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56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

I don't know anything about Sweden's roads, or if it was a camera, but this is almost certainly a fair cop.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10960230

Although the local police are clearly on message "It's not controllable" - a clear falsehood as in the right conditions (racetrack) people regularly control it.


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Evidently he controlled it!

Stopping distance:
- assuming typical non-stimulating conditions and car with drum brakes (0.67s, 0.67G) = 547m
- assuming atypical stimulating conditions and decent car such as an AMG (0.5s, 1.0G) = 370m

So where did the "must have" come from?

(I don't know enough to comment on whether the driving was or wasn't dangerous in this case)

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Given the car has the latest carbon ceramic braking technology and the marketing blurb makes a point of the extremely short stopping distances then perhaps even 370m is an overestimate. I can think of at least one stretch of road where even a 500m stopping distance would not be an issue at times.

I like this bit



Just get a vagrant to max your car out for you.

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If he refused to pay and said he would go to jail, would he get 1000 years inside?

IMO, totally daft.

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Differential fines based on income tend to allow scrotes to get away with paying nothing, or next to nothing.

This was tried in this country in the early 90s, and produced such wildly disproportionate results that it was soon dropped.

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