Tom Stoppard Quotes

We lose 30,000 lives on our highways every year. We can certainly do better.

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you - let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don't force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you're correct.

No, no I don't speed or anything. I drive a VW Touareg so.

There is so much we can do to save lives on our roads.

A lot of people has lost their lives due to indiscipline on the roads.

You pretty much know as a driver what too fast is.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.

Chennai is a beautiful city; I love the roads here and also know the routes. But one tip for car/bike enthusiasts - your life is most important; so, drive safe!

The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

I never exceed the posted speed limit.

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.

Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.

We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

There is a constitutional right to travel. But when we pass speed limits and seat belt safety requirements … no one accuses us of “travel control.” Ignore the labels; the facts are your friends.

Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?