Drivers and their problems

mark1a wrote:

Does this establishment have a Michelin star?

Nah mate but we've got one of them Pirelli calendars if that helps? Bit cheeky but gives the gaff a kind of Continental feel, know what I mean?

I'll take the curry, but just wrap it in a chapati - I've gone tubless.

I've have far fewer blowouts since then - just the odd minor leak which stops within a minute...

David9694 wrote:

A yellow sticker on each windscreen would have been nice or a night's work for a tow truck even better. 

I just don't understand why all those cars haven't been ticketed

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Fury over bike rack by Bristol church that would 'block access for hearses'

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/fury-over-bike-rack-bris...

I actually agree with them moving the racks in this instance - Wine St has a lot more space.

As no one else has - wouldn't that make them wine racks?

David9694 wrote:

I wish they'd drop the C-bomb from this, it just risks Driver come-back "thanks to the sticker my six year old has learnt a new word".

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

I'm not a fan of people who complain that protests are not being performed correctly as they'll always find something else to complain about ("the glue is too sticky"). The important point is that if someone takes the effort to make a protest about your parking, then you need to think about why you're being anti-social.

David9694 wrote:

* fails after some thought to think of any pun connecting tyres and kebabs *

Just after a snack mate - one of those Snickers will do.  Oh no, they're Marathons again, I'll never get the wrapper off.

It makes a change for drivers to underestimate the size of their appendages...

One wonders how cars ever made it to Cambridge in the first place?  Presumably there's the equivalent note in some college archives with challenges like "you will be issued with a bustle.  Using your chosen motor vehicle (that our council now proposes making changes for) you must attend lectures at *both* parts of Queens college, without using Silver Street, disturbing the sleep of the Dean or damaging the Mathematical Bridge.  Your vehicle must be able to traverse Free School Lane and progress through town without startling any horses..."

Pretty sure like any change there will be some tasks / journeys which will be more expensive / less convenient.  Or at least less convenient if *everyone* continues to try to do them in the same way.  That is the point, surely?

The other part is to see if the benefits outweight the costs - e.g. maybe the children can now take themselves to some activities?  Since they mentioned "teenager" I'm assuming "old enough to handle weapons, old enough to get around town independently if safe infra was provided".  OTOH given this challenge I must also assume that some good folk of Cambridge would still assess the first as low-risk and the latter high.  Tragedy of the commons - have to drive our children due to the cars driving other children around...

Good earnings for those "recovery" drivers.

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"If your eyes are closed, the car will prompt you to put hands onto the steering wheel and take control… It will keep prompting the driver and if they don't respond, the car will steadily slow down to a stop," she said.

So it will allow you to continue with your eyes closed as long as your hands are on the steering wheel?

Actually technically students are only allowed to have a car in Cambridge with permission from the University Senior Proctor, which will only be considered if supported by the student's college. However even thirty-five years ago there seemed to be a blind eye policy and as far as I know it hasn't been toughened since. It's a bit like the requirement to spend three-fourths of each term in residence within three miles of Great St.Mary's, nobody checks up.

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"... if they don't respond, the car will steadily slow down to a stop," she said.

Erm - 'steadily slow down to a stop' while driving on the motorway (the only road it's able to use this 'self-driving' tech on)? 

brooksby wrote:

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"... if they don't respond, the car will steadily slow down to a stop," she said.

Erm - 'steadily slow down to a stop' while driving on the motorway (the only road it's able to use this 'self-driving' tech on)? 

But it's ok as, if that car is rear ended, Ford can they say that the accident wouldn't have happened if the other car also had Ford's self-driving technology.

The only way to solve the dangers of their system is for every vehicle to have it. In much the same way as the only way to stop mass shootings in the USA is more guns

Jogle wrote:

But it's ok as, if that car is rear ended, Ford can they say that the accident wouldn't have happened if the other car also had Ford's self-driving technology. The only way to solve the dangers of their system is for every vehicle to have it. In much the same way as the only way to stop mass shootings in the USA is more guns

Correct - you can see this as either an arms race ("I have to drive my kids to school as everyone else does, it's not safe to walk / cycle") or a self-reinforcing strategy.

This one used to be a wing mirror graveyard. Once saw a wedged 4x4 being recovered by a tow truck: https://goo.gl/maps/8UPukHVUhEUYpMZ68

PS: threading doesn't seem to work for me on this thread at all, which makes it quite a challenge to follow. Is it just me (I also get it on other long threads like Pictures of Your Bike)?  

I think you mean, "when did Eryri become Snowdonia?"

I like the way the foliage covers the width restriction sign !

Hirsute wrote:

(wnen did snowdonia become Eryri ?)

It always was. That's its name.

According to Wikipedia, "The term Eryri first appeared in a manuscript in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, in an account of the downfall of the semi-legendary 5th-century king Gwrtheyrn (Vortigern)."

The use of Eryri (for Snowdonia) and Wyddfa (for the Snowdon peak) has become more widespread in recent years and last year Snowdonia National Park Authority voted to use Yr Wyddfa and Eryri rather than Snowdon and Snowdonia:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63649930

Meanwhile in Plympton Road, NW6:

https://twitter.com/profKayW/status/1644011248097304576