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graball

Post subject: Re: Ignorance as a reason for speeding?

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 16:05

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Perhaps we need a remote control so that any driver coming up behind, can turn off another driver's rear fogs? That would be fun! They could come back on again when either the following driver felt it appropriate or when the car in front got more than a certain distance away.

Waht a brilliant invention that would be and how about one that turned on someones headlights in fog for them tooo... ;-)

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but I don't know how useful they will be when all vehicles are fitted with them. I think people will then stop noticing them and they might even make things like pedestrians horses and cyclists LESS vsisble in traffic.

Yes, I've often thought this.

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dcbwhaley

Post subject: Re: Ignorance as a reason for speeding?

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 16:11

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Mole wrote:

Not quite so sure about DRLs. I think it's good that bikes have to keep their headlights on all the time and I can't deny that the current crop of Audis are very visible with their LED DRLs, but I don't know how useful they will be when all vehicles are fitted with them. I think people will then stop noticing them and they might even make things like pedestrians horses and cyclists LESS vsisble in traffic.

Yes. The CTC's official policy is agin em on just those grounds. Mind you one plank of their argument is that a cyclist best warning of a motor vehicle is the noise so I expect them to succumb to schizophrenia about electric cars

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dcbwhaley

Post subject: Re: Ignorance as a reason for speeding?

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 16:14

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graball wrote:

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More seriously: a device which turned off the HIRL if there was a car a certain distance behind you - that distance dependant on the visibility

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