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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- brooksby 4 min 23 sec ago
I withdraw my question (and intend to re-read articles before posting in future…) <sound of wrist being slapped>
- Rendel Harris 13 min 18 sec ago
I guess everyone's experience is different, I'm currently using a cheap pair of Rockbros photochromics for commuting that are completely clear in...
- Destroyer666 6 sec ago
No, clearly the article cannot be reduced to that - as it clearly states in the title it claims for the need for western bike wheel companies to ...
- chrisonabike 16 min 56 sec ago
A good answer, but that doesn't stop the question - how did it come to be so? (Yes - "it got that way because that's what happened"...)....
- hawkinspeter 43 min ago
I had a pair of Fulcrum wheels that came with my Genesis bike, but shortly after buying it, a rear wheel spoke broke. Turned out that they used...
- mark1a 48 min 12 sec ago
No doubt harder. A work colleague of mine does the Dorset Coast 200 every month, and has just completed 10 years of consecutive RRTY. The only...
- mark1a 53 min 22 sec ago
No and it's quite likely it's the parents driving, but every other post here from mitsky is critical of other content describing "cars" doing this...
- chrisonabike 58 min 5 sec ago
Looks like a lot of folks who might favour Reform in the comments......
- Keesvant 1 hour 20 min ago
You are axactly right.. I can buy 1 new tyre for my ford focus , If i buy 2 bicycle tyres.. We are being scammed allday, every day..!
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The Sun had an article today where the residents and shopkeepers of Camborne were blaming the decline in footfall in their town and subsequent closure of many shops, on the council introducing a minimum £1 (for up to an hour) parking charge for on-street parking.
Last time I went to Romford....thankfully five years ago, the place is a dump, I needed a massive 4x4 to get around given how bad the roads are etc... /s
This person is a joke. Her reasons for not getting a car which fits the regulations.... she can't be bothered.
So its okay for you to damage the lungs of the young as you can't be bothered. I say make the charge £100 a day for such people.
Who needs a driveway when there's a perfectly good pavement to park on?
wait - what?
"The car's windscreen was significantly damaged in the crash" - how was the cyclist able to do that and "pedal away"? (I presume it wouldn't have been called a "crash" if the cyclist smashed the windscreen with a pump, for example)
So, she enters into a contract with the company and straight away breaches the terms of that contract by: ""On two occasions I parked up and straight away made calls to make sure my uncle’s carers had arrived. I didn’t realise there was a five-minute rule when I was paying to park all day."
it boils my er, liquid when people think that they can part anywhere for free: this is what this lady was trying to do for the five minutes free parking she tried to steak.
We have a local sports club which is right by the railway station. People park there for free rather than pay the £12 for the station carpark. When they tried to charge £3 to park, the parking attendents were both phyically and verbally attacked. They gave it up as a bad job.
I really dislike people who want something for nothing.
The principal points of their proposal:
I mean!! The b@stards!!
My apologies. The link was posted to Hacker News and I didn't find a better source for the info (was also in The Sun and The Daily Heil).
An interesting point is what happens with ICE cars that have electronic handbrakes and have a battery failure? There really should be a manual override in case the vehicle is blocking a hospital or fire station or other important access.
Another question that comes to mind is why the brake should be applied due to lack of power. Usually, electronic handbrakes require power to either engage or disengage it and so a battery failure would leave it in the same state, but I don't believe that the driver would engage the handbrake during a turn.
My dog won't settle since the bollards. If she's allowed near the front windows, she barks and whines til my husband pulls her away. She won't walk past the bollards either.
EDIT This is a made-up comment in the spirit of the That's Life take-off: " so we rang the gas board - they told us 'I'm sorry - this really has got nothing to do with us' "
Further comments always welcome!!
EDIT EDIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2QZprRgxDc
(it was the electricity board)
The Bath parking charges?
oh, very well played
"I've voted Conservative all my life and so has my husband and all this rampant development all over city is the result. We used to love to go for a nice quiet drive on a Sunday, but it's so busy everywhere these days."
Simon Randall used to make up rhymes about Miss Parse, who taught English and Geography - half the IVth form were crying themselves to sleep over her. I only remember fragments:
Miss Parse is blooming in Geography (Roses are shining in Picardie)
Miss Parse, Miss Parse
How I wish I was in your class
Miss Parse, my heart turns to glass
You never hear traders say "so many people around here spending their last few £££s running a car they can't really afford - if only they took the £2 bus, they would have more to spend with us here".
