The RoSPA Deception: The RoSPA Pedestrian Injury Simulator: misleading the public as to the their risk in road safety (Live within reason: Spotlight Book 10)

Being well-meaning and well-intentioned are not legitimate reasons to put lives at risk. Misrepresenting reality, reversing the risk almost entirely, gives drivers and pedestrians a false impression as to their own safety, as to the risk they face on the roads. RoSPA is not alone in doing so, but they provide one of the clearest examples of such in their pedestrian simulator, www.stoppingdistances.org.uk. We show how the simulator is misleading, has been deliberately designed to be so, and how it is putting lives at risk by reducing awareness of risk by ordinary drivers and pedestrians, precisely those involved in 98.4% of pedestrian injury.