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| 'Satellite Tracking' is Bullshit | 10 Jun 2005 18:04 GMT | 23 |
All this talk about 'satellite tracking' is utter tosh. GPS satellites don't track anybody. They can't. GPS receivers track the satellites. I admit it amounts to the same thing if your GPS receiver reports chapter and verse to HMG (who are
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| Stupid overtakers! | 10 Jun 2005 17:34 GMT | 17 |
They all drive like idiots (all apart from me of course ;-) )! This morning my engine was cold, so I was accelerating relatively slowly with my 39bhp motor. It was a dual carriageway with two lanes in my direction, and not many cars. As I'm doing about 40-50mph a few cars
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| Traffic Cops | 10 Jun 2005 15:54 GMT | 55 |
Numerous examples this week of people who thought they could drive but very clearly couldn't. Car down embankment, car into woods, car on roof, car in canal, etc. The most hilarious was the woman who turned out to pick up her friend who had left the road, and was told by the ...
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| new roundabout on a6003 | 10 Jun 2005 14:45 GMT | 1 |
http://www.northantsnews.com/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=664&ArticleID= 1052643 This roundabout is causing mass confusion. Went through it day after it opened and watched one prat in a purple suzuki vitara go through not one
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| Long wheelspins - update | 09 Jun 2005 23:43 GMT | 14 |
I tried the technique suggested by "DanTXD" - parked on a hill, allowed my car to gently roll back, full throttle, released clutch - wheelspin and then bang, bang, bang - *loads* of axle tramp. At one point I thought the struts were going to come through the bonnet! So
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| Raising driving age to 24 for males! | 09 Jun 2005 11:17 GMT | 55 |
Just read this in the paper, this idea is so stupid! How can you treat males different to females? Surely it's the same as treating black and white people differently. Raising it to 24 will be terrible for people who want to get a job.
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| Bad car(s)? | 08 Jun 2005 19:52 GMT | 46 |
My parents have got a brand new Fiesta, and I don't really like it that much. I'm really quite supprised because the reviews seem to indicate that they are relatively good. It feels very small/cramped inside, even compared to my Seicento. The insides feel cheap because it's all
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| Lorry driver in the right | 08 Jun 2005 18:26 GMT | 6 |
My collegue, PJ, described to me how a lorry and a car almost collided on the A1M this morning. I told PJ in my view the lorry driver was not at fault. PJ said something along the line of "fecking hell Ray, you had better post
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| Gridlock | 08 Jun 2005 16:53 GMT | 2 |
Well I got into a 3 car gridlock on holiday Car 1 (opposite me) pulled on to go straight over a min roundabout, I went over to go right, at the same time car 2 pulled out infront of car 1 and got trapped by my rear, car 1 trapped by car 2 and car 1 was trapped by me.
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| Cycle lane lip service. | 08 Jun 2005 16:51 GMT | 30 |
I guess there must some directive from on high to "persuade" councils that encouraging cycling is a good thing. It probably is a good thing for the planet and reasonably good for the health. Whatever, I get to work cool and comfortable whilst my cycling colleagues arrive smelling ...
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| Motor bike ? | 07 Jun 2005 23:41 GMT | 4 |
*If* you had a large petrol driven fan harness-mounted on your back, and you used it while sat on a bicycle......would that mean the bike is actually a motor vehicle? Gus.
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| IAM survey: Tailgating 'top driving threat' | 07 Jun 2005 11:55 GMT | 54 |
Driving too close to the car in front and using mobile phones are considered the biggest threats on UK roads, a survey says. More than half of more than 700 drivers surveyed by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) considered the two activities "highly dangerous".
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| Car insistently flashing ours late at night | 07 Jun 2005 10:40 GMT | 13 |
Coming back from Stratford around 10:30 pm Friday night -- just driving out of town on the 439, a car behind us started flashing us insistently. We ignored it and carried on -- the last we saw of it it was driving on its side lights and after a few minutes there was nothing behind ...
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| M25 roadworks between M4 and M3 | 06 Jun 2005 18:39 GMT | 5 |
I've observed a few things as I use this section of road quite often. There are what appear to be induction loops in the roadway under the gantries with the variable speed limit signs, as new ones are put up. Are these to trigger the cameras? Or are they for traffic management ...
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| Satellite tracking for charging... | 06 Jun 2005 17:18 GMT | 16 |
Surely though - there'll be a new trend in electronic counter measures - yes of course they will be illegal, but as they could save 100s of pounds per day for users. And if you get caught then it could just be "faulty"... I can see a lot of faulty ones...
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