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DownwardDog said:
This is balls. That's a Huracan Performante Spyder LP640-4. If you leave it in 'Strada' mode and don't hoon it then it is probably one of the safest cars on the road as it has excellent brakes/tyres, electronic stability control (with 3 gyros and 3 interia sensors), ABS, drive by wire throttle control and computer controlled limited slip diff. If driven 'normally' it's safer than 99% of the other cars around it.
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Now factor in the sort of utter bellend who would actually drive one.

The noise lamborghinis make is an atrocity. If you think yourself entitled to inflict that shit on the general public for your own entertainment, then you're a bad person.
 
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T & P said:
I’m sure I remember reading within the last year or so about a police department warning drivers that even touching a mobile phone mounted on the dashboard that is being used as a sat-nav is against current motoring laws, because it is still a telecommunications device. Whereas touching a Tom-Tom device would be okay- which is of course the pinnacle of stupidity.
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Indeed. Using a satnav is just as distracting as using a phone and should also be banned.
 
SpookyFrank said:
Indeed. Using a satnav is just as distracting as using a phone and should also be banned.
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Nonsense. Before sat nav I would often have a map on my lap. And when integrated in to the car there is a map and a separate indication on next to the speedo, really helps you prepare better at tricky junctions and shit like that. Fiddling with it when moving is another matter tho...
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Nonsense. Before sat nav I would often have a map on my lap. And when integrated in to the car there is a map and a separate indication on next to the speedo, really helps you prepare better at tricky junctions and shit like that. Fiddling with it when moving is another matter tho...
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Absolutely. The lane indicators at junctions are a godsend, especially when you’re a bit pissed.
 
Looby said:
Got my new car and a week later someone reversed into me twice.

I was near a narrow bit of road with cars all along my side where you have to give way to wide oncoming traffic and the women in front of me decided she wasn’t going to (in an Audi obvs). The bus she had blocked from moving made her reverse back about 20 car lengths which she did really badly then got really close to me. I beeped her because she wasn’t stopping and she hit me, moved forward slightly then hit me again. I couldn’t reverse back to stop her as there was a queue of cars behind us.

The bus got through and she drove off. I thought she was going to pull over where she could but she kept driving. Selfish stupid fucking twat. There was no damage to my car but she didn’t know that.

I fucking hate people. I’ve had loads of damage to my cars in the past few years and only once was it my fault (reversed into a pillar).
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Audi drivers; got it in one.:mad::facepalm:
 
Never driven a car with a posh integrated sat nav that tells you what lane to go in but that would be great tbf. I use a tomtom sometimes which beeps at you if you inadvertantly creep over limit which is dead handy
 
polly said:
Oh Looby :mad: what a cunt. I'm so sorry. You've had so much shit luck with driving recently. What car did you get though?
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Thanks, it feels like it but it’s all been fairly minor damage. My mate has just had his car stolen and dumped. [emoji20]

I got a Vauxhall Mokka. Had one as a courtesy car and really liked it and the height is good for my dodgy knee.
 
Proper Tidy said:
Never driven a car with a posh integrated sat nav that tells you what lane to go in but that would be great tbf. I use a tomtom sometimes which beeps at you if you inadvertantly creep over limit which is dead handy
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I sort of miss my Tom Tom for that and mooing near farms.

I’ve been using Waze for a while which is good especially for the traffic info but just got a car with integrated sat nav. It’s nice but like Waze is quite slow sometimes so you can be nearly past a road and it’ll tell you to turn off.
 
Looby said:
Thanks, it feels like it but it’s all been fairly minor damage. My mate has just had his car stolen and dumped. [emoji20]

I got a Vauxhall Mokka. Had one as a courtesy car and really liked it and the height is good for my dodgy knee.
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Yeah well it could always be worse I guess but I hate that sort of selfish chipping away at the bank of human kindness. It's depressing. But yeah I'm glad your car is OK :D Looks really fancy :thumbs:
 
polly said:
Yeah well it could always be worse I guess but I hate that sort of selfish chipping away at the bank of human kindness. It's depressing. But yeah I'm glad your car is OK :D Looks really fancy :thumbs:
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I agree, people can be awful and doubly so when they get in a car. I’d never hit someone and drive off. Oh well, it’s all good and yeah the car is lovely. [emoji4]
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Nonsense. Before sat nav I would often have a map on my lap. And when integrated in to the car there is a map and a separate indication on next to the speedo, really helps you prepare better at tricky junctions and shit like that. Fiddling with it when moving is another matter tho...
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I accept that people use satnavs. I don't approve of them but I accept it. But I really don't see how operating them while driving is any better that texting or whatever else.
 
