I view it as a long game, a very long game based on simple sustainability.
Cars will inevitably cease to be the default mode of transport for the dribbling masses eventually, switch em' to the lectrickery, make them driverless, sooner or later the dwindling resources to make and fuel the bastard things and the resounding lack of joy in sitting in such shite boxes will be enough to marginalise persistent users.
Thats when those with (currently) "alternative" tastes in road transport will be able to laud it over the clarksonites...
Until then just smile, nod and post pictures of Audis parked in houses...
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please odnt post pics of my car and house
As it happens, roads were NOT actually built for cars...
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/23/roads-were-not-built-for-cars-carlton-reid-review ]Roads were not built for cars[/url]
MP Sir Ernest Soares told parliament in 1903: “Motorists are in the position of statutary trespassers on the road … roads were never made for motor-cars. Those who designed them and laid them out never thought of motor-cars.”
and to be honest, we'd all be a whole lot better off if we all drove a lot less...
Ironically enough I passed a horse and trap this morning. The handler was on foot, getting it turned around at the side of the road, leading the horse by the bit.
Car in front of me passed it way too close, horse got a little spooked but the guy kept good hold of it.
I irritated the driver behind me (a meter from my back bumper) by braking and going into the other lane to go wide and slow past it. 😀
Wasn't too hard. Added maybe fifteen seconds to our journey time.
Wasn't too hard. Added maybe fifteen seconds to our journey time.
Pretty meaningless statement, for all we know you could drive like molgrips. 😆
Added maybe fifteen seconds to our journey time.
that's a lifetime for some though
edit: was a learner driver for me. because I was 3 cars back, and holding back from the 2 cars in front that were --><-- that far way from a 3 car shunt, apparently it was me that was holding up the traffic. he might have been 1 whole traffic light phase late for work.
Yeah I never understand that mentality.
Big line of traffic pootling along in front, clearly nowhere to go, but the driver behind still insists on rubbing bumpers. Presumably they are encouraging me to teleport out of the way?
Leaving a proper safe gap. Another good reason for periodic re-tests.
its the same mentality that makes people pull crazy overtaking manoeuvres on cyclists so that they can then slam on the brakes 30ft later for the red light 😕
Everybody seems to be in a hurry to get to the end of a queue (more urban than rural I accept). I guess that's a life of making progress. 🙂
Big line of traffic pootling along in front, clearly nowhere to go, but the driver behind still insists on rubbing bumpers. Presumably they are encouraging me to teleport out of the way?
*honks horn*
Get outta da way!
Yeah I suspect that being a cyclist opens your eyes a bit to these things.
I had a nasty mechanical in the car last night: rear passenger-side suspension spring snapped (ooft!)
So I crawled it the mile or so back to the car park at 15mph (on a 40mph road) with my hazards on, carefully avoiding bumps and waving people past.
Ended up with a lorry behind me, obviously annoyed and sat right on my bumper. When I turned off (after he was "stuck" behind me for maybe a minute) he was tooting his horn and giving me the coffee beans. 🙄
at least you did limp it back, have noticed a disturbing trend over recent years of people having breakdowns and just stopping their car where it is, sticking the hazards on and calling the recovery service, no attempt to push or limp to a safer/less in the way location 😕
has anybody read this since they past their test?
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free to read via this link
https://www.gov.uk/browse/driving/highway-code
I'm seriously considering riding one these soon
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then see how many people complain about the "lack of road tax"
has anybody read this since they past their test?
I think most people regard it as some archaic purely theoretical thing that they had to learn for their test, but which doesn't really apply to [i]real[/i] driving.
for minor bumps too, mid morning commute roads absolutely rammed and a couple of drivers having a chat in the middle of traffic.have noticed a disturbing trend over recent years of people having breakdowns and just stopping their car where it is,
I could see the point of getting a couple of snaps of the cars in situ before pulling over but these people always just seem to be exchanging details [i]in the middle of rush hour traffic[/i]
