2005 ish I think. Mk2.
Your bad driving encounters
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Well I guess for 50+ years a driver has been confident they can get in someone else's car and twiddle one of 2 or 3 knobs and get the lights working. Last few years seems to have broken that sensible concept.
Oh dear.
Yea and other things. The whole point was controls were a standard layout, but modern car designers don't seem to grasp the concept.
They think they are being clever by dumping everything in touchscreen menus etc, but actually the way it used to be was superior and was thought out by much smarter people.
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It has become quite clear in recent years that red lights in Bristol are becoming optional for many motorists (inspired by the cyclists i think 
). This morning there was very slow on the route to Ikea/M32 junction.
Not only did I see about five people ignore the same set of lights but one people carrier actually ignored the right hand turn lane and drove across the white hatch lines and took the turn from the opposite side.
Just before the M32 junction, people were trying to turn around across the opposing traffic lights when they realised how long the queue heading back up.
). This morning there was very slow on the route to Ikea/M32 junction.Not only did I see about five people ignore the same set of lights but one people carrier actually ignored the right hand turn lane and drove across the white hatch lines and took the turn from the opposite side.
Just before the M32 junction, people were trying to turn around across the opposing traffic lights when they realised how long the queue heading back up.
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In various places around me, roads are closed due to flooding.
Always get idiots who think they can drive through flooded roads.
Then their cars give up after engine floods etc.
Why do people do this? They do realise that their cars insurance won’t pay out. Also they should be billed by the Fire and Rescue Service too
Always get idiots who think they can drive through flooded roads.
Then their cars give up after engine floods etc.
Why do people do this? They do realise that their cars insurance won’t pay out. Also they should be billed by the Fire and Rescue Service too
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The day before there was a Passat Taxi that was driving his car angled towards me where we entered the minor flooded area at the same time. This is a wide road with cars parked to my left. Came close like within a foot to my right. :/
There was no need for that from him.
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I always wondered if an EV would fare better than ice in a flood?
Fwiw the most I've driven through are large puddles, so not that experienced with it. Some of the kids I've seen though, I don't understand why they keep going when it's clearly deeper than they thought
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Fwiw the most I've driven through are large puddles, so not that experienced with it. Some of the kids I've seen though, I don't understand why they keep going when it's clearly deeper than they thought
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I always wondered if an EV would fare better than ice in a flood?
Fwiw the most I've driven through are large puddles, so not that experienced with it. Some of the kids I've seen though, I don't understand why they keep going when it's clearly deeper than they thought
A properly built EV could practically go underwater for a short duration, in practise things like flotation risk will limit it to similar to a decent wading depth ICE for practical use but you aren't going to risk flooding the engine in 20-30cms of water like you can with some ICE vehicles.
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I was actually going to ask about the cybertruck, but then realised that's a really bad example
.I was actually going to ask about the cybertruck, but then realised that's a really bad example
I dunno if the Cybertruck has differential breathers but that would be another limit on how well it would handle flooding unless piped higher.
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Why do so many people drive like bellends in this cold weather, I see so many people driving like idiots in icy conditions at night on way home from work, I had some idiot van driver try to overtake me as I was going through a traffic light junction, (30 limit). He had to swerve as he realised he was about to hit the traffic light.
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This morning's is two fold. Putney High Street - the local bus garage is currently using it as bus storage in the early hours when shift changes are happening, which results in a lot of traffic. But on the opposite side of the road with his hazards on, two buses behind it waiting to get past and a million cars behind those buses. Now the width of this road means that the buses can't squeeze through, but cars can. So the logical thing for me to do was stop for 10 seconds and let the buses squeeze through, then all the cars behind them can carry on unhindered. Or just drive through like every other car and let the traffic build up unnecessarily. So I stop and flash the bus. The bus slowly starts moving, but in the same time the van behind me decides he'd rather not let the buses through and tries to overtake me. He then sees the bus is approaching and won't be able to fit through so stops in the middle of the road, therefore reducing the oncoming buses to a crawl as they have to squeeze through a now-tiny gap.
The buses came through, I pulled off and rejoined behind exactly the same vehicle I was behind 30 seconds earlier. Literally no delay and the traffic in the opposite direction is now flowing freely rather than blocking up the high street.
My two observations are - how the hell did Mr Van Man not see what I was doing, or have the patience to wait?
And secondly - how the hell are people so dense nowadays that they can't look a hundred metres ahead and see that a 10 second stop for them will allow the dozens of drivers in the opposite direction to get on with it too?
Honestly the "I'm alright jack" mentality in this country is genuinely staggering.
The buses came through, I pulled off and rejoined behind exactly the same vehicle I was behind 30 seconds earlier. Literally no delay and the traffic in the opposite direction is now flowing freely rather than blocking up the high street.
My two observations are - how the hell did Mr Van Man not see what I was doing, or have the patience to wait?
And secondly - how the hell are people so dense nowadays that they can't look a hundred metres ahead and see that a 10 second stop for them will allow the dozens of drivers in the opposite direction to get on with it too?
Honestly the "I'm alright jack" mentality in this country is genuinely staggering.
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Yeah It's a patience thing, some people just haven't got any, then there is the ones that have no patience and no driving sense to understand what helps the flow of traffic, then you have the ones that don't care about anybody else but themselves and their final destination, It makes me wonder how some of these people passed their driving test.
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A lot of people dont look ahead. Their eyes are glued to the vehicle in front and that is all they use to determine how to drive.
Strange one the other day.
Was driving down the M6, managed to time hitting Birmingham perfectly to coincide with 4pm school run traffic (oops!). Temporary 40mph speed limit in force, and traffic was moving around 20-30mph. I was in lane 2, car in front of me about 3-4 car lengths, lanes full to either side, and a HGV approaching from a good distance behind, maybe 30-40m back. HGV is approaching quickly - clearly at the limit or higher, gets literally about 1m behind me, and then sits on his horn, I can only assume to politely suggest I get the **** out of his way... and go where exactly?
Was driving down the M6, managed to time hitting Birmingham perfectly to coincide with 4pm school run traffic (oops!). Temporary 40mph speed limit in force, and traffic was moving around 20-30mph. I was in lane 2, car in front of me about 3-4 car lengths, lanes full to either side, and a HGV approaching from a good distance behind, maybe 30-40m back. HGV is approaching quickly - clearly at the limit or higher, gets literally about 1m behind me, and then sits on his horn, I can only assume to politely suggest I get the **** out of his way... and go where exactly?
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Used to live in an area where similar happened, there was a local farmer with an old Range Rover that would hang around the worst spots when it flooded.
Charged the inevitible hordes of broken down motorists £50 to tow them out of the usually increasing water levels.
It has become quite clear in recent years that red lights in Bristol are becoming optional for many motorists (inspired by the cyclists i think
Not only did I see about five people ignore the same set of lights but one people carrier actually ignored the right hand turn lane and drove across the white hatch lines and took the turn from the opposite side.
Just before the M32 junction, people were trying to turn around across the opposing traffic lights when they realised how long the queue heading back up.
Seems to be the same in a lot of places, I've noticed a stark increase over the past 2-3 years in the number of people treating amber and the first few seconds of red as a green light. Mass rollout of enforcement cameras would nip it in the bud but I can't see it happening around Glasgow given the state of the traffic lights themselves; most sets have at least one bulb out, a lens missing, are pointed in the wrong direction etc.