole has a major driving habbit problem. Just look at any multilane road and see most traffic in the outside lane, with the weight of traffic reversed to being top heavy in the overtaking lanes and least populated in the inside lanes. Tailgating, mad undertaking, agression, pulling out into a faster lane of traffic with 1 flash of the indicators into a 1 car gap that isn't really there which causes the overtaking lane to brake HARD. None of this is youth or car meets, this is the genral public of all ages and demographics. The standards have hit rock bottom. Most motorists don't seem to understand a roundabout, let alone box junctions, slipraod giveway etc.. There are no traffic police cars anymore, preferring cameras as the cheaper option - as if speeding is the only crime. In my opinion speeding in the higher speed limits isn't really an issue (50 or more) so long as the speeding driver isn't pushing other traffic or otherwise being abusive to other road users. Attended my first speed awareness course last year, it was shocking to see how wide the demographic of people was and how little most of them knew about simple road rules. I'm not saying the 1800 families a year should suffer road deaths, but when you're at the bleeding edge of driver safty on a global stage, you have to understand that we're in the deminishing returns end of the improvement scale and the police or gov' are not putting more resources into education programs or even enough effort into mixing with these car meet people to arrive at a better outcome. the police method for car meets hasn't changed in 30 years. send come coppers and fine people for little stuff like fog lights and the 1 or 2 poor driving acts they happen to spot. out of a crowd of hundreds of attendies. It's truely pointless effort and even I dare say a waste of police resources. Most of the 1800 people who died were not involved with anything to do with car meets and framing the car meet people as the only bad actors isn't a great start for getting them on side, is it? The standard of driving in the UK is terrible, the worst in Europe now by some way. 2 decades ago that wasn't the case. Taking the police off the roads in 2010 had a marked change in the driving of the public. The Gov' cut the funding and then blame the police for the worse stats. over 1% of all e-scooter crashes result in death, yet there are no new rules to help make these modern transport methods legal. leaving this area utterly unregulated for non driving licence holders. Meaning untrained people rip around our streets without fear of prosecution, without insurance or knowledge or traffic or transport laws. This has been an issue for years but there is zero action in a direction that would help public safety. A little like the highway code, which states that a vehicle takes 73m to stop from 60. if thinking time is removed (18m) then a ford fiesta 1.2 can stop in 36m, some 19m sooner than the hwc claims.. it's not the 50's anymore people when 4.5k people died on the roads with 34million less vehicles on the roads at that time.
We all have cancer, I don’t believe in your lifestyle makes a difference to whether your in a higher percentage get cancer. I no people who have lived a very very healthy lifestyle, died in the 40/50’s of cancer, i no people that have lived a life of drug abuse etc. died in 40/50’s. If I my cancer cells wake up. Then that’s my fate. I’ll except it, not try and prolong my fate. Mental health disorders also hinder my life as well as drugs and steroids. I wait to drop dead, or not wake up. Because there’s no way a human body can sustain the level of abuse I give it. But then I’m done with life. I’ve loved what I wanted to lived. Failed at getting a family and responsibilities. I care for my mum, I have nothing because I waste my money on drugs. Life’s shown me that my choices have consequences for my actions and my decisions. I still don’t learn. But I need to change my current situation to a better one and quick. Because I sense that something isn’t right.!
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When the feds infiltrate errr scene is the simulation even fun anymore?! Safety is key but this is alot.
Seems like a 🐀 to me …#sorrynotsorry
I agree with most of comenters. And i liked a a coment on @tobby1able but i think insurance companies should promote additional driving skills and put an offer taking them. And even put a standart 3level which would train you in difficult situations with Prof. Drivers and that should cost signifant money plus 2nd lelel allready training you to keep in 1st lane and minimum speed to make sure that lorrys dont overteke you. Because if you drive slower then a lorry driver you make a larger traffic on 3 lane traffic. And if all drivers would drive in 1st lane as it is designed to (many peoples think that if you do speed limit its ok to stay in 2nd or 3rd lane 😂 : that is punishable by lane hoging) we could have fast lanes doing more than 70mph
Most europe conuntrys have national speed reeching 85, 90 or unlimited Germany. Its all about gain easy acces to drive
Theres so much to add on drivers who specially accelerate on roudbauts to be able to post a shitty video of a dashcam and allmost causing an accident. While dvla is actually training you to see an accident ahead and to be considered of your actions ahead to prevent any mistakes.
I mean uk is all about easy access to drive.
Lying with conviction and a disclaimer before every assertion 🥲🤨😊🤭🤫🤗👺🤥😌🤨🤐