Driving Standards

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Audi drivers; speaks for itself really.

They have a fucking nerve doing us tbf, I think they only did it so they could send us a picture of our lovely looking motor.

 

[hash tag]

Spot the stand out car..ZZzzzzz

 

[Proper Tidy]

The Mazda 6

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Mazda 6

The Renault is definitely the fugliest, but I'm sure it makes up for it by also being the worst.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Luckily the authorities have always shown common sense in that department, despite not officially admitting to it. You’d be very unlucky indeed to ever be flashed let alone prosecuted for doing up to 35-37 on a 30.

Not as unlucky as the person you crash into and kill while cunting about at near 40 in a 30 zone.

None of this 10+2 stuff is relevant if you know how to drive properly. The speed limits are up on big signs, you don't have to do any maths to figure them out.

 

[not-bono-ever]

i have been done at 37 in a 30 zone at 4AM in the north circular area. 3 points. my problem not theirs.

 

[a_chap]

I was once stopped by a police car (that I was trying to get away from) in Leeds late one night. I was doing 50+mph in a 30 zone and I never got a ticket.

But then there was quite an amusing story surrounding the circumstances

If I had more time I'd go into detail but I'm cooking Sunday dinner right now, sorry.

 

[BigTom]

Incidentally, any posters who have in the past advocated severe punishments including automatic bans for anyone breaking the 20 mph limit in a 20 mph zone should realise that going 4-5 mph over 20 is far easier than 4-5 mph over 30.

So until we’ve reached the day when autonomous driving or intelligent speed limiters that automatically adjust are compulsory on all vehicles, calling for zero tolerance policing of 20 mph and punishing someone clocked doing 25 mph on a 20 zone is as draconian as is unworkable. I’d gladly bet all my possessions on just about every single driver who says they religiously observe the 20 mph limit to accidentally exceed it by no less than 4-5 mph regularly, if not on every single journey they undertake.

If you think a drift of 4-5mph is a natural and acceptable variance, and you know that going over 20mph in a 20mph zone will get you a fine (or worse), then you will set your baseline speed at 15mph and drift between 15mph and 20mph, rather than between 20 and 25. It's a simple, workable solution to the issue of natural speed variance and the need to be paying more attention to the road around you than your speedo.

That attitude that the posted speed limit is the speed you should be driving at is the problem here, rather than there being something that makes tight enforcement of speed limits unfair to be enforced.

 

[T & P]

Not as unlucky as the person you crash into and kill while cunting about at near 40 in a 30 zone.

None of this 10+2 stuff is relevant if you know how to drive properly. The speed limits are up on big signs, you don't have to do any maths to figure them out.

Of course. And imo all drivers should be experienced enough to never accidentally exceed a 30 mph by as much as 8-9 mph, certainly in their own cars or a rental car that is not absurdly powerful.

But momentarily exceeding a 30 mph by, say, 3 mph is not that difficult even if one is being cautious, so prosecuting drivers for doing 33 on a 30 is utterly absurd and might do more harm than good in the long term. From both the increased pollution from people driving in a far less efficient 3rd gear instead of 4th because they are so concerned about exceeding the limit even by the slightest margin, and from those checking their speedometer needle constantly just in case, god fucking forbid, they press the accelerator slightly at 25 mph and it propels them to 32 mph for a few moments.

 

[hash tag]

I wasn't speeding honest! A very difficult one to prove I suspect Man spends £30,000 fighting £100 speeding fine

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I wasn't speeding honest! A very difficult one to prove I suspect Man spends £30,000 fighting £100 speeding fine

Retired engineer Mr Keedwell, of Yate in Gloucestershire, claimed he "was certainly not doing more than 30mph" in New Road in November 2016.

He said: "I was very surprised when a couple of days later I got the NIP [Notice of Intended Prosecution].

"I really could not believe that I had been speeding. It made a simple day out turn very sour actually."

No shit!

I regret the amount of money. I very simply wanted justice.

Mug.

 

[Teaboy]

A toxic mix of righteous indignation and too much time on his hands. What a knob.

 

[hash tag]

Honest John was littered with letters like this years ago. Lots of finger wagging from retired colonels and people who wear
driving gloves with knots in them. Ive been driving for 45 years without a single driving offence ever and now, out of the blue
I get a speeding ticket for 44 MPH in a 40 limit; how is this possible?

 

[Crispy]

My ticket was for 36 in a 30 (roadside camera in cardiff). The Gear*10mph advice at the course was the most helpful thing I took from it. The mpg indicator in my car (small 2009 petrol engine) maxes out at 60 when I'm doing 30mph in 3rd or 4th, so I don't see the pollution argument there.

Oh and I notice that google maps now has a mph indicator, which in my car is reliably 2mph faster than the speedo.

 

[T & P]

As we currently don't have a cycling standards-style thread running, I thought I would leave this here. Road user vs. pedestrian in urban environment, so relevant to the general theme of behaviour on the roads.



Cyclist headbutts pedestrian who told him off for jumping red light | Metro News

I hope the catch the cunt soon enough...

 

[sleaterkinney]

Meanwhile, from drivers:

A KITTEN was thrown from a moving car on a busy dual carriageway before being hit by several vehicles.

'Horrified' police hunt man who threw kitten from moving car on A64

 

[Saul Goodman]

Meanwhile, from drivers:

A KITTEN was thrown from a moving car on a busy dual carriageway before being hit by several vehicles.

'Horrified' police hunt man who threw kitten from moving car on A64

Anyone who could do that deserves a proper kicking... but cats are renowned for climbing up into the engine bay of a vehicle with a warm engine. It's happened to me twice. It's also happened to both my mother and father (who have a few cats) a few times. I'd suspect this was more likely the case than someone throwing a kitten out of the window on the motorway.

 

[Looby]

This happened near me where people drive like absolute bellends.

The road is 20 mph and is used as a rat run.

Apparently the driver wasn’t speeding and was blinded by the sun. Hmmm

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Blinded by their own magnificence if driving an Audi

 

[hash tag]

To be expected from n Audi driver. Anyone who buys an Audi is generally blind.

 

[fishfinger]

Elite parking skills

 

[hash tag]

Bloody Audi drivers, think they own the roads and can drive wherever and however they like.

 

[rubbershoes]

Looks like an A3. The worst Audi drivers IMO

 

[Looby]

It was an A3. Someone across the road has the same car, I’m waiting to see if the car is there later as I suspect they might be the culprits.

 

[not-bono-ever]

The black wall tunnel to M11 un is like something out of GTA late at night over the weekends - rarely have I seen so many narsty overpolished krautboxes weaving through the traffic at a ton. What kind of wanker buys a German car ?

 

[dervish]

How did that audi actually physically manage that? Unless it's the sort of bollards that sneak up on unwary drivers from underneath???

Even at speed that is pretty special.

 

[hash tag]

Audi drivers are pretty special.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

What kind of wanker buys a German car ?

Recommend a fastish estate

ii ned new wheels / estate when i get back from an overseas trip - thinking about a mondy or a BMW 520/40

It's a mystery, inn't.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Lolz. It’s a fair cop guv

 

[hash tag]

It was an A3. Someone across the road has the same car, I’m waiting to see if the car is there later as I suspect they might be the culprits.

Was it a local?