On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:18:08 +0100, Robert Briggs
Glad to hear it. Does that include the timorous that don't even try because they know its beyond them? I've known some people that were constantly scared, and sought out traffic lights so they could get across a really not-all-that-busy road, while I and most others I knew at the time would avoid the lights by using the more minor roads, and not having to wait on the red lights. Its those people I'm thinking of - I doubt that the test I've heard about, that appears to require a coordination and memory exercise would flunk people for forgetting to look in the rearview before braking - little things like that - would have these people simply not trying, or failing if they did.
A show like that must be a hoot.
Well, I'm not really familiar, first hand, with that test - there was a fellow on here a few months ago that described some of it, and it sounded pretty severe by US standards. Supposedly there's a difference between a roundabout and a traffic circle, and supposedly they were extremely easy to screw up and flunk the test over - at least that's the way I read it. Then there's the looking in the mirror before braking. I do it a lot, but I think I'm the rare exception.
OK, but it seems to be held up as a shining example when the public transport advocates here mention it.
Yeah, I avoid riding them whenever possible. I hate going to the airport because of having to ride them between the far-out parking and the terminal. It is one of the lowest forms of motorized transportation, I think.
Habitual TailgatorWeren't we just talking about this? And all this time I thought the point of...
Well, as more of an automobile advocate than a public transport advocate, it seems more in line with what I expected.
Had fight with gfriend over LLBingI agree with you 100%. The left lane is for pbutting. The right lane is for cruising. Nothing irritates me more than some idiot puttering along 5 miles below the speed limit in...
If I could ride a public transport that had all the advantages of my car (go where I want, when I want, no waiting, no sharing space with anyone else, complete control over the environment (audo, air conditioning, heating)) I'd park my car and ride it almost exclusively. But there is not such transport system (yet). If they ever get one going, it'll make millionaires out of even the employees!
Oh, yeah!
I'd like it - but it'd never get thru the legislatures.
I think it should be formal, and include about 15 - 20 hours of emergency handling and braking training, mostly out in a car making emergency lane changes, slolams, skid pad stuff, etc.
Yep, that'd be great.
Dave Head
