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Forum: General Chat Topic: Free to drive....just not far. |
| hairyben |
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Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 21:02
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| err, what about the capacity of the National Grid?. The grid is vastly underutilised at night which is when most EVs would be require recharging. The generating companies would love to have enough night-time load to keep their big sets running at rated capacity (= maximum efficiency). Which would b... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: SNEAKY ANTI-TERROR CAMERAS USED IN WAR ON THE MOTORIST |
| hairyben |
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 18:52
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This has been going on for years, and one of the most visual fundamental arguements against all the new powers the government wish for/ rights they want to remove from us/ such as ID cards etc, so they can catch "terrorists".
-Ben, convicted parking indiscretion terrorist. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Police catch a poor driver |
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 22:08
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| IMO there are way too many of these 'self-appointed' traffic police! On a journey I do regurlarly there is a stretch of road that is NSL, however it appears that most of the boneheads around think it is a 40 limit. I have lost count of the number of times I have been blocked when attempting to over... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Elderly women drivers more dangerous than boy racers |
| hairyben |
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Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 16:30
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Replies: 12
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| I've noticed this demographic is most likely to commit to something while blissfully unaware of whats around them, eg "straightlining" a 3 lane roundabout oblivious to the conflicts of the marked 3 lanes of traffic. I dare say the old £300 paint job repair a fender bender entailed is today... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Whoopeee! Recession Over! |
| hairyben |
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 23:09
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| Hear, hear. If we were to have a nuclear holocast what use bankers, council officials and SCPs to the survivors then? They will be the only ones with they keys to the nuclear bunkers and the stockpiles of food. :o Who will be met at the door by a large army of unfriendly locals....both on the way i... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Run away cruise control |
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:02
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| The first one (which everyone has mentioned) is why the hell didn't he turn the engine off. Your explanation of panic is the only one that makes sense to me. Next, why didn't he jab the throttle? On mnay crusie-control-equipped cars, touching ANY of the pedals disengages it. He's have been jolly un... |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: A pillar blind spots again |
| hairyben |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:16
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| Stopped at a zebra crossing the other day, a two-section one with island in the middle. Out of the windscreen I'm observing the LHS of the crossing and pavement, out of the drivers window I can see the RHS of the crossing and the pavement on the other side of the road, the island is obscured by the ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Global warming cobblers? |
| hairyben |
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 13:31
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| So I don’t mind buying different light bulbs if they work as well as an incandescent one because I want light, not heat. Where do you live??? :lol: Where I live, background space heat is welcome most of the year and essential for about a quarter of it! I am perfectly happy for incandescent light fi... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Guilty of killing two who crashed into his wrecked van |
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:27
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| yes but they would only be traveling up to 20mph faster than the van. Whilst the crash would be nasty it is unlikly they would both recieve fatal injuries. Depends how quickly the van slowed. I lost drive in a hi-top iveco in the fast lane of the M5 once and the parachute effect doesn't half kill t... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: I Don't Believe It!!! |
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:08
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| Some departure ! I wonder if they have experimented with Toyota with an idea for an F1 venture in the future? Same thought crossed my mind, and many others I suspect. Toyota have a monumentally expensive and laughable unsuccessful F1 operation. The aston group of companies includes prodrive, recent... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: I Don't Believe It!!! |
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 19:35
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| You obviously didn't see the lagonda concept then! http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/First-Official-Pictures/Aston-Martin-Lagonda-Concept-unveiled-at-the-Geneva-motor-show-2009-040309/ Groan. oh dear. So whats that, merc chassis, BMW headlights, audi grill, is it just a posh golf mat... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: I Don't Believe It!!! |
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 19:51
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I thought it was pretty ridiculous...
But at least it's no cayenne. |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Damned learners! |
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Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:47
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| Read much but scanned some of this, so sorry if this has been said: I think I flashed. I definitely sounded a long horn note. To me that suggests you anticipated the event, possibly on a subliminal level, well before you were forced to react to it. Sometimes you see (but don't consciously register) ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Road deaths fall by 14% |
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 22:49
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Replies: 58
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| Perhaps the detrimental influence of speed cameras & speed policy on driving standards has reached "saturation point", and thus the historic downward trend from safer cars, better medical care etc has now surfaced/resumed. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Anti-speeding volunteer attacked" |
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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 13:50
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Steve wrote: [that's "assault"?]
My thoughts exactly. I could make a list of people who've been assaulted worse by random strangers, several hospitalised, none of whom had news inches dedicated to them, or much police interest at all.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: So .. will our man win British Grand Prix? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 19:36
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| Typical. Rainy weekend beckons for Silverstone. Will Jenson Button equal Schumi's record of consecutive wins? But we're all off to Silverstone to see for ourselves this weekend. :D :D Wildy's idea of a Papa's day treat for me. :bow: But what do folk think about the possibilty of the "breakaway... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Environmental benefits of scrapping? |
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 20:38
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| There's no definative answer, just all sorts of wildly different figures about regarding the pollution of building a new car v. running an old one for longer. For me thats one of the biggest flaws in the carbon end-of-the-world-know-it theory; if it's that important, we should have government approv... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Share the space - CW star letter June |
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 08:08
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| Well said, that man. Not all white van drivers are idiots though, although I know what he means... ;-) That disappointed me. He started off so well, accepting that cyclists, like all road-using groups (and people in general) have a bad element amongst the sensible law abiding mass that people apply... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Failed lights at crossroads |
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 16:43
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| Who has priority? To my mind, no-one, really. Approach carefully, be ready to stop dead and give way to anyone already on the junction. Yet as I approached a crossroads yesterday, in the rain for added fun, complete with the yellow crossed-out-light sign, intending to turn right, moved into the junc... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: CW Editorial 30 April Crazy Driving by one of us! |
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 16:25
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| He automatically would expect a cyclist to be a more considerate motorist? Thats a simplistic, flawed and maybe quite arrogant assumption, the reality is similar in context to weepej's post in the red light thread: I'm always amazed that when I'm out walking with somebody they might moan at people i... |
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