There's no need in the lower speed limits - they're posted for a reason. The only place it doesn't bother me much is on a motorway, where in flowing traffic the lanes usually give you a choice of speeds. If the outer one is doing 80 that's up to them. It's the @erosols who can't fit in and try to force their way through in bursts of speed that everybody really hates. Although sometimes you realise it's an ambulance...
It's just inconvenient when none of the lanes are moving at your ideal cruising speed, but constantly swapping lanes increases your stress and just messes up the flow of traffic behind you.
But then again the ones I really hate are the idiots that just sit in one lane, typically the middle, even when the rest of the motorway is empty. I just think if someone is so stupid they don't know the highway code for the motorway they should not have a license.
I'm all in favour of having to re-sit your test every 10 years. That would sort out a lot of problems drivers have to contend with daily on the roads. The thing is, attention is always focussed on the fatality statistics, which centre around rare but costly events and mainly new young male drivers, instead of what everyone experiences, day in, day out.
The other problem I have is with people who drive for most of their job - vans and reps particularly. In every other factor of your job, you're supervised, and you're incentivised to improve and penalised if you get worse. But when it comes to driving, no-one is taking any notice of whether you're getting better or worse at it. And you can see how that turns out everywhere you go.
Dislike people that drive the absolute speed limit, even slowing down when taking a normal wide corner, forcing you and others to drive 10km/h slower than what is optimal for your car engine.
Furthermore, they think that because the speedometer reads "80km/h" then they're actually going 80km/h. Speedometers are inaccurate and usually show 10 less or so.
So going 90km/h means you're actually traversing 80km/h.
Modern cars have extremely accurate speedometers, with older cars it does make sense to work out where the true speeds are with a straight road and a GPS. I drive at 120kph indicated on the motorway for example because when the needle touches 120 I know I'm actually going 70mph.
Modern cars have extremely accurate speedometers, with older cars it does make sense to work out where the true speeds are with a straight road and a GPS. I drive at 120kph indicated on the motorway for example because when the needle touches 120 I know I'm actually going 70mph.
I remember hearing / reading somewhere they are calibrated to a lower speed.. so 30 is 27mph etc .. "Margin of error "..
some bloke who owned a focus was on telly about 5 years back (maybe a design fault) who was constantly caught for speeding , it was found the speedo from the factory wasn't 100% accurate
Speedometers are always set below by whatever their margin of error as it's a legal requirement that they must not under-read.
Old mechanical tachs obviously had a very wide margin of error. Modern electronic ones are vastly more accurate. The error probably all comes from the tyres wearing down these days. :smile:
The law for speedos is that they must never report that you're travelling at a slower speed than you actually are, but also must never report higher than your actual speed times 110% plus 6.25 mph.
So, when your speedo says 70mph, you might actually be going as slow as 58mph. That said, I'd expect most manufacturers would aim for the middle of the range to be on the safe side, so you're probably somewhere in the mid 60s.
Advanced Sudden Braking When You Notice A Copper Parked On The Second Bridge Of An Elevated Interchange Simulator.
You score points for speeding to your destination but lose them for being seen by the fuzz.
For added excitement, it tracks your potential penalty for speeding as you go through their visible range, but then randomly decides whether or not to give you the penalty. And there should be only one pixel visible difference between Police and Highways Agency vehicles.
Or Advanced Autoglass Business Enhancement Simulator, a 'caravan' type restricted shooter where you have only a red audi and a stretch of the M4 to play on. The trick is to join the M4 westbound from the A34, pull out just in front of another vehicle and suddenly accelerate, so your rear wheels momentarily spin up the crap all over the road and see how many other cars' windscreens you can smash before you reach Swindon. It has full online multi-player play and scoreboards but you immediately lose all points if someone else playing does it to you. You then incur a four-day penalty waiting for the ham-fisted t**t to turn up, completely f**k the windscreen with the pressurised glue gun, then wait another week driving round with a complete side-to-side fracture for a replacement windscreen.
