The case for speed cameras destroyed in a flash 690

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The case for speed cameras destroyed in a flash 690 What an outrageous statement for Howard to make. The only thing that can be done is to slow drivers down? What a narrow minded, defeatist atbreastude. What about raising training standards and... The case for speed cameras destroyed in a flash 691 Now come to chicago and drive around here for awhile without knowledge of the local speed traps... DTel: The case for speed cameras destroyed in a flash How many crashes are caused by speeding drivers is irrelevant to being cited for operating in excess of the speed limit. This... Good UK Road safety improving now safer than ever 693 On 30 Sep 2006 01:13:12 -0700, David from Oz was popularly supposed to have said: There is a strance... Good UK Road safety improving now safer than ever 694 allan tracy Running over a child at higher speed shas more chance of killing them than at lower speeds? True. That's why 30 limits... Good UK Road safety improving now safer than ever 695 Adrian thats good because i've not said that and i support them not being forced. I've pointed this out... Good UK Road safety improving now safer than ever 696 allan tracy Think objectively rather emotionally about this. In particular, look at the "driver in a hurry, child in a coma" poster, and ask... Good UK Road safety improving now safer than ever 697 A dual three lane carriageway in a non residential area, where there are very rarely... Are our police blind Or just too lazy to do their job properly. Was stuck in a 'train' of traffic today, about 10 cars back, on a... Are our police blind 699 On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, PC Paul I hope you're not lumping me in with them. I'm anything but. But... Are our police blind 700 Ah, I see where we clash here. You are talking about bikers as you know them. I would... Are our police blind 701 On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, SteveH Why not, after all I'll probably get bored of your f**wittery before you get bored... Are our police blind 702 Erm, that's nothing to do with it. Any car made in the last few decades would be safe on... Are our police blind 703 On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, SteveH Yes, one would think so, but you don't know what was going through this... Are our police blind 704 So, the Highway Code says he should* pull over, but you don't think that the police should have pulled him, even though they were there and could have done? In that case, I'd like to... Are our police blind 705 On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, SteveH How big does this big queue of traffic have to be, and how long does it have to last... Breakdown cover 706 On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:03:10 GMT, "Sharon O." I use Equity Red Star Motor Policies at Lloyds via AutoAid for £29... Breakdown cover 707 Totally different type of gearbox. But yes, I could get a car home without a... Breakdown cover 708 Knight Of The Road Now you come to mention it I remember them about mid seventies and the box was a roadranger but Sed-Ak didn't get it together to sort the change... Breakdown cover 709 Lol that sort of thing used to be my philosophy, when I was a teenage driver... Porsche Cayenne Is it a girls car MrBitsy I know what it is. I know how to avoid it. And I know there have been times when having done it in safe circumstances, deliberately... parking initiative Ha!! More pandering to the disorganised motorist allowing them to cause inconvenience to others. New phone... And now, from the Ministry of Stupidity We have this: What the report says is that an influential transport group, with the remit of "aiming to close the economic gap... Best portable sat nav 713 On 03 Oct 2006 10:09:49 GMT, Adrian I've posted here before that the Pocket PC... Best portable sat nav 714 On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:49:34 GMT, . You said it never happened to any of the devices, hence "bollocks" now you... Best portable sat nav 715 On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:35:45 GMT, . snip No, but I can see how you keep trying to push it in that direction. As I mentioned earlier... Best portable sat nav 716 Steve Firth no it didn't. you don't realise that I knew that WinCE was a poo OS back then (and still is) but hasn't been in use for donkeys... Best portable sat nav 717 Conor compact for 2 1-2 years, europe wide, commercially. the one time "it" failed me the failure turned out to... Best portable sat nav 718 On 03 Oct 2006 14:35:23 GMT, Adrian this computer. I use it regularly, mostly for in-car navigation. Compared to my 1993 Newton Message Pad, it's a... Best portable sat nav 719 Steve Firth which one is it ? whaddayagot ? or is this another brimstone situation ? how strange. I have 2 WM5 devices and... Best portable sat nav 720 Huge incorrect. hundreds of thousands of people don't have problems with pocket PC's. if you decide to be in the minority of people who do then it's likely that you have not... Best portable sat nav 721 Adrian you're ignoring the workarounds. do you do that with your desktops ? unlikely. with steve neatly avoiding my point that manuials are printed pre production and the best... Best portable sat nav 723 Brimstone hahahhaha, I was waiting for some numpty to ask that and how appropriate that it's from a numpty who doesn't even use sat nav. here comes the answer: I want to take a diffenet... Most Overrated Cars of all Time. 724 TripleS I'm not aware that there were any worries. There's an article here about the race: A couple of paragraphs from the article: "The great Juan Manuel Fangio reportedly wanted to take part but wouldn't... Most Overrated Cars of all Time. 725 Not really elevated to the level of Deity, but overrated nonetheless- The VW Golf. Zzzzzzzzzz! I'll never understand why people pay loads of money for them secondhand when there... Top Gear Saved Steve Firth Well I must admit that whilst I can readily agree with Ray about certain aspects of driving... Now it's official 728 On 10 Oct 2006 06:38:04 -0700, baggy1963 Happened today, only it wasn't on the M3 it was on... Now it's official 729 Oh, yes. Both. Drove a 320 to Luxembourg and back several times. Vile thing. And the pool car... O.T. Veil 730 It was an unpleasant but not especially vicious street attack from what I've read. The race card seems to trump common sense... O.T. Veil 731 Excuse me?! You might want to reconsider that statement. With respect you're drifting away from the point. I'll try again- are you claiming that religious police do... O.T. Veil 732 Because there's been some rather extreme views stated by others which I have no desire to be lumped in with, and I do not feel... Reversing an artic... 