Drivers and their problems

Hirsute wrote:

Article on PCPs and their dangers. I was told I was being extreme when I mentioned this before.

The financialisation of car consumption

 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2023.2254727

"Car manufacturers have promoted PCPs to solve long-running problems in their business model related to the need to maintain a certain level of ongoing new car consumption to conform with path-dependent patterns of production. In doing so, they have partly exported their own financial risk onto consumers, leveraging what is widely construed as consumers’ material dependency on their vehicles for transport to do so."

Thanks - I found the Abstract interesting and I'll have a read through it later.

David9694 wrote:

MP Johnny Mercer says 'no-one has worked harder on this than Sheryll Murray'

And if people can't afford price increases, they can use food banks. Sheryll Murray is very pleased that South East Cornwall has food banks

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/i-m-pleased-we-have-foodbanks-t...

But it's the cyclists they hate.

Did learn a new word though, agister.

I guess the four month old was brought to court for the experience seeing how they are likely to spend quite a bit of their life in and out of court if their father is the example which they follow. 

David9694 wrote:

'Openreach plonked a telegraph pole over my driveway while I was at work'

"My daughters have bigger cars and can't fit."

""I think it's going to devalue the house as well, because if I eventually sell, because I've lost my husband, it's going to put someone off...no real notice before the new pole was put up"

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/new-telegraph-pole-...

On the plus side, gigabit broadband availability at the premises may offset any imagined loss of value. 

One for wtjs (admittedly not in Lancashire, though):

Thanks for the thought, but it's rather like administering a hologram of a glass of water to a man dying of thirst in the desert. No prosecution for such an offence, or almost any other road traffic offence is possible in Lancashire under the present hopelessly ineffectual and/or bent regime with its proud boast: we never do anything about anything

https://upride.cc/incident/ye10aju_mini_redlightcross/

https://upride.cc/incident/ds6972_porsche_redlightpass/

https://upride.cc/incident/fd67nej_bmw420_redlightcross/

Almost all road traffic offences have been abolished here, so that absent MOT, insurance and VED is rampant- every day there are a few new offenders demonstrated during a couple of trips along the same 2 miles of road- as well as all the old offenders the police refuse to do anything about

Can we have a whip round to get them to do this off motorways as well?  Every day?

Here in France the farmers used to do a similar type of demonstration blocking motorways while driving their tractors to Paris. Several people where killed by running into the back of the tractors. The people organising these demonstrations think they are being clever but they have no idea of the risk of having innocent people's blood on their hands.

Here in France the farmers used to do a similar type of demonstration blocking motorways while driving their tractors to Paris. Several people where killed by running into the back of the tractors. The people organising these demonstrations think they are being clever but they have no idea of the risk of having innocent people's blood on their hands.

Once you've had your hooky steak you're going to want to remove all traces of evidence, clearly.

If I recall, being in prison in the UK is a fair barrier to you procreating also. Or do we have conjugal visits like the US?

Although as we should always remember (if we're in "improve the world" mode) not to having sex, willing or no.

Just saw that - was still dithering over whether it should be "trapped in our houses" or "cars in houses" or here...

I liked:

Quote:

Mr Morrison has mobility issues, so he was unable to escape the car travelling at 30mph by jumping out.

He added: "It might not sound like it is very fast, but when you have no control over the speed and you're completely stuck inside, it's terrifying."

I've got a vision of a Speed remake, a la Father Ted...

'New Forest drivers have been given a stark reminder of what to do if they hit an animal...'

Perhaps a gentle reminder of what to do BEFORE they hit an animal would be a better idea? 

Beta testing Level 5?

David9694 wrote:

Family of teen killed by driver 'speeding and clowning around' devastated at sentence

Less the sentence (suspended), more the "passed 33 days ago, now screwing around in a car". And no mention of "banned from driving for at least a decade" either. Just another tragic accident...

pockstone wrote:

'New Forest drivers have been given a stark reminder of what to do if they hit an animal...'

Perhaps a gentle reminder of what to do BEFORE they hit an animal would be a better idea? 

Preferably before NOT hitting an animal.

Actually I think this may be the first news of an under-reported epidemic:

BBC wrote:

A driver has told how he was "kidnapped" by his runaway electric car and forced to dodge red lights and roundabouts.

Also, another reason why 20mph limits are completely barking.  Imagine the unfair penalty points accrued (and other cars and cyclists he'd have mown down) if the default was 20mph.

BBC wrote:

Brian Morrison, 53, from Glasgow said he was heading home from work on Sunday night when he said his brand new MG ZS EV became stuck at 30mph.

Hirsute wrote:

'I was kidnapped by my runaway electric car'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67005620

 

I've said this before somewhere, but like on any of the heavy, dangerous machines I am around at my work, and like many race cars, there should be a large E-Stop button on the dash which physically cuts all power to the drivetrain with the minimum complexity possible. Not a signal on a 5 V line to a CPU somewhere politely requesting a shutdown. On a combustion powered car, it should shut off power to the solenoid controlling a normally closed valve on the fuel near the injector rail. On an electric car, shut off power to normally open solenoids on all poles of power to the motors or controller.

In the UK, its functionality should be tested as part of the MOT.

Rally cars have them, a first aid film once told me, and buses.