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Mungecrundle wrote:
The skills required include; observation, anticipation, forward planning, self control and vehicle handling (braking, accelerating, steering, changing gear).
Humans have a tendancy to over estimate our own abilities…when a driver finds themselves in a situation that they have failed to deal with properly it has to be the other party at fault. Some of us learn from those experiences and statistically become safer drivers. Some of us are unable to learn…
1. AKA driving, like your instructor taught you all those years ago.
2. So true.
I think part of this is driven by people whose lives are just one continuing round of “now what?” chaos, as they they lurch from one crisis to the next with no scope to reflect, learn, work out a different strategy.
people have referred to a modern car being less “engaging” to drive. I wonder if the some of the missing engagement is between driver and the cost of the vehicle and its upkeep. I would have also said fuel, but as the UK is like the most expensive place in the solar system to drive, I assume drivers drive with economy in mind.
my car is an automatic, with a simple cruise control – on a motorway, all I have to do in theory is steer. Am I more safe (e.g. less fatigued) or less, because I’m more likely to doze off?
Enjoy?
Enjoy?
very little car use so far this year, and curtailed last year. Can’t say I enjoy driving for its own sake or ever have.
You are being super-polite
You are being super-polite and deferential to people who don’t give a damn about you and who will give nothing back.
I’ll let you know how things
I’ll let you know how things go…
Bullying, AKA “because I can”
Bullying, AKA “because I can” is the no 1 reason why it manefests itself. It comes down to who will win a fisticuffs, which is why being in a peloton of 6 or so riders is a good idea.
The “road tax” argument and anything else like it is straight out of the animal kingdom, like a cat arching its back at a dog and hissing, make yourself seem bigger than your foe.
The comments Cycling Mikey gets often point it all up – a combination of my school playground and an old episode of The Sweeney (roughly the same sort of era), with their grasses and snitches.
This is the same argument as
This is the same argument as retired people shopping in the lunch hour on weekdays, or disabled people holding things up on public transport – begone, weaklings!!
probably best not to get your care out either, lest you hold someone up at the traffic lights.# irony
Lottery winner Matthew Topham
Lottery winner Matthew Topham spared jail after killing pensioner in car crash
http://news.sky.com/story/lottery-winner-spared-jail-after-killing-pensioner-in-car-crash-12243027
Oh, come on, he only winged
Oh, come on, he only winged it
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/19138631.roof-damaged-lorry-crashes-fordingbridge-pub/
Simple courtesy shouldn’t be thought of as a problem.You mean like not using your half tonne car to threaten people? Yes, that simple courtesy would indeed be nice, and shouldn’t be thought of as a problem.
Not sure I understand the
Not sure I understand the specific plumber / electrician /van reference. If any driver is starting to over boil after 20s of alleged “delay”, then there’s something wrong, isn’t there?
Remember too that in many situations, including this one, the car/van is an illusion of speed e.g. in a typical Jeremy Vine London video, he typically catches-up a driver at junctions 3-4 times over in clear conditions.
About as likely to be in a
About as likely to be in a genuine hurry as I was on a Sunday afternoon on a narrow country road. Why does the driver’s poor planning/time management have to be my problem?
I agree about mutual respect, avoiding making a cyclist hater where there wasn’t one before, or even deepening an already ingrained prejudice (“that’s the second time this year – this always happens”) – but you seem to have a different interpretation of mutual respect.
yes – on my iPad – seems to
yes – on my iPad – seems to be very slow some times
The bridge doesn’t pay road
The bridge doesn’t pay road tax, nor does the wall – that’s all you need to know.
But in the case of the wall, the fact that cars are registered, drivers licensed and as you say insured, I’m sure matters will be swiftly resolved. I mean it’s not as though you’d do something like that and then drive off, is it?
Clearly taking up the whole
Clearly taking up the whole of the lane – asking for it really.
I sometimes wonder what
I sometimes wonder what percentage of the emergency services’ time is taken up with nonsense like this.
“Police are looking for the driver of a white car who has since fled the scene”