Driving Standards
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
Safer driving could be coming. 
www.theguardian.com
Self-driving cars could be allowed on UK motorways next year
Industry welcomes consultation for use of technology in slow lane, but risk concerns some
Should be affordable to about 10% of people in around 15-20 yearsSafer driving could be coming.
Self-driving cars could be allowed on UK motorways next year
Industry welcomes consultation for use of technology in slow lane, but risk concerns some
BigTom
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Should be affordable to about 10% of people in around 15-20 years
This is just for tesla autopilot level stuff as far as I can see, automated driving that keeps it in lane / maintains speed/distance relative to other traffic in the lane.
This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. in London a lot of the time the main reason don't speed is because they can't due to weight of traffic. Once all that traffic was taken off the road quite a few just decided speed limits no longer applied. For some wankers (mainly in Golf's for some reason) lockdown roads were to be treated as a racetrack.
Yes. The "slow lane" according to The Guardian.
I wasn't aware that the speed limit is lower in that lane.Apparently they'll just slow down to the speed of the vehicle in front and maintain the distance so you'll have a line of bellends in robot cars all doing 50 behind a cement mixer.
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Its drivers who are the main cause of death on the roads.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Deceleration is the main cause of death on the roads.
SpookyFrank
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Drove from Weymouth to Godalming today in pissing rain all the way. Interesting to note that on the three lane sections of the M3 the inside lane is basically not used by anyone, plus no one seemed to adjust their speed cos of the lashing rain. All good stuff...
Tbf he has done a pretty good job of that if you follow him on twitter.
Hey, get out of my own private lane. I had assumed it was put aside just for me to use.
T & P
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In certain combinations of traffic density and flow on motorways, it is all but impossible (or at least, nothing less than absurd) to try to adhere to it, tbh...
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In my experience few people drive at a straight 70 on motorways. If you stuck at that on the inside lane, there are not many you could overtake while the majority of drivers would pass you. Besides, over 100 miles, the time saving between 65mph and 70 is just a few minutes. Are you really in that much of a hurry that you need to sit in the middle lane in the hope that you can maintain the national speed limit?
it intrigues me as to how empty the inside lane often is, what with people crowding into the overtaking lanes.
it intrigues me as to how empty the inside lane often is, what with people crowding into the overtaking lanes.
Cyclist, 15, left with fractured skull after east London hit-and-run
A teenage cyclist was left with a fractured skull after being knocked down by a hit-and-run driver in east London.
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Lincoln man spared jail after killing cycling RAF officer in crash
BMW driver didn't see the cyclist
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sleaterkinney
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He actually admitted death by careless driving and got a bit of community work and a one year driving ban.Lincoln man spared jail after killing cycling RAF officer in crash
BMW driver didn't see the cyclist
Disgustingly small punishment for what he did
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Death through careless driving often doesn't lead to prison, pitiful punishment, driving a car you have a duty to be careful or else you can kill, so when you fail to take care and you kill there should be a proper punishment for those actions, would encourage others to be more careful too.
Plus this one was on the phone at the time, via one of those Bluetooth jobs that dickhead estate agents and so on wear on their ears. They are legal, as are ones inbuilt to the car, but hugely distracting and really should be made illegal, as should in car music players that lift tunes off your phone which actively encourage you to read a screen as you scroll through playlists, that can not be done safely when the car is in motion.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It's been proven that hands free phone conversations are every bit as distracting and dangerous as holding the phone to your ear.
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