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Forum: General Chat Topic: Number 1 Numpty Car |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 13:13
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| I emphasise that you cannot nominate a genre/manufacturer etc. You must nominate a single model. And give reasons. BMW X5. Because they seem to drive about 2 feet behind your rear bumper, regardless of conditions or speed, even if they don't want to overtake. 4x4s driven on the school run with one ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: global-getting-slightly-hotter |
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 15:08
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Replies: 295
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| Spot on! It's absolutely political. Always has been. Well, clearly. For instance, when Ahrennius identified the greenhouse effect circa 1896, is was clearly part of a personal crusade against mass SUV ownership. Only problem - minor, I know - is that once we rip this effect out of the textbooks, ca... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What can you say? |
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Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 13:52
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Replies: 18
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| As a rather pedantic related point, do you commit an offence if you drive (at any speed) with your mandatory drivers side mirror retracted? No, you just have to make sure you are going so fast that there is no-one behind you. (It's a bit like if your brakes fail, drive home as fast as possible befo... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: M6 hard shoulder 'should be used' |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 14:43
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Replies: 3
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| That is the DFT's "big idea" for almost every busy motorway. Very soon we will not have the fundimental safety featore of the motorway system. Hmmm.. THEN they'll reduce motorway speed limits to 50mph bacause there is no hard shoulder.. I thought the other idea was to get half the populat... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Motorist group takes control of Council |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 13:40
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Replies: 9
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wayneo wrote: It can be done!
Now we just need in in Bath as well..
(Actually, there needs to be a motorway between the M4 and M5 passing south of Bristol and Bath, since both cities are a traffic nightmare at the moment.. but that's just a pipe dream, of course..) |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Proposals to scrap annual MOT tests |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 14:34
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Replies: 18
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| I could understand the 4 year wait, since cars are more reliable nowadays than in the past. But if 30 percent of cars are failing, that shows that it's needed.. You could test at 4, 6, and 8 years and then once a year afterwards; you have to be careful of people buying an old car that only just pass... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 60,000 kids ignore 6 pointer returns to Provisional Status. |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 13:18
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| I think the driving age could be raised to 18, but in the US a lot of states have a minimum age of 16, and some states this is lower for learners. Are their teenages more mature than ours? No, but driving in the US is a lot simpler - junctions all have traffic lights or STOP signs for all carridgew... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: forced to give up work |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:02
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| You could always do what loads of other smokers (who show a bit of consideration for non smokers do ) ---go outside. Speaking as an ex-smoker - Smokers already contribute more extra taxes than they will use in extra medical care, thus helping to fund the NHS, and at the same time drop dead 3 years ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Hackers can take over car navigation system |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:44
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Replies: 19
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| The NIMBYs who don't want people driving down "their" roads would love to be able to use such equipment. Just as well that most of them are fuddy-duddies who couldn't even work out how to use a microwave. At least I hope that's the case. :twisted: Next time I drive up to Cambridge... M4, ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: members occupations |
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 14:24
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Replies: 74
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| Student at the moment - Got A levels in c. 1 month :D Then I'm hopefully off to university to study Physics =D Good luck. (Inset whine about 'A levels were much harder when I were a lad circa 1991). Well, I do use student in the broadest sense possible - You guys would probably all call me a waster... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M42 Variable speed limits |
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 14:14
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Replies: 18
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gopher wrote: I shall compare it again this year but in my experience (which is limited I know) it appears to be a vast improvement.
I don't mind the whole reduced-speed-limit thing in this case, it was just the way it changed every few hundred yards. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Biofuels .. Ethics.. and more green than thee again! |
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 09:18
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| You appear to be making the classic mistake that cars, rather than people, consume resources. Unfortunately, we have a planet of finite size capable of sustaining a finite maximum population size. That maximum population size is, however, entriely determined by what technology we use. Capitalism - ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M42 Variable speed limits |
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 13:46
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| So I'm driving on the M42 from the M40 junction to the M6 junction last Thursday. This section is very busy, so they have put up variable speed limits; I think someone's worked out that this improves traffic flow, but clearly the controllers have different priorities.. Quite literally, EVERY other s... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Specs cameras and roadworks |
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 13:22
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Replies: 34
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| Well It looks like i was correct that they DO reduce speed through roadworks sections BUT it seems they dont increase saftey going by the fugures above!. As devils advocate - Is there a study into the severity of the crashes - ie there may be more on specs areas but fewer injuries due to the reduec... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: global-getting-slightly-hotter |
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 14:47
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Replies: 295
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| is there actually any positive proof that Global Warming is Man made? (a) Direct radiative measurements. (b) The pattern of changes, with the greatest increases in the polar regions, is a confirmation of model predictions. (c) Solar proxies have been flat since 1950 or so, temperatures haven't. (d)... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: global-getting-slightly-hotter |
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 15:46
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| But that dosen't stop the science behind AGW being accurate. It can't be accurate. We haven't had accurate enough instruments to measure global temperature precicely enough for that long. The models and theories are based on what we THINK we know and for all we know we could be a million miles adri... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: global-getting-slightly-hotter |
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:55
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Replies: 295
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| (e) Impossibility of accounting for the past 150 years of climate without man-made GHGs. Bollocks. The best estimate we have for the age of Planet Earth is 345 billion years. I'm sure there's plenty that has gone on in that time that we have no explanation for, so perhaps you'd like to blame us for... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: global-getting-slightly-hotter |
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 16:41
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Replies: 295
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| is there actually any positive proof that Global Warming is Man made? (a) Direct radiative measurements. (b) The pattern of changes, with the greatest increases in the polar regions, is a confirmation of model predictions. (c) Solar proxies have been flat since 1950 or so, temperatures haven't. (d)... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road Pricing Payment Methods |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 16:24
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Replies: 34
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| On the other hand, if you're doing 500 miles a week, on a variety of different roads, and ofter driving in rush hours, then undoubtedly you would want an itemised bill. Unfortunately you cannot have an itemised bill as..If the information is not held how can an itemised bill be prepared? Just wait ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Why don't the police stop 40 everywhere drivers? |
| AndyRadstock |
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 16:04
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Replies: 71
Views: 23245
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| When I was learning to drive I was taugt to drive 'top the limit' and i'd be rebuked (word of the day) if my driving was below the limit without good reason. I only did my test 3 1/2 years ago, and they told me that doing 40 in a perfectly clear stretch of NSL would probably get you failed. Driving... |
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