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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Your opinion on an accident between my car & a moped on |
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 23:02
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| Incidentally, and very few drivers seem to know this, filtering is perfectly legal, and taught by most riding schools. I pop into safespeed every so often and without fail I always learn something. I have always thought that these riders where being a bit dodgy nipping between lanes (although I alw... |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Odd Driving |
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 22:34
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| Not really a near miss as nothing actually happened, just odd behavior from another driver. On the A1 in L1 happily driving quite late at night with the cruise-control set, came up to a roundabout just as a big 4x4 comes up quite close behind me (old merc thing - ML??). We were the only 2 cars on th... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: DfT Guide for Councils.. How to justify road charging.... |
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 22:48
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| Bedford council/s want to make the town a pedestrian precinct even though there is NO WAY for the traffic to get around the town....the A6 and the A428 BOTH go RIGHT THROUGH the town. No matter...the high street is going to be closed....sometime ! This is es pollution problem has been identified as... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road Pricing Payment Methods |
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 22:44
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| If (and it's a pretty big if) the price of petrol is severely dropped and the road fund licence dropped when the toll tax comes in, then the first thing I am doing is buying the biggest, fastest gas guzzler I can find! (fancy a Jag XKR). Where would be the incentive to drive a 1.0L box? I will also ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Street Lamp Camera Plan |
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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 13:20
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| I had the chance to play with QinetiQs MMW camera system last time i was at Malvern - very, very impressive. The leader of the team said that the biggest problem they had was designing a computer programme that generated a "fig leaf" to protect peoples modesty! I'm all for it at airports e... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2006 fatality stats |
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 22:38
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Very worrying figures - looks like the "buffer zone" in the loss of the downwards trend for deaths has now gone, and they are finally on the increase.
All predicted many moons ago on the Safespeed main site IIRC.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Windscreen condensation |
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 23:41
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| I had this problem in my old MG after the head gasket went (ahh, Rover's trusty K-series engine - happy days!). The engine access cover is on the parcel shelf so it filled the car with steam (fun at 60mph). After I got it fixed the condensation was terrible but one of those moisture absorbers (from ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road Rage Cyclist Smashed Pensioner's Car! |
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 23:22
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I'm impressed he got so angry that he managed to punch through her car window! Who is he the Hulk!?  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed Camera Petition |
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 23:20
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Who spellchecked the extra details bit? Traffic Offices? Gave me an amusing image of a large building zooming down the A1 on the lookout for muppets 
Name added anyway. |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Stats & cameras |
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:53
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| http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v206/abtrax_jimmy/image4.png Is it just me, or does this graph look a bit dodgy? The best fit line seems to fit very poorly for the last few years of the 1990s, with the last of the red diamonds seeming to trend well above the best fit line. If he included the 2000... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: no car, no work! |
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 17:20
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| Very good insight into the typical London-based government thinking on transport last week (during that programme where Jane Horricks is a housewife who becomes the PM, forget the name). They had the new "PM" instigating a "no car day" in the country every Wednesday for green rea... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Why do any of you find it necessary to speed? |
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:09
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| I would bet my years salary that if I covertly tailed Mosis around for a week I would catch him speeding at one point - especially if I sent him off outside his usual driving area on a long trip (Wales maybe). My wife followed the do-gooder lecturer from her speeding semina (they where both going ne... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A1 Black Cat Roundabout Question |
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 19:15
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| Cheers Dr L, :D nice image but that's the old roundabout - add a new whopping D/C between bedford road and the A1 north and increase the roundabout size by about 25% to bring things up to date. One day maybe GetMapping!plc will GetofftheirArses!plc and fly some more modern images and stop peddling t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A1 Black Cat Roundabout Question |
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 18:54
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| Here's a question for your combined driving wisdom: New improved Black Cat roundabout on the A1 (A1/A421 Junction south of St. Neots in Beds) has the main A1 D/c splitting into 3-lanes as you approach the r/b. To set the scene, the A1 runs north/south from the r/b, a new A421 D/C bypass and the old ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Lowering of Rural Speed Limits |
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 16:00
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| That van on the A1 at Sandy must be racking it in. I sit in the queue on the opposite side of the road most mornings and must see at least a driver a minute pulling out to overtake slow moving lorries and getting zapped for going over the 50 limit (or stamping on the brakes). Can't flash because you... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Defeating ANPRS and speed cameras |
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 18:58
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| Thanks Smeggy, all the ANPR stuff I've seen has been on the software development side, using multi-image character recognition from moving video (kept on chucking out the same numbers several hundred times until the vehicle moved out of shot). Using filtered single-image NIR seems pretty stupid, IIR... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Defeating ANPRS and speed cameras |
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:25
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| I'm fairly certain that the ANPR cameras are not infra-red but panchromatic, just like all modern video/digital cameras. The recorded image includes both the visible and the near infra-red part of the spectrum. During the day, the image appears normal (although trees etc. appear brighter as they ref... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: URGENT - Circular road 1/2006 just published |
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 15:11
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| My wee lad is three years old and is dead scared of jet engines. (The RAF tend to fly over our house fairly frequently and re-arrange the roof slates)! Sorry about that - they need to fly around low-level to train for all the little holidays uncle tony keeps sending them on (and to stop things bein... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: URGENT - Circular road 1/2006 just published |
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 21:13
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| While car manufacturers regularly seem to release news of their latest fully-automated car, they are unlikely to release such an actual car - just think of the liability claims when the electronics malfunction. If the electronics malfunction, the back-up system will take over. If that failed then a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: URGENT - Circular road 1/2006 just published |
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 16:15
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| I really worry about this continued push to lower and lower limits - surely if we want to get on as a civilisation and not stagnate we need to be going the other way? The technology is simple to allow vehicles to safely travel at almost any speed, certainly on major routes such as motorways. A drive... |
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