Did you you have a billiard table road to try it on ? with the small wheels they look as though they would be hard to control&uncomfortable over most scarred roads I cycle on,
I've never ridden a skateboard though.
Your bad driving encounters
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I've never ridden a skateboard though.
we lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere down a single width road and was often used as a cut through between two main roads. People go way too fast for the road (speed limit) 50mph and one day a motorcyclist flew past the farm, must have been doing close to a tonne. What he perhaps didnt know was that further down the lane there is a real nasty bend (my dads land) and he never even came close to making the bend and went straight on and hit the fence and departed the bike and landed about 300 feet later in the field. My dad was first to the scene and made sure me and my brother didnt go anyway near. The guys backbone had detached and gone up into helmet with the force of landing.
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Had a bit of an iffy one on a roundabout earlier - as I passed a joining road the car waiting there came out pretty promptly behind me giving me little margin for getting over to the left to take the exit I wanted as I'd normally do and being a narrow and quite sharp roundabout and them sitting partially in a blind spot (and being dark) it was best to hold my lane into the outside lane of the dual-carriageway exit - then I'm sitting in lane 2, at a reasonable speed, with them creeping up my inside in lane 1 but not really making any progress... where the **** did they think I was going to go? I could have just sat out in lane 2 and/or eased my speed off until they'd undertaken me I guess but meh - kind of cut them up going back to lane 1 and they swung sharply out into lane 2 to go around me and put their foot down... completely needless really if they'd just hung back 1-2 seconds they could have gone around me no drama.
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i have a question to people with a car with "automatic braking" or "Automatic emergency braking" etc
what would you do in this situation ? (as i don't have it currently)
Driving past parked cars that are on your side of the road, so you are basically on the wrong side of the road, no cars approaching parked cars for a while, but as your near the end of the parked cars, a vehicle coming the other way decides to "continue" and not stop and let you through
if you see what i mean ?
what would you do in this situation ? (as i don't have it currently)
Driving past parked cars that are on your side of the road, so you are basically on the wrong side of the road, no cars approaching parked cars for a while, but as your near the end of the parked cars, a vehicle coming the other way decides to "continue" and not stop and let you through
if you see what i mean ?
You have priority, if you hit the accel then the car will go. Emergency braking only comes in at the very last possible second. Not a chance it would come in on this scenario.
My tesla has a warning hissy fit on the dash screen about the ppossibility of collision but does not engage braking..
When it DOES engage emergency anchors is when I'm about to literally ram the arse end of the line of traffic in front of me.
Never ever had it engage outside of this scenario
My tesla has a warning hissy fit on the dash screen about the ppossibility of collision but does not engage braking..
When it DOES engage emergency anchors is when I'm about to literally ram the arse end of the line of traffic in front of me.
Never ever had it engage outside of this scenario
I've only had it engage twice and both were exceptional circumstances - I've never had it kick in in a situation like that yet.
In one case the car in front of me in the queue at lights decided to stamp on the brakes to let someone in from a side road just as we'd got up to speed after the lights changed - though I reacted quickly the collision assist reacted as well. The other case some daft old person doing 40 on a dual carriageway decided to pull out in front of me without indicating so as to take a right exit coming up
without the collision assist kicking in would have been a bit hit and miss. They then proceeded to cause other vehicles to swerve on the other carriageway as they crossed.
In one case the car in front of me in the queue at lights decided to stamp on the brakes to let someone in from a side road just as we'd got up to speed after the lights changed - though I reacted quickly the collision assist reacted as well. The other case some daft old person doing 40 on a dual carriageway decided to pull out in front of me without indicating so as to take a right exit coming up
without the collision assist kicking in would have been a bit hit and miss. They then proceeded to cause other vehicles to swerve on the other carriageway as they crossed.
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Someone on hippy crack driving dangerously and then threw out his large nitrous oxide canister out of the window whilst going round a roundabout. I was behind him. If the NO canister hit the roundabout kerb, it would’ve caused damage to my car.
Wish had a dash cam
Wish had a dash cam
Sigh and another one coming home tonight - 30s and 40s right up my arse, NSL and they fall way back - wasn't until I got to 5-6 miles of open road before I could put good distance on them. If I'd had to emergency brake for any reason they'd been right in the back of me no ifs or buts. How are people's brains this scrambled they can't see how stupid it is?
Truck loaded up with pallets as well so not an ideal situation at all.
Need to hook up my rear dashcam :s
Truck loaded up with pallets as well so not an ideal situation at all.
Need to hook up my rear dashcam :s
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I nearly posted the same thing yesterday about people's complete inability to know what the speed limit is. Was on a NSL road yesterday and was at the back of a train of 6 cars behind one person who was doing 25 - 30 for some reason (this was in fine, sunny, dry conditions).
I nearly posted the same thing yesterday about people's complete inability to know what the speed limit is. Was on a NSL road yesterday and was at the back of a train of 6 cars behind one person who was doing 25 - 30 for some reason (this was in fine, sunny, dry conditions).
I always seem to get the elderly Sunday crowd if I leave work between around 10pm and midnight or so on a Sunday
if I can't get an overtaking chance it adds +50% to my journey time home some of them I suspect would fail a breathalyser as well.
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Coming home from Wales late last night, folk plodding along in lane 3 of the 4 lane M6. No cars for ages, I'm in lane 1 coming up behind them. I stayed in that lane as I didn't want to whang it over 4 lanes and then back to lane 1
Are they that asleep or just terrified of moving lanes?
Are they that asleep or just terrified of moving lanes?
Near collision today.
Joining M18 from A1. As I'm approaching the merge point I checked and there was a caddy van in Lane 2, lane 1 clear. As I start to move from the slip into lane 1 the silly bint moves over into lane 1. I avoided her and then overtook her. Eyes glazed and fixed stare ahead with a terrified look on her face. The type of driver that shouldn't be on the motorway.
Joining M18 from A1. As I'm approaching the merge point I checked and there was a caddy van in Lane 2, lane 1 clear. As I start to move from the slip into lane 1 the silly bint moves over into lane 1. I avoided her and then overtook her. Eyes glazed and fixed stare ahead with a terrified look on her face. The type of driver that shouldn't be on the motorway.
Just lazy, probably more attention on talking to someone either passenger or on the phone than what is going on around them, etc.
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Overtaking me was a bit pointless but I could see it coming enough to slow down and make sure there was enough space, but carrying on after that with absolutely zero ***** given I did not see coming…
Won't lie I've overtaken somewhat like the first bit there when a slower vehicle was in your position, wouldn't dream of the second bit (which ended up being a bit pointless as no chance came up to overtake the next one).
Lot of accidents along that road, was a double fatal one a few days back that held up some of my colleagues for a couple of hours or more. Also where I once saw a motorcyclist decapitated a bit further along.
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Yeah I’ve done that many times before, either misjudging it or not realising it was merging to one so I didn’t have an issue with that so much. We all make mistakes!