Driving Standards

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's difficult enough to enforce the current laws on mobile phones in cars, how on earth this would be policed?
Hands-free phone driving ban 'should be looked at'

It is very distracting. Many cars now have this built in, so it would be hard to tell if someone is talking on the phone or just talking to a passenger, singing to themselves, simply deranged.

 

[dervish]

I'll be fucked if they ban singing in the car.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I'll be fucked if they ban singing in the car.

Take up yodelling

 

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If you need to play music in the car, I think people would advise something like Satie


as opposed to something a little heavier

 

[cupid_stunt]

Any loud music in cars...

 

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Spymaster the question is where to put a story like this these days? Cyclist blames driver after crash while performing wheelie

 

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vid linky Man Doing Wheelie Down Busy Road Crashes Into Mercedes, Then Blames The Driver

 

[cupid_stunt]

Fucking twat cyclist.

 

[marty21]

It is very distracting. Many cars now have this built in, so it would be hard to tell if someone is talking on the phone or just talking to a passenger, singing to themselves, simply deranged.

Their phone would reveal the times they were actually on the phone rather than singing or being deranged

 

[T & P]

Spymaster the question is where to put a story like this these days? Cyclist blames driver after crash while performing wheelie

Well the 'what have people got against cyclists' thread got closed as it'd become rather vicious and flamebaity, but we could try again with a new thread titled 'cycling standards' mimicking the existing one about drivers.

 

[T & P]

It is very distracting. Many cars now have this built in, so it would be hard to tell if someone is talking on the phone or just talking to a passenger, singing to themselves, simply deranged.

I kind of fall into the last category, though I would hasten to add that rather than being deranged or think I have imaginary friends travelling with me, I sometimes 'think aloud' and speak out a hypothetical conversation that I am playing out in my mind. Not at any length of time but just a sentence or two and no more than a few seconds, but all the same it might look like I'm either nuts or on the phone to an outsider who spots me doing it.

 

[Proper Tidy]

'Big oaf' road rage driver revealed after clip shows him brand rival ' scum'

'Big oaf' road rage driver revealed after clip shows him brand rival ' scum'

 

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He didn't like his clip shown on line because it has made him look a knob...he should have thought about that before hand.
BTW I find progress is quicker if I give way and signal I'm doing so quite early on

 

[Dogsauce]

Laughing at the ‘runs his own business’. It’s basically the gammon war cry, never heard anyone proclaim those words publicly that wasn’t a prize bellend. Notably popular with some of the lesser Tory MPs, as though spunking your dad’s money on a failed business venture elevates you to a higher level of person than someone who just goes out and does a useful job every day.

 

[Poi E]

Never understand those in a smaller vehicle that argue with a larger one. Physics, man...

 

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Chips on shoulder; inferiority complex.

 

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Please tell me that neither you or Fraue Strasse were not involved Bahnhof Strasse Man, 25, fights for life after 'high-speed' sports car crash wrecks six vehicles

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Please tell me that neither you or Fraue Strasse were not involved Bahnhof Strasse Man, 25, fights for life after 'high-speed' sports car crash wrecks six vehicles

Looks like a very nasty pile up. Sounds like two cars were racing, down a sodding high street ffs.

Also 25 years old in such a powerful car; how does a 25 year old afford it, most 25 year olds will not have the experience to handle a >300bhp motor.

Hope he pulls through.

 

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People tend not to buy cars anymore more, they tend to lease them these days which makes things somewhat easier.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

People tend not to buy cars anymore more, they tend to lease them these days which makes things somewhat easier.

I know next to nothing about leasing, have always bought cars outright as have been scared to get a loan on something that can break down, crash etc. Is it any good?

 

[Proper Tidy]

I know next to nothing about leasing, have always bought cars outright as have been scared to get a loan on something that can break down, crash etc. Is it any good?

Leasing can mean straight lease (contract hire) - you pay the depreciation plus interest, give it back at end. Expensive cos you're paying the depreciation at the steepest point plus interest but hassle free so if you've got money and fancy a new car every two or three years then can see attraction.

Or it can mean PCP, which is a bag of shit imo but how loads of youngsters get nice cars. PCP is really a mix of lease and HP. You pay what is basically a lease at beginning which is artificially low so affordable. At end of lease period you have a balloon payment, theory being the car will be worth more so you can either hand it back and take any equity you have in car, or pay balloon and keep car. Except often the balloon is more than the value of the car, either because it's been knocked about or has more miles than agreed milage, or just because it's not held its value. So then you have to pay a chunk just to be able to hand it back over, or pay the whole balloon to own the car even though the car isn't worth that much. Or you can try and sell it yourself for more than the finance house says it's worth and pay the balloon that way, but then you've just leased a car for three or four years with extra hassle at end. Anyway it's this combined with not very strict credit underwriting that has led to loads of youngsters with nice shiny new cars

 

[Proper Tidy]

Anyway there are less shit cars on road these days cos jumped up kids are driving Golfs and Merc A Class on 18 and 19 plates, cutting me up in my shit heap cos they're spending 40% of their net income each month on a fucking car the little pricks

 

[blairsh]

Anyway there are less shit cars on road these days cos jumped up kids are driving Golfs and Merc A Class on 18 and 19 plates, cutting me up in my shit heap cos they're spending 40% of their net income each month on a fucking car the little pricks

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

So basically, for once in my life, my buying cars that I can afford outright has been a shrewd financial move?

 

[Proper Tidy]

So basically, for once in my life, my buying cars that I can afford outright has been a shrewd financial move?

Yeah. Well as shrewd as taking a brand new car off the forecourt can ever get anyway

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Yeah. Well as shrewd as taking a brand new car off the forecourt can ever get anyway

I've never bought a brand new car. I am neither a lottery winner nor totally fucking mental.

 

[Spymaster]

I can't think of a single sensible reason why anyone would privately buy a brand new car.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I can't think of a single sensible reason why anyone would privately buy a brand new car.

Only this:



70,000,000 to 1 though. So fails on the sensible bit.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Anyway there are less shit cars on road these days cos jumped up kids are driving Golfs and Merc A Class on 18 and 19 plates, cutting me up in my shit heap cos they're spending 40% of their net income each month on a fucking car the little pricks

Your eyes are a lovely shade of green