SpookyFrank said:
I accept that people use satnavs. I don't approve of them but I accept it. But I really don't see how operating them while driving is any better that texting or whatever else.
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Nothing is more dangerous than not knowing where you're going though, shifting lanes, taking turnings late etc
 
SpookyFrank said:
All the more reason to work out where you're going before you get in the car.
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Well even if you know where you're going, unless you are familiar with every turn then you're going to end up in wrong lane, miss turnings etc. You can't sit there before getting in car and plan a journey of more than a couple of miles knowing every detail, it's not possible. Clearly people bombing around in tons of fast metal alongside pedestrians and cyclists is daft and in future people will wonder what the fuck everybody was doing but in meantime I reckon satnav is probably a net benefit
 
Proper Tidy said:
Well even if you know where you're going, unless you are familiar with every turn then you're going to end up in wrong lane, miss turnings etc. You can't sit there before getting in car and plan a journey of more than a couple of miles knowing every detail, it's not possible. Clearly people bombing around in tons of fast metal alongside pedestrians and cyclists is daft and in future people will wonder what the fuck everybody was doing but in meantime I reckon satnav is probably a net benefit
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The time before satnav was famously one of nobody ever getting anywhere.
 
SpookyFrank said:
I accept that people use satnavs. I don't approve of them but I accept it. But I really don't see how operating them while driving is any better that texting or whatever else.
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Why don't you approve? Are we all supposed to be navigating our cars using sextants and paper charts?

Modern satnav systems are operated by voice rather that fingers anyway.
 
SpookyFrank said:
I accept that people use satnavs. I don't approve of them but I accept it. But I really don't see how operating them while driving is any better that texting or whatever else.
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It depends on the instance in question. Trying to program in a route and type words on a motorway is reckless and dangerous. Doing a single tap on a device screen that takes all of one second at low speed on an empty road is about as dangerous as blinking while driving.

And certainly no more dangerous than operating the controls of a car radio, which for 99% of the motorcar life span were not available on the wheel, so one had to both look away from the road and take one hand off the wheel to do. Indeed, hundreds of millions of older cars around the world still don’t have steering wheel controls. Do you think car radios are inherently dangerous as well?
 
Proper Tidy said:
Never driven a car with a posh integrated sat nav that tells you what lane to go in but that would be great tbf. I use a tomtom sometimes which beeps at you if you inadvertantly creep over limit which is dead handy
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My father could do with one of those, seems his years of being a typical BMW wanker have finally caught up with him, and TVP* has ordered him to take National Motorway Awareness and National Speed Awareness courses (or lose his licence, presumably), found the course booklets on the hall table. If you ever see a twat in a navy '08' reg BMW, driving like a wanker on the M40, M25, M4 or M1, it's probably him. I'm surprised he's never had a smash (and if he did, it wouldn't be his fault, nothing is ever his fucking fault).

I honestly don't know what fucking good these courses do - knowing my father, he'll simply treat it as a box-ticking exercise and his behaviour won't change in the slightest, because he can afford to keep paying for the courses (not that I've any idea how much they cost (any idea?), but he's very far from being skint). Like all BMW wankers, he has a real problem with middle-lane drivers, and believes speed limits don't apply to him. :mad:

They went down to Sherborne at the weekend (Thursday to Saturday), I wonder if he got pulled over on the M4…? I won't ever get in a car with him again. I fully expect him to have a heart attack behind the wheel sooner rather than later.

*Or WMP if he got done in Dorset.
 
Gaia said:
I honestly don't know what fucking good these courses do - knowing my father, he'll simply treat it as a box-ticking exercise and his behaviour won't change in the slightest, because he can afford to keep paying for the courses (not that I've any idea how much they cost (any idea?) ...
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About £100 a go but you only get offered a course under certain circumstances. Your speed has to be within certain parameters and you can't have done a similar course in the previous 3 years. IOtherwise he'll just get the points and a fine/ban.

Like all BMW wankers, he has a real problem with middle-lane drivers, and believes speed limits don't apply to him.
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He's right. Speed limits are for dog-fuckers and people who drive French cars.
 
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