Or Advanced Autoglass Business Enhancement Simulator, a 'caravan' type restricted shooter where you have only a red audi and a stretch of the M4 to play on. The trick is to join the M4 westbound from the A43, pull out just in front of another vehicle and suddenly accelerate, so your rear wheels momentarily spin up the crap all over the road and see how many other cars' windscreens you can smash before you reach Swindon. It has full online multi-player play and scoreboards but you immediately lose all points if someone else playing does it to you. You then incurr a four-day penalty waiting for the ham-fisted t**t to turn up, completely f**k the windscreen with the pressurised glue gun, then wait another week driving round with a complete side-to-side fracture for a replacement windscreen.
I can just hear the beeper's Autoglass theme tune now... "BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-beep-beeeep, beep-beep-beep-BEEP-BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!"
That Autoglass advert (and radio advertising in general) would've been no. 1 on my list until I changed jobs 2 years ago and stopped listening to commercial radio. I'll give them something to "repair" and "replace"... :mad:
And 'flavoured water' is not juice. Juice is juice. Concentrated then re-hydrated juice is sort-of juice. Squash made with some juice, chemical flavour enhancers and colour extracted from vegetables and dead bugs is not juice. Cordial made with completely artificial chemicals is definitely not juice. And a whiff of those fake chemicals in a bottle of sugary water is in no way whatsoever 'juice'.
And 'flavoured water' is not juice. Juice is juice. Concentrated then re-hydrated juice is sort-of juice. Squash made with some juice, chemical flavour enhancers and colour extracted from vegetables and dead bugs is not juice. Cordial made with completely artificial chemicals is definitely not juice. And a whiff of those fake chemicals in a bottle of sugary water is in no way whatsoever 'juice'.
That's not the original recipe for Sunny Delight that you're referring to, by any chance? :smile:
The trick is to join the M4 westbound from the A34, pull out just in front of another vehicle and suddenly accelerate, so your rear wheels momentarily spin up the crap all over the road and see how many other cars' windscreens you can smash before you reach Swindon.
someone I know of got killed by something similar 10+ years ago, car in front dislodged a cats eye in the road and it went thru the passenger side of the windscreen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemistry . really bizarre accident.
someone I know of got killed by something similar 10+ years ago, car in front dislodged a cats eye in the road and it went thru the passenger side of the windscreen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemistry . really bizarre accident.
It's crap like that that's led me to recognise cars with rear wheel drive and be sure to leave a good braking distance and then some. Of course that often means that some p***k in a similar car is going to pull out into the gap...
It's crap like that that's led me to recognise cars with rear wheel drive and be sure to leave a good braking distance and then some. Of course that often means that some p***k in a similar car is going to pull out into the gap...
Does the extra torque really make that much difference?
I'll switch it back to cyclists.. since I didn't see em mentioned ;) .the ones who at a main junction on the pedestrian bit!! I gave one of em a right telling off.
the cyclists teens who leave their bikes sprawled on the ground and go into a shop.. It'd be great if someone just lifted em.. the ones who cycle on the pavement inc. adults, even though it's a 1 way system.. I'd love to just clothes line (as in the wrestling move)
?30 fine for jumping lights.. wonder how much for the pavement.. they'd start clearing up if they enforced it
lemming L plate fools on mopeds are another source of annoyance, when they are reving the **** out of their lawn mower type engines to get 15mph
...the cyclists teens who leave their bikes sprawled on the ground and go into a shop.. It'd be great if someone just lifted em...
Or do like in that candid camera movie/show from the 80s where they took a person's bike and hoisted it over a lamppost so it touched the ground but was of course entangled.
Or do like in that candid camera movie/show from the 80s where they took a person's bike and hoisted it over a lamppost so it touched the ground but was of course entangled.
Hmmm, wonder if it's on youtube.
they did it recently across the UK to see if people would steal the bike.. it was on a wire also, but you didn't find that out till 2 metres away.
was a show about morals, and various set ups..e.g. a blind man in a pub and a woman nicking his chips and taking a glass of wine out of his bottle etc.
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Yeah, I can see that one going down well with the old bill...
"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
"Drive a little over the speed limit and everyones happy!??!?!?"
"Can you step out of the car please, sir?"
It's just inconvenient when none of the lanes are moving at your ideal cruising speed, but constantly swapping lanes increases your stress and just messes up the flow of traffic behind you.
