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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driverless cars on the streets of Britain by the end of year |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 14:36
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| It's not the technical problems which will stop or delay these developments, it's the legal liability issues. Who will the police arrest when one of these inevitably kills someone? The software engineer? Will I be able to be over the drink drive limit and sit in the back while an autonomous car take... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: That gut wrench feeling |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 15:30
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Replies: 26
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| I like to feel that I am quite observant. Observant enough to look for unmarked car drivers wearing reflective jackets. My plea to builders and dustmen going to work is "don't wear hi-viz in the car". It just winds me up unnecessarily. You are right about the proliferation of vans with che... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Belfast Telegraph - Cyclists Crash Death Accidental |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 15:53
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Replies: 16
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| So, what do we have here? - Speed in excess of the limit (yes, I know this is for motor vehicles) - Racing on the public highway (or was it euphemistically a "time trial"?) - Motorist doing his best to mitigate the collision (15mph) If this had been a car driver just imagine the quotes fro... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Loonies in power in Birmingham |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:58
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Replies: 6
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| From the Coventry Telegraph: "Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a 20mph speed limit where a student was knocked over and killed in Coventry last month." From the photos and video of the accident location on the entrance to Tescos car park, it would seem extremely unlik... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Belfast Telegraph - New Cameras Spot Traffic Offences |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 14:34
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Replies: 3
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| Typical obfuscation. Mt Patel is qouted as saying "the system was installed to counter the high number of drivers that were ignoring the traffic restrictions that were in place, causing severe safety hazards to pedestrians and other drivers. The system is working well and we have captured a num... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: That gut wrench feeling |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 17:29
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Replies: 26
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| This location is a favourite one for the mobile vans as there is no discernable change in the road conditions to warrant the limit change. They have been camping out at this point for years and all the locals know it. The question they should ask is "was it dangerous?" but compliance with ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Motorway speed cameras to be rolled out ... |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 19:24
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| These are not stealth cameras they are more visible that they were before. These motorways are not about speed limits. They are about smoothing the traffic flows and increasing capacity.” The spokesman said the new cameras would be signposted and added: “The onus is on the driver to abide by the sp... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Belfast Telegraph - Driver road rage at cyclist |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 17:18
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Replies: 7
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Ah, excellent. I now have permission to use the most gross stereotypes about any group of road users without any comeback.
Which group shall I choose I wonder...? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: IAM Poll for Speed Limits for Environment |
| malcolmw |
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 17:38
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Replies: 19
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| I am not sure that the IAM should be involved with this type of political issue. In fact I'm not sure about the value of the IAM at all. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Motorists face 60mph speed limit on motorways |
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 15:40
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Replies: 10
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclists Hurt in Accident |
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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 08:48
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Replies: 78
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| When i was little my mum used to say to me something along the lines of.... When you are older you will have to look after yourself and not expect others to look after you..... It seems like some cyclists have never grown up. graball, your mum was wrong I'm afraid. If I'm walking along a pavement a... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclists Hurt in Accident |
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Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 11:59
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Replies: 78
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| but frankly they need to say that cyclists need to look out for themselves as all road users have to. I'm trying hard to understand the motivation for this attitude. Commonsense? The foundation of all safety systems is the responsibility of all those involved to look after the safety of themselves ... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclists filmed jumping red lights-taxi drivers' hidden cams |
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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 14:38
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Replies: 68
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| My vote for the most dumbass things that the "experts" locally to me are installing are the vision obstructing panels on the central reservations on the approach roads to larger roundabouts. They block your view to the right so that you can't see traffic already on the roundabout. So now, ... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: Getting them young |
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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 17:48
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| The Government and Local Authorities are not interested in giving "advantage to a future driver". They actually want to put off all young people from driving to ease congestion and claim reduced deaths in this age group. This BBC article give you a flavour. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/244815... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclist Killed in London |
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Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 15:07
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Replies: 35
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| The YouTube film is very interesting. I note the lorry actually seems to have its left indicator on. One of the comments sums up my view: "All this video does is make cyclists look like idiots. I am sorry but who in there right mind would come up the inside of a lorry that is indicating left? B... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclist runs into back of car |
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Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 08:50
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Replies: 14
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| No, he doesn't need the money to compensate for the damage. He just needs to give a false name and nobody can trace him from his registration number. Job done. |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclist Killed in London |
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 17:02
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Replies: 35
Views: 18555
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| Six deaths in 2 weeks. Would this have anything to do with the clocks going back? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: One for Mobile Phone Lovers |
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 09:19
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclist Killed in London |
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Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 16:08
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| What a lot of socialist rubbish from the Independent, imagining some evil plot behind a sensible comment from the mayor. In the accident originally discussed, who was the "victim"? IMO, the cyclist was the perpetrator leaving the bus driver as the victim, traumatised for the rest of his li... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Cyclist Killed in London |
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 16:55
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Replies: 35
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| In the Times (a paper campaigning for safer cycling) today: Boris Johnson warned London’s cyclists today that they had to “obey the law of the roads” after it emerged that a man killed in a collision with a double-decker bus had just ridden the wrong way up a one-way street. Transport for London sai... |
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