Driving Standards

[SpookyFrank]

Not really driving standards but...is it even possible to buy a new car that doesn't have a fucking video screen in the middle of the dashboard?

Not that I can afford a new car but still.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Everyone knows that people who drive BMW's are good drivers

A1(M): Driver caught at 130mph in fog with children in car

The man tells police he thinks his speed is acceptable as he is "a good driver".

www.bbc.co.uk

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Call social services I reckon.

 

[Teaboy]

Not really driving standards but...is it even possible to buy a new car that doesn't have a fucking video screen in the middle of the dashboard?

Not that I can afford a new car but still.

I get where you're coming from but they're ubiquitous now. Then again they do add some very useful functions. The rear view parking camera is useful and radios have been in cars forever no so its just transferring the info from a tiny screen to a bigger screen. Also the whole sat nav thing, is it any more distracting to look at a screen then it is to look at your phone in a cradle?

I'm yet to understand why a car needs wifi. Useful if you're renting a car in a foreign country I suppose.

 

[hash tag]

Not really driving standards but...is it even possible to buy a new car that doesn't have a fucking video screen in the middle of the dashboard?

Not that I can afford a new car but still.

I get where you're coming from but they're ubiquitous now. Then again they do add some very useful functions. The rear view parking camera is useful and radios have been in cars forever no so its just transferring the info from a tiny screen to a bigger screen. Also the whole sat nav thing, is it any more distracting to look at a screen then it is to look at your phone in a cradle?

I'm yet to understand why a car needs wifi. Useful if you're renting a car in a foreign country I suppose.

I've said it before, the screens should be inoperable if the vehicle is in motion.
There are so many different variations.
I know of a Fiat where you can do everything at any speed except link your phone to it when moving.
The Mazda screen becomes inoperable above 4 MPH, but still has many other controls you can use, including setting a new
address in the sat nav!
A year old VW I know, you can do anything at any speed on the infotainment screen.
I have seen a Merc with "dual images". From the drivers side of the screen you see one thing, from the passenger side you
can see/watch something totally different, including films!
Time to call time on this.

 

[Spymaster]

I'm yet to understand why a car needs wifi. Useful if you're renting a car in a foreign country I suppose.

Mine's got an ejector seat type covered button. If you press it, it calls the emergency services, gives them your exact location, and opens a phone line to them. I find it really difficult not to press it just to see if it works.

 

[Spymaster]

I've said it before, the screens should be inoperable if the vehicle is in motion.

The TV function should be, and is on most cars that I'm aware of. Otherwise if it's the radio or temperature controls your looking at it makes no difference if they're on a central screen or several smaller ones dotted about the car.

 

[Spymaster]

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[T & P]

Not really driving standards but...is it even possible to buy a new car that doesn't have a fucking video screen in the middle of the dashboard?

Not that I can afford a new car but still.

The few cars that have a digital screen that can be used to broadcast 'entertainment' are designed so the images on the screen are invisible from the driver's seat- at least when it is showing video/ TV/ films. Or as Spymaster said, they do not work when the car is rolling.

 

[hash tag]

Sliding in the snow is one thing.

 

[hash tag]

In Leicester a few days ago

Impatient driver smashes through gap between two cars in Leicester, UK

 

[sleaterkinney]

Serves about six moths for each life?. Already had been disqualified.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Serves about six moths for each life?. Already had been disqualified.

I will never understand why it's not manslaughter if you're driving a car.

Nor why someone who kills people and then flees the scene ever needs to be allowed to drive again. Is it even possible to get a lifetime ban from driving?

 

[sleaterkinney]

I will never understand why it's not manslaughter if you're driving a car.

There is a more serious charge of death by dangerous driving, but the cps probably didn't think that speeding through a red light would get past a jury as being dangerous.

 

[mauvais]

 

[Saul Goodman]

I will never understand

We know...

