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Near Miss of the Day 296: Poor driving in electric car

Our regular series featuring near misses from the UK and beyond - today it's Norway...
by Simon_MacMichael
Mon, Aug 12, 2019 17:03
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Today’s video in our Near Miss of the Day series comes from Norway and shows the driver of an electric car pretty much all over the road as they try – unsuccessfully – to get in front of a cyclist.

It was filmed in Stavanger by road.cc reader Stuart, who lives there. He told us: “Heading downhill sitting pretty much on the 30km/h limit and a Zoe (I hate electric cars sneaking up on me too) decides she wants to try to pass, over the speed humps, with an oncoming cyclist, heading into the right hand bend where 90+ per cent of all traffic on 2 and 4 wheels makes a left turn (including me).

”Pretty sure her left rear tyre mounts the opposite kerb too taking the junction totally on the wrong side,” he added.

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Over the years road.cc has reported on literally hundreds of close passes and near misses involving badly driven vehicles from every corner of the country – so many, in fact, that we’ve decided to turn the phenomenon into a regular feature on the site. One day hopefully we will run out of close passes and near misses to report on, but until that happy day arrives, Near Miss of the Day will keep rolling on.

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Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Mungecrundle replied to burtthebike | 5 years ago
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burtthebike wrote:

Rick_Rude wrote:

Electric cars suck. They do actually sneak up on you. I was out thinking I had nothing behind and there was one of those mini BMW things up my arse. Apart from that i don't how they make any economic sense at their current price point and with nonsense like battery rental at £70 a month. I don't even spend £70 on petrol a month.

And neither do they save the planet, having a lifetime CO2 footprint between 80-109% of an ICE car.  But there is some great marketing out there, persuading the gullible that they are so, so green.  They don't do anything for congestion, tyre and brake dust, danger, or anything much apart from local pollution from exhaust gases.

If you only look at lifetime CO2 by assuming a worst case scenario for electricity generation, no recycling of batteries at the end of their life and ignore the environmental cost of extracting oil from the ground, refining it and transporting it to a fuel station before even putting it through your ICE.

Brake dust? Most electric vehicles make use of regenerative braking, so much less.

Reduction in local pollution? As in: Nitrous oxides, PM10 and smaller, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and other exhaust gasses? That is hardly of trivial benefit considering the estimated 50,000 early deaths a year in the UK attributed to local air quality and the millions of people exposed to a lifetime of air pollution.

Tyre and road wear, congestion and drivers not killing other road users require different solutions. Those I will concede.

Maybe it is you being suckered in by the climate change deniers and their corporate sponsors.

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burtthebike replied to Mungecrundle | 5 years ago
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Mungecrundle wrote:
burtthebike wrote:

Rick_Rude wrote:

Electric cars suck. They do actually sneak up on you. I was out thinking I had nothing behind and there was one of those mini BMW things up my arse. Apart from that i don't how they make any economic sense at their current price point and with nonsense like battery rental at £70 a month. I don't even spend £70 on petrol a month.

And neither do they save the planet, having a lifetime CO2 footprint between 80-109% of an ICE car.  But there is some great marketing out there, persuading the gullible that they are so, so green.  They don't do anything for congestion, tyre and brake dust, danger, or anything much apart from local pollution from exhaust gases.

If you only look at lifetime CO2 by assuming a worst case scenario for electricity generation, no recycling of batteries at the end of their life and ignore the environmental cost of extracting oil from the ground, refining it and transporting it to a fuel station before even putting it through your ICE.

Which bit of "lifetime" did you misunderstand?

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Sriracha replied to Rick_Rude | 5 years ago
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Rick_Rude wrote:

Electric cars suck. They do actually sneak up on you. I was out thinking I had nothing behind and there was one of those mini BMW things up my arse.

Apart from that i don't how they make any economic sense at their current price point and with nonsense like battery rental at £70 a month. I don't even spend £70 on petrol a month.

I'm sure pedestrians sometimes feel the same about bikes which silently materialise in some situations.

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