How the Camborne traders will miss the people moaning in a national "newspaper" about paying a couple of quid to park a car.
And with all that medical stuff going on,she's A-OK to drive her massive panzer.
If only there was some mechanism that would allow her to realise its economic value in favour of something more suitable.
Standard driver "I was only...", "I was just...", "I've done nothing wrong", " it's a money making scam" etc
A failsafe system?
Running out of power when parked on a hill?
Similar I guess to the application of brakes when there is a loss of pressure on artic trailers and train carriages.
But the Tesla incident is just amusing, because it probably delayed emergency vehicles and prevented people getting to vital hospital appointments and funerals shouldn't we just ban the things...
Yep. Sorry I could have been clearer in my reply.
And thanks for taking the time to post these links. (add thumbs up icon here).
Supposedly, the handbrake should be run off a separate 12v battery, so there's some strange failure that took out main power and that system too. It's a strange failsafe as the main brakes are hydraulic, so even without power on a hill, you can have the driver keep the car still while someone puts bricks under the wheels to act as a handbrake.
Ah, the long-since broken RCC threading. And thank-you.
Curious isn't it, over the past few years central funding to local authorities has been decimated and meaningful parking charges are one of the results - from the "on the side of the motorist" Tories, no less.
I think the idea here is right, but we'll soon be into " this tariff 'confuses drivers' " territory. I'd always say keep it (brutally) simple, with little or no scope for drivers, in the hope of saving themselves a few pence, to argue the toss.
I don't see how traders are so worried about (and councils bending over backwards to accommodate) the loss of a few shoppers who are running some old rustheap and are seriously blanching at paying a few quid to park it.
I was thinking more power drain when left, there must be some.
Or proper ejit territory, letting the main battery run down, but still putting the heatin/AC on before getting backnto the car.
Is it 5 minutes free parking? If the charge is £4 for "all day", then whether I pay that one minute, ten minutes or even two hours after entering the car park, the same payment is made.
If someone is paying for one hour and pays 10 minutes after entering the car park, then arguably they have gained free minutes, but all day is all day
Its £4 for 12 hours, not all day. There is a higher charge for all day (in other words, 24 hour) parking.
Hence my point.
Have you found the tariff for this location somewhere, Essex?
This parking company has made quite a name for itself:
https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/excel-parking-new-firm-taking-over-at...
https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/excel-parking-businesses-claim-firm-i...
Great that our motorist friendly GOVErnment is taking an interest in the doings of the private parking industry (articles linked in the Sheffield widow story) - that would be the same industry that the DVLC are all too willing to hand over information to.
I can recall issues with the clampers in the mid 1990s clamping cars parked in the town centre delivery bays (only for a minute, no doubt to drop stuff off to a charity shop) - so a long-running issue.
I'd still say that drivers have brought this stuff on themselves. I guess the affront is that this is an environment where rules is rules - unlike the wider state system, which bends over backwards to go easy on them.
From the name of the car park given in the article, I believe this might be the one:
https://ecpparkbuddy.com/locationDetail/?id=4403
A horse on a bus.... that's nothing, in the Good Old US of A, they go one bigger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIR3NU3P_bU
Shame, especially as this resident has so carefully removed all greenery from the front of their house to create such a lovely 'carden'
The white circle with a diagonal black slash sign which currently means "national speed limit applies" originally meant "Deristricted" and applied to many normal roads as well as motorways.
That happens a lot on Police Interceptor Motorway Traffic Cops - the police will stop someone for having no insurance, and then actually give them maybe ten minutes to sort it out... Which has always seemed weird, since it doesn't solve things retrospectively AFAIK.
That looks like a series 2 disco, they stopped making them in 2003! I suspect the model year is 2002, not 2022 as quoted in the news article!
This is exactly the sort of vehicle that should not be used for short, single occupancy, journeys in a built up area. The entitlement of these people who think they are somehow a special case.
Is there any requirement for the cyclist to have remained at the scene? The normal legislation for "hit and run" offences is S170 of the RTA which only applies to the drivers of mechanically propelled vehicles.
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