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How many dozy drivers do you
How many dozy drivers do you see who clearly can’t judge speed or distance.
Had me a little Google of this location: here’s what you don’t see in the movie, if you go in close, you can see bits of trim from recent victims. Yet Mr Appliances Direct seemed to have made it ok.
my 2014 Genesis Equilibrium
my 2014 Genesis Equilibrium commuter. It was originally metallic dark grey with a green and yellow stripe – I had it resprayed by Mercian; decals by Ebay.
Bournemouth man jailed for
Bournemouth man jailed for stealing and crashing girlfriend’s car
‘A victim impact statement from the owner of the house, read by Ms Hart, said her anxiety has increased and she had to take time off work to deal with insurance.
She said: “Every time I hear pebbles or a car driving fast, I get uncomfortable and feel anxious.
“This is not something anyone should be made to feel where they should feel relaxed and safe.”’
My Spa Audax 2017 build.
My Spa Audax 2017 build. Ultegra, home-built wheels, running Gator Skins.
Sorry for the ungainly pose, but it decided to stand up by itself when I was doing a post ride rub down.
If not a driverless bus, then
If not a driverless bus, then that’s quite close to a driverless taxi you’re describing.
It’s the social and perceived safety factors as much as anything else – “my car”, my exclusive possession and space: that I won’t be sharing with strangers, thank-you very much. I don’t know whether people will be willing to let those factors go, having been sold them.
They’re pretty tenacious: a big city car owner has got one or more of this thing that they often can’t really afford to own or to run, which gives them inconsistent journey times, parking it is always a detriment to the world, many can’t safely charge it or it pollutes if it’s ICE. It represses and endangers all other forms of transport wherever it goes. All justified by the 5-yearly fridge delivery, or old war wound that plays-up whenever anyone says “active travel”.
I guess especially while
I guess especially while Covid is around, we all value our little bit of on-road exclusivity. Tell me about the driverless car system that is as fully inclusive as bikes collectively are.
Imagine the horror if your driverless car / the one you were using informed you that it had been electronically hailed by someone wanting to do part of your journey at this time, and was going to stop to pick them up!
Imagine programming it for central London at rush hour (which still be a thing) – what route choices might it make?
It has to be transport for all.
Your occasional reminder that
Your occasional reminder that the car (whatever it runs on) kills off public transport. Every time you drive you, are part of this problem; each individual driver things he’s being very clever, but – well, you know the rest. Driving is misery.
The car deprives public transport of passengers and revenue and congests the roads – less reliable, less frequent. Unpleasant, waiting for a bus, unsafe waiting for a train at some iffy, unmanned station,
To give an example: 18 buses a day in our village in the 1970s – evenings, Sunday afternoons ; now 6 and none on Sundays. In the many places where the buses have died out completely, every adult and child now needs a car / access to a car to go anywhere.
We started the solar panels
We started the solar panels install process (via Eon) in September – it’s a slow thing, no install date fixed yet. We’re having over 10 panels so the elec distributor has to approve. Our supplier did us a smart meter (which is an essential to record the nano watts we will sell back.) this week. We’re having a battery which will store about an hour’s worth of output from our west facing back roof.
I doubt it will be economic, and it also remains to be seen if any future buyer would find them a turn-on.
Ah yes, every driver is
Ah yes, every driver is rushing to hospital – funny that. So sure, there’s an override button for those times you mysteriously find yourself in a Hollywood action movie – but then you have to explain at your local police station why you used it, based on the automated report it generates.
The same device, “spy in the cab”, drivers will call it, sends a report of each time you exceed the speed limit as well. BTW, the car won’t go unless it and the driver are legit.
Why not?
This seems to be a “car hits.
This seems to be a “car hits…” sub-theme I’ve noticed lately; it’s recently happened to my sister in her little side road of 250 yards length – the driver flipped the car and didn’t get away. Speed along a titchy road in the dead of night and hit parked cars.
https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/parked-car-crashes-in-ely-and-fordham-8491740
As I view the Hunts Post page
As I view the Hunts Post page with this story, two of the four “Don’t Miss” side stories are of people dying in crashes.
The horse and rider story doesn’t quite add up – there seems to have been an impact, but the consequences are – thankfully – minor.
If a car has had an impact at above say 3 mph, why doesn’t it automatically shut itself down for 5-10 minutes? It’s very clear that drivers can’t be relied on to stop any more.
I did – but the house DID
I did – but the house DID have lights.
“Mr Baker 55 […] had been
“Mr Baker 55 […] had been taking his daughter across town for maths tuition on November 26 when [the] 3.5-mile journey took an hour and 10 minutes by car – when it should have been 10 or 15 minutes on a normal evening.”
“it’s ‘too dangerous’ for you to cycle, here I’ll drive you. “
Trying to think what has made
Trying to think what has made public transport so poor over the past 40 years.
Can other readers help?
We went for short break to
We went for short break to Shropshire the weekend it all kicked-off. London and the well-connected south east seemed to be the worst affected in terms of queues; rural Shropshire, where you actually could actually get stuck, seemed pretty chilled about it.