I'm 100 % with you. Make every road average speed camera. I think any one that cares about others doesn't thing if the road network as a race track or that the rules don't apply to them because they know better. I hope with electric cars comes black boxes and auto fining and points to be honest.
It's illegal anyway so why risk you potentially getting a fine for helping an a hole out who can't stick to the limit.
Black boxes have a tolerance on them you know you don't instantly get fined for doing 30.1mph in a 30.
I wouldn't mind if people stuck to them, our little town is 20mph surrounded by 40-60mph roads, and you get the occasional scrote that has passed their test in their ****box corsa that decides to bounce it off the limiter in 1st through the town, but it's the exception really.
The police can however from memory do you for much more serious offences if they catch you using a vehicle that doesn't meet the construction and use regs and iirc a motbility scooter has some very strict rules and once you go outside of them it'll likely be classed as a car or something and you get done for it not being roadworthy, not being registered, not licenced, and not insured
Mobility scooters are only classed as such if they meet the regs for class 3 or class 4 (4 or 8mph with the associated limiters and features)
That thing he's riding looks like a modified shoprider soverign, they're not particularly stable at 4mp (what they're designed for) on road surfaces and i hate to think what the brakes would be like, and he's also not wearing a helmet nor a belt (not that that would do much good).
Yes I'm a bit of a sourpuss
what a thoroughly refreshing thing to read. it's sometimes just the smallest of things that can make an other persons life a tiny bit better. if we all just tried to do those little things from time to time the world would be a much happier place.
I'm not perfect, but at the same time I try and make an effort with people, a smile, a wave, letting them out of a junction, carrying their bags / helping with a stroller, takes a minute or less out of my day, but hopefully it's passed on.
not being 'weird' but that's genuinely cheered me up reading that. there are so few people in society these days with an outlook like yours that it gladdens the heart when i come across one. don't get me wrong, i don't think everyone is out to shaft everyone else but society as a whole seems to have become so much more insular - the 'i'm alight Jack, screw the rest of you' mindset would appear, imo, to be much more prevalent nowadays.I'm not perfect, but at the same time I try and make an effort with people, a smile, a wave, letting them out of a junction, carrying their bags / helping with a stroller, takes a minute or less out of my day, but hopefully it's passed on.
The way I see it, especially with driving is, if you can help make people less stressed and be a bit happier, they're less likely to drive aggressively, and therefore indirectly may help prevent an accident, or them hurting themselves or someone else. We're all responsible for one another on the road.
As I said previously, if someone is tailgating, rather than sticking the finger up, I'll try and let them pass me if it's safe, I don't know why they're in a rush, it could be an emergency, or it could be that they're driving like a dick. But so what? Me holding them up or getting aggressive with them accomplishes nothing, and gets me stressed too, or puts me at risk. Life's too short to prove a point
Thank you. A few people have met me from here and I think that's how I come across. But even if my message helps change people's behaviours a little then my job is done!
I didn't use to think that, till I got done by this camera :
I wish I was as laid back as you are !I'm not perfect, but at the same time I try and make an effort with people, a smile, a wave, letting them out of a junction, carrying their bags / helping with a stroller, takes a minute or less out of my day, but hopefully it's passed on.
The way I see it, especially with driving is, if you can help make people less stressed and be a bit happier, they're less likely to drive aggressively, and therefore indirectly may help prevent an accident, or them hurting themselves or someone else. We're all responsible for one another on the road.
As I said previously, if someone is tailgating, rather than sticking the finger up, I'll try and let them pass me if it's safe, I don't know why they're in a rush, it could be an emergency, or it could be that they're driving like a dick. But so what? Me holding them up or getting aggressive with them accomplishes nothing, and gets me stressed too, or puts me at risk. Life's too short to prove a point
I wasn't always like that. I've just chilled out as I've got older, became a father and generally tried to improve the quality of my life and mental health!
