TFL road safety campaign

wearing hi viz isn't illegal, using a phone whilst driving is. you can clearly see the dash arch in the pic - it's the fucking driver, disingenuous to suggest otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ppR5_jJLGs&feature=youtu.be

(Shown during Coronation Street tonight)
Did you see it?
What do you think?

I was literally just watching that on youtube.

Is "HTFU" really the best message to be sending to vulnerable road users?

whats coronation street?

Dunno
just passing on the the word

Share the space with the person who is stealing your safety?

clip is alright like,
point made,
wont dont no harm,
but wont change anything either,
keeps some folks in work in the media world lahk

So if a cyclist gets cut up by a car or motorbike driver they should just let it go, and if a ped is narrowly missed by someone cycling like a dick they should just let it go?

Or how about a campaign to tell the relevant people to not behave like selfish idiots?

nah, wouldnt work, ray guns, lazers, evaporation nukes, teleportation buttons, that sort of thing be better

I don't like this, as the message is really confused. So we should 'share the road', a message that has gone AWOL from its originally intended meaning for years, and that then takes the shape of not flying into some kind of 'road rage' after a problematic incident happens rather than aiming to prevent it/them (both incident and road rage). Perhaps they have other spots about prevention, but then there should at least be some allusion to it. And I can't stand the obligatory plinky-plonk non-'music' on stuff like this. Why can't they just leave it off or use proper music? Millions of videos are exactly the same.

So if a cyclist gets cut up by a car or motorbike driver they should just let it go, and if a ped is narrowly missed by someone cycling like a dick they should just let it go?

I think it's safe to say that you're probably not in the target audience. :)

I'm not sure who the target audience is, tbh.

Is it the cab driver who nearly runs over the schoolkids, or is it the schoolkids who throw chips on his windscreen?

Is it the woman in the convertible who's just tried to drive into the woman on the bicycle, or is it the woman on the bicycle who's managed to stop in time?

I assume from the cyclist vs ped segment that the target there is the pedestrian who almost got turned into paste by the oblivious chap on the bike.

Doesn't this basically just say "somebody has endangered your life, but it's terribly important not to react to it in any way because other people shouldn't ever be requested to examine their own behaviour"? And we should all just accept terrible, terrible driving, because... well... why? That's the bit I don't really get. Because it'll make us feel better? "Oh, some cunt in a taxi almost wiped me out, well, no point in being upset about it, taxis will be taxis, lol!"

What?

This is TfL saying, "Allow it fam".

People who watch this advert are going to be like "yeah! everyone else needs to just chill the fuck out over my shitty behaviour!", so it'll have that effect, I guess.

^This, cunts will still be cunts and those that are affected just need to chill.

Patronising bullshit.

Surely more traffic police is necessary? It made it sound like near fatal collision are something you should brushed off and forget about instead of reporting it to the police/company

Imagine if this was an ad to (to borrow Dammit's analogy from a few days ago) raise awareness of domestic violence.

You'd have men who beat their wives being told "you know, sometimes she burns the dinner and it's really annoying. Instead of beating her up you could try some breathing exercises", and women who've been beaten by their husbands being told "so you've just been beaten up. Instead of crying and feeling all upset about it, how about you just accept it and move on?"

It doesn't really work, does it?

^Great analogy....
Tbh initially I liked the video and the chill out message. I was wrong

People attitude to cycling is worryingly similar to their attitude to rape.

Oh ed...

^Great analogy....
Tbh initially I liked the video and the chill out message. I was wrong

I agree with you.

I was literally just watching that on youtube.

Is "HTFU" really the best message to be sending to vulnerable road users?

No, clearly not. The film showed people getting pointlessly angry, the aim is for others to see themselves in these people and try not to get so worked up. I often get pointlessly angry because I feel vulnerable, and overreact. Good idea, well made film.

People attitude to cycling is worryingly similar to their attitude to rape.

Still trying to figure this out. Do you mean that people think cycling is violent and morally repugnant?

Still trying to figure this out. Do you mean that people think cycling is violent and morally repugnant?

He means that being injured while cycling and being raped are both subject to same vein of (no-doubt well-meaning) victim-blaming bullshit that's on display in the TFL ad.

I don't see that in the ad.

Yes, you've said.

Once again Boffy strike it.

I often get pointlessly angry because I feel vulnerable, and overreact.

This is perfectly normal when someone almost killed you for no reason, even though the Highway Code stated it's best to pull over and take a breather;

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not allow yourself to become agitated or involved if someone is behaving badly on the road. This will only make the situation worse. Pull over, calm down and, when you feel relaxed, continue your journey.