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Forum: General Chat Topic: Buy a Toyota Prius and kill the world |
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 18:44
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| - Do hybrid vehciles like the Prius save energy over a lifetime (dust to dust energy cost?) (no chance). Someone in the USA has just completed a study along these lines. IIRC dust to dust energy cost of a Prius turned out to be higher than a Hummer H3. Also the hybrid Honda Accord was higher than t... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving test to go green with eco-questions |
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 21:51
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Gizmo wrote: PC questions are easy to pass, you just have to bite your tongue and tell them what they want to hear....what a joke
 Won't be long before you can pass anything as long as you write the answers in green ink. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Why do people use front fogs? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 21:41
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Replies: 33
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Have used a FIAT system which automatically switches off fogs if it thinks it's not foggy enough. At least I think that's what it was doing. The other possibility is that it's shit.  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Remembrance Sunday |
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 20:50
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Replies: 35
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| I can sort of see where Peter Snow is coming from. I imagine that having a famous face makes you an instant target for every good cause to ask you to show your support in front of the cameras, and there's no way anyone can support them all. And when it comes to poppies the past have sacrifice of liv... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving test to go green with eco-questions |
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 03:15
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| :rotfl: But something out there tells me you are right.. it's life Gatosbait but not as we know it.. and I guess we have a whole new meaning to "Klingons on the Starboard side.." :wink: Could be a lot of mileage in this. LTi 20-20 Death-To-Your-Licence Ray, DSA space cadets, Alastair Darl... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Remembrance Sunday |
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 02:40
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Replies: 35
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| I'm as anti war as the next man, but I've had a poppy at this time of year ever since I can remember. If you remember the sacrifice and suffering there's all the more reason to aim for peaceful solutions in the future, which is why AFAIC a red poppy is also a symbol of peace. What a superb picture..... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving test to go green with eco-questions |
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 01:13
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CJG wrote: Have aliens from the Planet Stupid invaded us?
Nope. Just taken over I think.  |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving test to go green with eco-questions |
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 13:29
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| http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22749-2437982,00.html Driving test to go green with eco-questions Dipesh Gadher CONGRATULATIONS Miss Jones, you’ve passed your driving test — now get on your bike. Officials are planning to make the driving test eco-friendly by asking learners ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: What a country! |
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 01:23
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| http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/05/do0510.xml We don't like your charity, so we'll close it By Alasdair Palmer Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 05/11/2006 Next week, the new Charities' Bill will finish its passage through Parliament. It should become law before the end of... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Remembrance Sunday |
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 00:55
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pogo wrote: Ditto the Mennen Gate, all those names, all those men who were never even recovered for burial...
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Will Longstaff
Says it all. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insurance Q - Moving uninsured car from a repair garage |
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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 00:31
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Ian Vinten wrote: Sorry for the n00b question - what's a reccer quote??
 Sorry. Reccer = recovery vehicle. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insurance Q - Moving uninsured car from a repair garage |
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 18:10
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| Just out of interest, how did you persuade the insurance company to pay out on a car they wanted to write off? Have you looked into the obvious stuff like getting reccer quotes? Won't be cheap I imagine. Perhaps you could insure it as normal, pay on monthly installments, and cancel the policy the mi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: forced to join a Union? |
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 17:27
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| i remember the english MPs moaning a few months ago about having no voice in Scottish decisions but Scottish MPs could vote down south. it was obviously too much for them to figure out that Scottish laws dont affect them so why should they be involved? but their laws affect all of us. complex stuff... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Ditching the minimum age for driving |
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 14:06
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| From the Raising legal driving age thread. Ooh look, another pointless numerical limit. That'll solve the problem... :roll: Or perhaps it's time to get rid of the production line driving school idea and return to 20/30 years ago - where teenagers were taught to drive first, then taught to pass the t... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving tests are a waste of time |
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:32
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| But then , as i said elsewhere - in days of old ,before production line driVer training - someone would have taught him what to do in a skid, as ice happens EVERY YEAR. From what I remember of my lessons any discussion of what to do when skidding was pretty rudimentary. Probably just a brief explan... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: BBC News website video |
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 19:22
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Graeme wrote: Same clip has just been on BBC 6 o'clock news
Saw it. The caption said Paul Smith from "Speed Safe".  Only two words in the name, and the BBC still stuff it up. |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: New Blind Spot |
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 20:58
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| I'll have to look at the blind spot mirror idea. The mirror sits quite deep so it might be a case of hunting for just the right one. I'll also have to ask the guy who owns it if he minds, but I can't think why anyone would object to adding stuff that may prevent a collision. Ta. |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: New Blind Spot |
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Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 20:52
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| This caused a near miss the other day, and I thought I'd share it as I haven't worked out a solution yet. In L3 on the 5 lane section of the M25, and I need to move over into L2 as the M3 interchange is coming up. What happened next was along the lines of mirrors... signal... mano :o -where the hell... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: The Thorny Issue of HELMETS! |
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 23:54
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Replies: 146
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| Then a piece of safety equipment that won't be effective for a lot of the time seems a bit pointless. saying that is no different to the "if you hit me at 30 I'm going to die" claims. Out of interest, how easy is it to exceed 12mph on a bicycle? solo cruising speed (ie on the flat) 15-20mph. Club r... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Sat Nav display distraction |
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 23:33
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Replies: 216
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| :yesyes: Well, not a III but it is a Street Pilot. Not very expensive one I think - got the wheely button in the middle. But I probably wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than full on voice control anyway. I really want to be able to just call out a postcode or road name to make it go. I'd als... |
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