But then again the ones I really hate are the idiots that just sit in one lane, typically the middle, even when the rest of the motorway is empty. I just think if someone is so stupid they don't know the highway code for the motorway they should not have a license.
I'm all in favour of having to re-sit your test every 10 years. That would sort out a lot of problems drivers have to contend with daily on the roads. The thing is, attention is always focussed on the fatality statistics, which centre around rare but costly events and mainly new young male drivers, instead of what everyone experiences, day in, day out.
The other problem I have is with people who drive for most of their job - vans and reps particularly. In every other factor of your job, you're supervised, and you're incentivised to improve and penalised if you get worse. But when it comes to driving, no-one is taking any notice of whether you're getting better or worse at it. And you can see how that turns out everywhere you go.
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No, take a chill pill :p
Modern cars have extremely accurate speedometers, with older cars it does make sense to work out where the true speeds are with a straight road and a GPS. I drive at 120kph indicated on the motorway for example because when the needle touches 120 I know I'm actually going 70mph.
You would get on well with my missus. She also believes that speed limits are entirely optional ;-)
I remember hearing / reading somewhere they are calibrated to a lower speed.. so 30 is 27mph etc .. "Margin of error "..
some bloke who owned a focus was on telly about 5 years back (maybe a design fault) who was constantly caught for speeding , it was found the speedo from the factory wasn't 100% accurate
Old mechanical tachs obviously had a very wide margin of error. Modern electronic ones are vastly more accurate. The error probably all comes from the tyres wearing down these days. :smile:
So, when your speedo says 70mph, you might actually be going as slow as 58mph. That said, I'd expect most manufacturers would aim for the middle of the range to be on the safe side, so you're probably somewhere in the mid 60s.
roads would be much safer.
:razz:
You score points for speeding to your destination but lose them for being seen by the fuzz.
For added excitement, it tracks your potential penalty for speeding as you go through their visible range, but then randomly decides whether or not to give you the penalty. And there should be only one pixel visible difference between Police and Highways Agency vehicles.
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That really would be a trick! :wink:
why don't they call it what it is: Juice!
because they'd get done for false advertising since it isn't?
Juice presumably has to actually be some actual percentage juice...
I can just hear the beeper's Autoglass theme tune now... "BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-beep-beeeep, beep-beep-beep-BEEP-BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!"
That Autoglass advert (and radio advertising in general) would've been no. 1 on my list until I changed jobs 2 years ago and stopped listening to commercial radio. I'll give them something to "repair" and "replace"... :mad:
And 'flavoured water' is not juice. Juice is juice. Concentrated then re-hydrated juice is sort-of juice. Squash made with some juice, chemical flavour enhancers and colour extracted from vegetables and dead bugs is not juice. Cordial made with completely artificial chemicals is definitely not juice. And a whiff of those fake chemicals in a bottle of sugary water is in no way whatsoever 'juice'.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
That's not the original recipe for Sunny Delight that you're referring to, by any chance? :smile:
someone I know of got killed by something similar 10+ years ago, car in front dislodged a cats eye in the road and it went thru the passenger side of the windscreen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemistry . really bizarre accident.
Very much so. It sounds like a fate that'd befall a drummer from Spinal Tap, not a real musician.
I thought car decapitations were reserved for bass players? :D
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Does the extra torque really make that much difference?
the cyclists teens who leave their bikes sprawled on the ground and go into a shop.. It'd be great if someone just lifted em.. the ones who cycle on the pavement inc. adults, even though it's a 1 way system.. I'd love to just clothes line (as in the wrestling move)
?30 fine for jumping lights.. wonder how much for the pavement.. they'd start clearing up if they enforced it
lemming L plate fools on mopeds are another source of annoyance, when they are reving the **** out of their lawn mower type engines to get 15mph
Or do like in that candid camera movie/show from the 80s where they took a person's bike and hoisted it over a lamppost so it touched the ground but was of course entangled.
Hmmm, wonder if it's on youtube.
No non-tw@t has ever done that in public.
(Oooooh, thank ye ccowley!)
they did it recently across the UK to see if people would steal the bike.. it was on a wire also, but you didn't find that out till 2 metres away.
was a show about morals, and various set ups..e.g. a blind man in a pub and a woman nicking his chips and taking a glass of wine out of his bottle etc.