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Forum: Polls Topic: Daydreaming & Auto-pilot |
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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 02:34
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| 1st of all, DayDreaming & Auto-Pilot are, to my mind, two completely different mental states. DayDreaming is a completely unproductive mental state roughly equivalent to dreaming while asleep, one's body is accomplishing nothing productive, except possibly to betray that the daydreamer is paying... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Rolling out speed cameras applies brakes to motorists SCOT. |
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 19:23
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| Camera use has made my driving worse these past years. I now concentrate around the road and not on the road. I am never relaxed and concentrating on the areas that are required for safe driving. Higher speeds mean more concentration and one cannot do that when seeking out any cameras that may be a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Arizona: Police Report Shows Speed Camera Caused Accident |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 21:41
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| If the speed cameras were concealed rather than being in full view the problem of drivers braking when they see them would not occur :bunker: If the speed cameras were perfectly concealed, people would behave normally, driving safely 99.9% of the time, they'd get tickets, and then wonder why law en... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Arizona: Police Report Shows Speed Camera Caused Accident |
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 06:06
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| In this case we could end up with two primary causes in tandem: ... The two primary factors are the cause of Driver A's action combined with the inability of Driver B to drive in a manner that allowed enough of a gap to allow them to deal with a hazard. The article provided: twice infers that Drive... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Only 2.5% people can drive safely and chat on a phone |
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 22:24
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| But again it's the lowest common denominator theory. Old Mrs Jones has trouble keeping her car in a straight line and stopping it at anything over 40MPH ... so should all speed limits be set at 40MPH? [Smarmy sarcasm] Yes. If they aren't going fast enough to K/SI each other, the increased number of... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Only 2.5% people can drive safely and chat on a phone |
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 20:53
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| It's a bit like the William Tell thing of him (supposedly) shooting arrows off his son's head. THe elf and softy brigade would lock him up now purely because no one else had the ability to copy him. And I can drive quite safely after four pints of beer. Are you suggesting that there should be a law... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Only 2.5% people can drive safely and chat on a phone |
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 20:00
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| Not that I approve of this, but what is observed in the 'real world', tells us much about people beliefs, psychology and legal respect. We can use this as a warning to tell us they are a 'hazard' and take all appropriate action/s ... We could judge them but that is really not a positive action on a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Only 2.5% people can drive safely and chat on a phone |
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 21:13
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weepej wrote: The Rush wrote: Being on the phone proves nothing; driving like an idiot certainly does. Being on the phone is driving like an idiot.
Mere correlation is not tantamount to causation. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Only 2.5% people can drive safely and chat on a phone |
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 20:42
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| And even if they had been "supertaskers" it would still have been illegal. The law does not allow for special abilities. But surely those that can do it can understand that most can't and therefore the law is still a good thing? Or do you want to say, well 5 people out of 200 can do it, s... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: What were they thinking ? |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 21:56
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| I don't want to start any Blasphemous Rumours, but ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Listen |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 21:53
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| Actually, what organisations could bring the road network to a halt simply by not working? The tanker drivers. Anyone else? Those organisations who govern speed enforcement and lower speed limits. ;) I reckon they could bring the road network to a complete halt within a month if they wanted. They c... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: BMW’s front-drive shock |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 21:36
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| Besides, while I acknowledge the undisputed advantages of rear wheel drive, I think BMW have rather down-played the (also indisputable!) advantages of front wheel drive - and there certainly are some! For those who see a personal vehicle merely as an alternative to mass transit, FWD's benefits are ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 85th Percentile sense - USA |
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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 20:33
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| ....An average of the 85th%ile ;) I know what you mean though ! Not the point - the point of course is that they take the 85th%ile when all conditions are good on an average section of the road so it is the true unimpeded Free Traveling speed that the driver has chosen to be safe to proceed. As opp... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Should hi-vis clothing be compulsory? |
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 02:47
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| Being stuck here in Amerika ... I carry eight Hi-Vis vests in my car because it's a great idea (a Caprice Wagon can hold seven passengers plus the driver). However ... If it became law, I'd still have them, but I'd be very unnerved. Trouble is that those who wear HI VIZ as part of their jobs, and re... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Big SUV = safe, grrr |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 17:09
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| Incidentally,The damage to both vehicles would have been more severe, and injuries to the fiesta driver more likely, if I hadn't had the bull-bars It's a very well known fact that bullbars, pushbumpers, and grilleguards tend to be worthwhile investments in the event of a collision. They often sacri... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Concern over rural driving skills |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 02:23
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Reduced braking and reduced evasive capacities due to a higher probability for understeer and/or oversteer play crucial roles in collisions that take place when the steering wheel isn't already straight to begin with.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Big SUV = safe, grrr |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 02:05
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| In my experience (which does include two demolition derbies) ... When two vehicles of roughly equal weight strike each other, the one with greater crumple space for compacting will provide greater survivability. How often do vehicles of equal weight strike each other? When two vehicles of roughly eq... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Police to launch clampdown on dangerous drivers T.Wells |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 01:14
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| There are four main causes of collisions: driving under the influence of drink or drugs, excessive speed, the use of mobile phones and the failure to wear seatbelts.” This statement is not based on any logic, science, or reason ... at the very least blatantly inaccurate and misleading, at worst a b... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: 180k |
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 23:33
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| Time is the only commodity that is equally valuable to each person. You can always earn more money but time lost can't ever be recovered. Hence wasting people's time with community service is more equitable. I'm not sure that's always true, but in situations where a major violent crime hasn't been ... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Camera Use Change - I wonder .... |
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 19:32
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| Outfit them with seismic shock sensors so that they take pictures whenever a collision occurs in the vicinity of the camera. If they can also take and store pics two to five seconds before the collision, that would be an order of magnitude more instructive to future references. They claim that they ... |
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