 

[hash tag]

A "totter"? New one on me. Two hits in one journey? Some people...sigh. Susannah Constantine ‘about to lose driving licence’ after speeding offences

 

[T & P]

A "totter"? New one on me. Two hits in one journey? Some people...sigh. Susannah Constantine ‘about to lose driving licence’ after speeding offences

I absolutely call bullshit on one of the fines being issued for being just 2 mph over the limit.

Unless the DVLA has some kind of policy in place whereby people who keep racking up points get a zero-tolerance approach to further breaches.

 

[mauvais]

It does not.

 

[hash tag]

She might of course be exaggerating with just 2 mph over the limit. It's not like no one has ever said that before.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Twat in a criminally liable shirt said...


“I got two in one journey going down to Cornwall on the A303 and I was only like two miles an hour on one stretch and four miles an hour over on another.”

Asked how she managed to beat the traffic, she said: “I went very early in the morning. I left at four o’clock in the morning. I got cameraed. That sinking feeling when the flash goes off.”

Clearly the sinking feeling didn’t last long enough to stop her blatting it through another speed camera a few minutes later

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

She’s a triple cunt as I once done Barnstable to Walton-on-Thames in two hours twenty minutes using the 303 and didn’t get flashed once...

 

[T & P]

I thought perhaps it’d been a mobile unit, whether a police car/van or a handheld speed gun, but there’s just no way a fixed roadside camera would be set to trigger at 2 mph over. Perhaps an urban location with a 20 mph limit. But on an A road with a much higher speed limit? Utter bollocks.

 

[hash tag]

To get points once is careless, perhaps. Twice is stupid after that, wreckless, madness or whatever. 3 or more tickets in a shortish space of time and you deserve to lose your licence.

 

[BigTom]

I thought perhaps it’d been a mobile unit, whether a police car/van or a handheld speed gun, but there’s just no way a fixed roadside camera would be set to trigger at 2 mph over. Perhaps an urban location with a 20 mph limit. But on an A road with a much higher speed limit? Utter bollocks.

most likely she means she was 2mph over the 10%+2mph (?) leeway that is (usually/supposedly) given beyond the actual speed limit.
or she's just straight up lying.

 

[platinumsage]

It’s a well-known fact that everyone who complains about receiving a speeding ticket misremembers the actual speed they were doing.

 

[Spymaster]

It’s a well-known fact that everyone who complains about receiving a speeding ticket misremembers the actual speed they were doing.

Well they tell you what your speed was. It’s on the ticket you receive in the post.

it’s not impossible that she was doing the speeds she says. The 10+2 tolerance isn’t mandatory, it’s at the discretion of the police and some forces do reduce or remove it if they’re having a crack down. I’ve had a 54 in a 50 limit off a mobile unit in Cambridge.

 

[mauvais]

I want to see some paperwork!

 

[Spymaster]

Also, on a speed awareness course everyone in the room was told to hold up their hands and put them down when the instructor said the speed they were doing over the limit. He then counted down from 10. Most hands went down pretty quickly but there were a few at 3 and 4 so it does happen. This was before widespread use of the 20 limit.

 

[hash tag]

1 MPH over the limit is breaking the law!
The thing that I used to see a lot was I am a law abiding citizen Etc. never done anything wrong in my life and
Ive now got my first ticket......what it really means is you have never been caught before.

 

[mauvais]

Also, on a speed awareness course everyone in the room was told to hold up their hands and put them down when the instructor said the speed they were doing over the limit. He then counted down from 10. Most hands went down pretty quickly but there were a few at 3 and 4 so it does happen. This was before widespread use of the 20 limit.

People have been banging on about how they were done for a mere 1mph over since the invention of the sun, but I've never seen any of them prove it, including in the more obvious places like a Pistonheads argument. I know that some forces don't or didn't comply with the ACPO guidelines, Brunstrom was infamous for it in Wales years ago, but almost all of them do.

I think what's more likely is even after being done for it and told as much, people still don't know what the speed limit was, so get in a flap about being done for 41mph... in a 30.