For another chapter from our book of what's possible if you follow everything literally versus what we should be doing in the real world, may I present to you the thinking of the International Transport Forum.

They have concluded that we need to lower the open road speed limit to 70 km/h and urban roads to 30km/h.

I, by the way, on a flat road with possibly a tailwind at my back, can cycle that fast so basically, they want us driving at the speed of a bike.

Anyway, they cite several countries that have done a number of interesting things. Sweden, 90 to 80km/h. New South Wales 60km/h to 50km/h. Italy has heaps of cameras and so it goes.

Their broad argument is actually not a bad one but they tend to argue around the quality of the road and I think most of us would agree, our roads aren't flash - they're not wide, they're not new, they're not conducive to cornering at 110km/h. Some are, most aren't.

You could also argue if you're up in arms at the prospect of 70km/h on an open road, that in major cities with congestion even though the number is 100km/h, you're going nowhere near that anyway.

But, and this is where a touch of reality comes into it, Superintendent Steve Greally of the Police put his finger on it over the weekend, "let's worry about the idiots, they're the problem," he said. "Forget the tourists" that rich source of whinging and moaning we have dipped into over the years, looking for a simply solution to a complex problem.

"Forget them," he says, "let's look at us and our appalling habits" and you know what? He is right.

Most of the accidents and the issues we face are not speed related or tourist related - they're idiot related. Yes, they may involve speed but it's idiots and speed, that's the combination not the speed itself.

Any experienced, professional operator behind the wheel will tell you speed in isolation is not an issue.

Since joining, for example, Hampton Downs as I have, taking my car around a race track at 220km/h, I have not crashed, I will not crash and I have concluded I am vastly less likely to be in trouble on a track, than I am on a road.

Why? Because there are no idiots, there is respect and concentration and rules are adhered to.

Oh, the irony of having safer cars these days and yet they have failed to find the answer to the moron in the driver's seat.

But I can tell you, having us go 70km/h or 30 km/h is a sticking plaster, clickbait, attention-seeking, one-liner to a much more complex issue.

If you follow its logic, if we all did, I don't know, 10km/h no one would die and we may as well have a horse and chart. It's not real and probably, more importantly, it's not helpful.

Build better roads, test people to drive more than once in their lifetime, ensure the law is adhered to, take drink driving and drug driving seriously, crush cars, stick repeat offenders in jail, target the issues.

Me doing 100 am not the issue. Target the issue don't punish the vast majority of us who aren't actually the issue.