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Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.

All your walks seem to revolve around cars, teuchter . Some people like to observe birds through binoculars, others prefer to take constant photographs of motor vehicles. Still, it's a free country. Whatever relaxes you of a weekend, I guess... :)
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
Must be some odd boxes you have to tick…

“This overpriced luxury SUV has a disappointing drivetrain, a rough and bumpy ride, and confounding controls. By the time our testing was complete, we came to the conclusion that the redesigned Evoque is the least talented luxury compact SUV, yet the most expensive”

2021 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Owner Satisfaction - Consumer Reports

Would owners buy the 2021 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque again? Find out from Consumer Report's Owner Satisfaction scores based on extensive survey data.
www.consumerreports.org www.consumerreports.org

Sounds great :thumbs:
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That site is the American equivalent of "Which?", but even worse.

Anyway the Range Rover Evoque I'm looking at has the same price as an equivalent Ford Kuga, so hardly "overpriced".
 
T & P said:
All your walks seem to revolve around cars, teuchter . Some people like to observe birds through binoculars, others prefer to take constant photographs of motor vehicles. Still, it's a free country. Whatever relaxes you of a weekend, I guess... :)
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Quite hard to take a walk in most parts of the UK without the devastating impact of car mania being in view for the majority of the time.

You think that's fine and are happy to continue wiping out any remaining pockets of undenuded environment because there's nothing more important of a weekend than getting to a drive-thru mcdonalds. Still, it's a free country.
 
Pffft. I don't do McDonalds, whether in London or the countryside. Countless countryside pubs with free car parks, though :thumbs:
 
That trip was in fact one outside London, where intersecting with the world of the car-people becomes inevitable. On new years day they didn't run any public transport, because why bother. Walked to a stately home, and this is what the car people have done to the grounds.

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I'd rather not have to look at this kind of thing, but at least I'm not one of the people who can't imagine an alternative to this kind of miserable world.
 
Spymaster said:
I was delivered a courtesy car today. Mercedes E300 Coupe. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to put it in gear (it turned out to be a stalk where you'd expect to find the indicators), but has a supremely useful gadget.

It's got a G-force meter!
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“0G, yep, I’m stuck in a jam again”
 
teuchter said:
That trip was in fact one outside London, where intersecting with the world of the car-people becomes inevitable. On new years day they didn't run any public transport, because why bother. Walked to a stately home, and this is what the car people have done to the grounds.
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next time try Goodwood, nice house with a racetrack. If going by car is really too much for you, train to Godalming, walk up the path behind the station, past the Supervet's place and bosh: Goodwood - Arriving By Air - Festival of Speed

See you down there :thumbs:
 
teuchter said:
That trip was in fact one outside London, where intersecting with the world of the car-people becomes inevitable. On new years day they didn't run any public transport, because why bother. Walked to a stately home, and this is what the car people have done to the grounds.

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I'd rather not have to look at this kind of thing, but at least I'm not one of the people who can't imagine an alternative to this kind of miserable world.
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They really ought to keep the riff-raff out and only allow access to people who live within walking distance.
 
Spymaster said:
I was delivered a courtesy car today. Mercedes E300 Coupe. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to put it in gear (it turned out to be a stalk where you'd expect to find the indicators), but has a supremely useful gadget.

It's got a G-force meter!
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Presumably it's a sticker, designed to look like an instrument gauge, that has an arrow permanently pointing downwards labelled "1G".

"Yes sir, and here's the G-Force meter"

There's one born every minute...

:D
 
Whenever car twats are talking about cars. You can get them on to the subject of parking costs. Just to subtely ruin their day. Plant seeds. oh isnt it unfair they'll think. That's annoying. Having to find a parking spot. It's so annoying.

And I just walk off. That shit don't bother me.
 
A few years ago (more like decades ago) I organised a safe driving event with RoSPA when I hired a contraption designed to show "G force" from the Jim Russell Racing Drivers school. Basically it was a large, shallow plastic bowl that you could attach to the car's bonnet. Put a ball in it and drive round a pre-set course too much acceleration, braking or cornering would have the ball jump out of the bowl (it was on a length of string)

There's nothing new. It's all been invented before :D
 
Spymaster said:
It's in the middle of the rev counter.

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Then there aren't even any units associated with it. It's literally doing nothing that you don't already know just by feeling the force yourself. Although it's actually a worse indicator than feeling the force, because you have to view a visual representation of the force and then translate that through a cognitive process to make sense of it. Worse than useless.

I know it's just whimsy, but dashboards are my thing. Admittedly, these are normally risk dashboards and financial dashboards. But the principles are the same -- make the knowledge intuitive and useful, and remove anything that distracts from the purpose of the dashboard. Understand what the user is doing and create something that assists that. Things like this G-Force meter are actively harmful to the purpose of the dashboard.
 
kabbes said:
Then there aren't even any units associated with it. It's literally doing nothing that you don't already know just by feeling the force yourself. Although it's actually a worse indicator than feeling the force, because you have to view a visual representation of the force and then translate that through a cognitive process to make sense of it. Worse than useless.

I know it's just whimsy, but dashboards are my thing. Admittedly, these are normally risk dashboards and financial dashboards. But the principles are the same -- make the knowledge intuitive and useful, and remove anything that distracts from the purpose of the dashboard. Understand what the user is doing and create something that assists that. Things like this G-Force meter are actively harmful to the purpose of the dashboard.
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I think there's an argument that you could use it for being considerate to passengers who suffer from motion sickness, because I think drivers tend to be less aware of the magnitude of forces they are inflicting, than passengers are (because the driver can anticipate and react to them - part of the reason why you can get travel sick as a passenger but not generally as a driver).

I would maybe not put the feedback in the dashboard display though - perhaps some kind of thumbscrew device instead.
 
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