[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[IanMSpencer]

It’s not just judgement, it’s
It’s not just judgement, it’s how you react to other cars.

My biggest problem a few years ago was the “creeping speed” problem on motorways. You come up behind someone who is going slightly slower, and to pass them you speed up a little, but you want to leave a gap so you keep going for a bit, and you creep up behind someone going a little slower so you speed up a little to pass… etc.

I can remember journeys where I set myself a challenge of driving my regular journey down the M40 at 70, and yet by the end I was hitting 90 – back in my brand new Cavalier 2.0iL days.

The other problem is reacting to other people, so these days I am far more comfortable dropping back if someone accelerates when I overtake -typically they are not racing, they are just incompetent and I know they will slow or sit behind the next vehicle and I can ease round them while they sulk about being trapped as they didn’t read the road ahead. Both cruise control and speed limiters, depending on traffic conditions, are useful crutches to speed control.

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

I was chatting to someone
I was chatting to someone about this in the week, I recognise that when you change speeds it can be hard. I find it difficult coming off a motorway coming into a residential. But if you drive you know this, so concentrate or use a limiter (bloke I was chatting to used the limiter, I don’t)

[IanMSpencer]

Even odder that speed
Even odder that speed limiters that are easy to use have been around for 25 years or more and installed as standard on some cars, yet cruise control that allows you to easily exceed the speed limit is a more popular option to fit than the device that allows you to abide by the speed limit – without checking.

[JustTryingToGetFromAtoB]

Found on the local site this
Found on the local site this morning. What a strange concept, checking speed.

[David9694]

what is it about cars and

what is it about cars and driving that makes people like this?

A few weeks ago, a driver knocked over a traffic light on a mearby main road. This must to do with the replacement. 

[David9694]

Unbearable’ traffic chaos due

Unbearable’ traffic chaos due to roadworks on Tuckton Roundabout

“It took me 45 minutes to an hour, to get around the roundabout into Christchurch the other day and when the traffic lights were right outside the shop it was unbearable.”

A spokesperson from Health Point Pharmacy said: “It took one of our customers who lives nearby, an hour to get here.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23077552.unbearable-traffic-chaos-due-roadworks-tuckton-roundabout/

[brooksby]

Awavey wrote:

Awavey wrote:

Would a classic ever reach 69mph ?

I have once.  On a motorway.  Downhill.  With a tailwind…

[brooksby]

hirsute wrote:

Have you seen the way brooksby drives ?!

Actually, my kids always complain that I drive far too slowly, and certainly slower than my wife… 😉

[David9694]

so, drivers, the traffic

so, drivers, the traffic engineers have, at your behest, carved up the environment for about 60 years to try to facilitate your driving, to “sort the traffic”.  The result you now say is ‘confusing’?

He made reference to changes on the roads around Broad Marsh. “If you have not driven in a while you have to familiarise again with the signs,” he added. “Nottingham is very confusing sometimes. As long as it is not just a revenue-making scheme, I am fine with it.”

People of Nottingham speak out over clampdown on bad drivers at major city junctions
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/people-nottingham-speak-out-over-7715083

[David9694]

brooksby wrote:

People do seem to have this misplaced belief that the piece of road outside their house/garden somehow belongs to them…

But this story was a little different in that I see that the car was parked on her *illegal* driveway.  For fifteen minutes.  By the estate agent working for her landlord.

TIFTFY

as always when it’s cars, things escalate quickly. This looks like another lost front garden pressed into service for parking. 

[David9694]

For once, bona fide people

For once, bona fide people with disabilities, not the driver makey-uppey/ recently discovered passion for disability rights kind. 

[Secret_squirrel]

Thats a disingenous arguement

Thats a disingenous arguement.   We dont tolerate not fit for purpose cycle lane layouts and therefore its perfectly valid for drivists not to tolerate poor road layouts.

Active safety is about designing (roads etc) so that poor behaviours are minimised – especially when there’s a high likeyhood of interaction with other road users.

Saying its all the drivists fault is a copout as much as it would be convienient and tempting to do so.

 

[David9694]

The nu-beetles presumably

The nu-beetles presumably come with the matching plastic flower they seem to have inside?
The one that says I’m kind and gentle, a little bit hip, aalternative, and with-it, might wear some dungarees and maybe a headscarf” 

[Hirsute]

gofundme.com/imalawbreaker

gofundme.com/imalawbreaker/46880

 

[IanMSpencer]

The interesting part about

The interesting part about that is why 58 offences were racked up. It was stopped elsewhere for having no insurance, but implicit in that was the registration did not tie up to an address and they needed the information from another force to identify the driver. They then sent 58 notices all at once.

Clearly a deliberate attempt to drive outside the law. They must have known they were setting off speed cameras and not getting tickets so they believed their ploy was working.

I can’t see that ban being abided by given that no other aspect of vehicle law was abided by. Watch this space.

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