733 Conor One of my type? What type is that? (Oh! I forgot, 'Pikey ***' wasn't it?) Because someone... Reversing an artic... 734 Thats how the driver gains experience - its not always easy and it has to learned the hard way through... Engine failure Twas driving to Stratford Saturday morning when on the A46 at Coventry this people carrier (didn't notice the make) joined the road ahead of me at a roand-a-bout. He seemed to be... Blind Spot Mirrors Taking of blind... I've been meaning to start a thread about blind spot mirrors for a... Blind Spot Mirrors 738 On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, bucket This is the same on my 2-door Punto. I have the wing mirrors adjusted so that in my normal seating position I... Blind Spot Mirrors 739 On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, MrBitsy We're not talking about turning around and admiring the view. We're talking about a very quick glance to see if something is there... Blind Spot Mirrors 740 Conor Nope. By the time you've started your news client to count the groups the Unix method has finished. For more than a screenful of items? For a hierarchy of files? In text form... Blind Spot Mirrors 741 My thoughts entirely and my reason for fitting blind spot mirrors and wanting to start this thread about it. I... 35 mph: "Dangerous and idiotic" 742 On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:52:47 +0100, James Grabowski Well, I deleted the files because I got bored referring to them, but... 35 mph: "Dangerous and idiotic" 743 On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Simon Dobson Some of those are sneaky but I notice the page has the following in a couple of places. "this camera has... 35 mph: "Dangerous and idiotic" 744 Steve Firth So you're aware of them then. On unfamiliar roads which look like they're likely to have speed traps I stick to... Having fun with fines My friend Cecil likes to have a bit of fun. He turns almost every negative experience into a positive one. Fortunately he has a few quid in the bank, so... THIS IS SO REAL PEOPLE IM ASKING FOR DONATIONS FOR HEART SURGERY Mike, Tom, Fred - seem to be a lot of you you in the same predicament depending on which NG you visit. Just thank the Lord you live in a civilised country like America where you... EU to force daytime use of headlights they clearer. Reply from a contributor to uk.rec.cycling Anybody who knows anything about visual perception... GV03RVY 748 A week or so ago driving to Macclesfield General Hospital about half way between Alderly Edge and Macclesfield, on a section that was signposted for Z bends I came up behind a street sweeping... GV03RVY 749 I gave up holding them in awe when it became obvious that one of them (trained in the... New to automatics Ok - in a moment of madness, I have just bought my first ever automatic (Scorpio) and apart from 1-4 mile in a Jag twenty years ago, I've never driven one before. It is to be... New to automatics 751 Harry Bloomfield I don't like that, because you are used to pushing quite hard with your left when pushing... New to automatics 752 sounding much like they were saying : They're pee easy. My last two daily drivers (130,000 miles between 'em) have been slushboxed. I wouldn't... New to automatics 753 bucket you're being trolled by the holy "trollinity" of 2steves and an adrian who are always right about anything, especially if they have no 1st hand knowledge of... New to automatics 754 That is totally contradictory. You judged me in an instant an are still doing so. Summed me up as a couldn't drive arsehole with no experience of autos. Jumped at me before trying... New to automatics 755 auto I have never doubted that you have engine braking with the autos you have driven. I... New to automatics No reason why you shouldn't if you feel comfortable doing so, although I can tell... New to automatics 757 On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:40:14 +0100, Tim S Kemp The number of problems mostly, warped disks, failed parking brake, broken spring, interior trim fell off, gearbox... New to automatics Bound to"? You should have qualified that statement Kev. I have 2 cars which I regularly drive. One is an automatic, the... New to automatics 759 Mike G Not meaning to quibble you over that, but I'm not getting why it's easier to use the foot brake over the handbrake? Is the slope upwards or downwards... New to automatics If your h-brake can easily* hold the car on a steep incline, and I mean the ones at maybe 10-15 degrees that you... New to automatics 761 Mike G My handbrake would hold it in that scenario, when in drive - most definitely... New to automatics 762 From distant memory- P - Park- neutral and locks the wheels via the transmission to prevent rolling. Some models will only start... New to automatics 763 Dave Plowman (News) Not that we haven't had this debate before ;-) but at least one marque - Volvo - has produced software updates to stop their auto gearboxes from doing... Fw: 2m has gone to the dogs....... 764 Knight Of The Road I readily admit that I found their position surprising (given their other postings), but that is more or less what they were at... Fw: 2m has gone to the dogs....... 765 JNugent .....continue, with the relevent part, the reference to the person I know who is a fruitcake and a PhD. No. Don't... Fw: 2m has gone to the dogs....... 766 Time to repeat the apocryphal story... A schools inspector was on his way to visit... Fw: 2m has gone to the dogs....... 767 JNugent Wrong buttumption. And how much intelligence (as opposed to education and learning) does that take? I'm sure you've met people at...

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