The beginning of the end 1530
Uno Hoo! Thus finally dropping all pretence that the cameras are not about raising revenue. Well............you will note the above from...
This Morning 1531
Adrian says... Completely illogical and I think his colleague thought so too. His argument was...
This Morning 1532
were saying : And an update... ------------ Before 'phoning 999, van driver behind van driver and Saab driver and I get woman out of nova and switch...
This Morning 1533
were saying : And another... ---------------------- An apology - offered politely enough - and accepted. Filthette offered by way of explanation that "...until the scene is...
This Morning 1534
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:08:44 UTC, Mark Foster Oddly enough, I have no particular "argument" here. Here's what seems to be the germane bit of the original posting: "I...
This Morning 1535
I've tried to do that as fairly as I can, using quotes from the original posting. Please do poit out where you think I've gone wrong - I ave no axe...
This Morning 1536
I agree we all should be allowed to make our own decisions, and its great that Adrian's friends...
Top Gear Star in a reasonably priced car
Silk You're talking nonsense. 3 entries found for dogma. dog·ma ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dôgm, dg-) n...
merge in turn 1538
No it isn't. There are two distinctly separate, marked lanes at roadworks. Until one of them is actually coned off, they are BOTH OPEN. Wrong analogy again...
merge in turn 1539
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:46:58 UTC, Mark Foster And if the supermarket hasn't put up...
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Brimstone Rob Brimstone The only reason you get the above effect is because people don't understand the...
merge in turn 1541
What's the viola for? Playing a few études to pbutt the time in the queue? Not so. This...
merge in turn 1542
JNugent Let's try this from a very basic level. Night time = no vehicles (or very few) = no slow moving queue. Early morning = some vehicles = all vehicles merge whilst still travelling at (say...
merge in turn 1543
It depends upon how many cars are merging does it not? Let me stress once more that I agree...
merge in turn 1544
You appear to understand the effects of queues, but not the cause. buttuming a constant rush-hour flow of 2-lane traffic into a 1-lane...
merge in turn 1545
No it's not! If every driver in lane 1 closes up on the vehicle ahead, so as not...
merge in turn 1546
I have already made clear that I agree 100% that orderly zip-merging just prior to the obstruction is...
merge in turn 1547
Uno Hoo!" wrote in message If you look at it mathematically this is all about...
merge in turn 1548
Uno Hoo! Your logic is faulty. If only a set number of vehicles can pbutt 'point A' in a set period of time, then every car that merges into the queue ahead of you, will...
merge in turn with physics
That's right, but I think we should still try to spread the correct message as best we can. That way we at least have...
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Uno Hoo! I agree it is the method of choice and more efficient and less stressful provided that...
merge in turn 1551
Alistair J Murray" wrote in message Both of the above links are to articles by the same guy...
Interesting Speed Limit
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:24:27 GMT, "Aaron Borbora" It's like Coventry Airport. The local residents who complain about the noise are in a no win situation. The airport first opened in...
merge in turn 1553
PC Paul" wrote in message Just do the maths. A mile of traffic travelling at 10 mph at one vehicle apart (1 second) contains 188 cars and at...
Will the driver of DK04GBY report to your traffic manager for further driving instruction
Your Xmas cracker license may have expired along with your photocopy MOT. You drove 4 miles from Birchwood (the Oakwood gate double roundabout) to Ordford lane without one indicator, in...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey From 2006 Britain will be the first country...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
LOL. Your arrogance and "know-it-all-atbreastude" really does blind you to things, doesn't it. As you are clearly rather clueless, he is another clue for you about "conversion". Try to work...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Anthony R. Gold 1) No, however the cameras are aligned to give the best possible...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Alex Heney I didn't think there was, however you appear to be unable to join up what you know and to draw conclusions. Errm, there's no...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Steve Firth And after a bit of research I'm convinced that there's a great deal of wishful thinking going on. Here's a summary of what is needed for ANPR...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Peter Ramm But at present they are, and for good reasons. Oh you could, and you could also flatten bumps in...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Knight Of The Road I have said no such thing. You mistake economics and political will for scientific and technological ability. There...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Knight Of The Road How high can some jump in a space suit on Earth? Here's a hint, even without the mbutt of...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
I said I have seen it recreated on Earth. I showed you a video of the experiment recreated on Earth. This is exactly...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Well obviously. Which applies exactly the same no matter what "height" the shuttle is at. Anything that is going to hit it has to be...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Mine is a belief based on reasonable evaluation of verifiable evidence. Yours is a belief based on preposterous conjecture based on false buttumptions and sometimes falsified versions of the original...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
The softest surface layer of dust was blown outwards away from the area directly below the Lunar Module as it landed, by the force...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
They all sound the same to me. The clue is in the way he simply states it as indisputable FACT...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
The odd thing that all the "Moon Hoax" believers don't seem to appreciate is that to put on a hoax that big, that elaborate, involving that many people would actually be more difficult...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
uk.politics,crime removed from the newsgroups line. NIN won't let me post a message crossposted to over 5 newsgroups. There was a particular school (I forget which one) who did a lot with a radio...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Does anyone know what the error rates are for state of the art ANPR systems? With...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
I'll give you a real-life example from my own experience. I got stopped in my car entering the Global Gathering music festival in July. The...
Big Brother Vehicle Spy System: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey
Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 22 December 2005 The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys, which...
Windscreen wipers failed
My wife was driving our car 50 miles from home when it suffered catastrophic failure of the windscreen wipers in foul weather (lone woman driver...
RoSPA second drive uU|G*dfHK8Zr48
As I have said before, I never did an IAM course or a RoSPA course. All of my "tuition" has been private and self motivated interest. "If you want to learn something...
I Hate Other Motorists
The majority of them are stupid, and make everybody else suffer! I had to do an emergency stop today because of other idiots! I stopped in plenty of...
Gatso Speed cameras avoiding the fine 1578
Nevertheless, the police will try and prove you wrong if they think you're lying. Easier to pay the...
Gatso Speed cameras avoiding the fine 1579
Adrian much like they were saying : liquidate - there's a victim. Petty theft - there's a victim. Speeding - there's no victim. See the...
Gatso Speed cameras avoiding the fine 1580
None of this seems to deal with what is or isn't an unreasonable speed to drive at any point of time down a road type. Speed limits seem to be more and...
Looking at new Cars
I am considering replacing my Sei with a new car. So I went to a local dealer to see what they had to offer. It was a Peugeot dealer, so I...
Looking at new Cars
Mike G Well, I am talking from experience, but not a huge amount of experience. I travel along a narrow twisty, and dangerous NSL country road everyday. Even...
Test Drive
I went to my closest Fiat dealer today (about 20 miles away), and took a Panda for a test drive. The interior quality etc. seemed better...
Test Drive
encountered The situation I described is admittedly rare, but I have known it. In these cases I have used a combination of dipped headlights and front fog...
Poor driving over the Christmas break
I've seen some really awful examples of driving over the Christmas break this year. Standards can be expected...
You don't see this much anymore... 1586
Putting it in gear before you start pushing, surely? I've always found it very hard to get a car into gear without it producing some resistance, causing the car...
You don't see this much anymore... 1587
Heh - well for a while my Carlton Estate that I had at the time had a near-knackered battery on it, and most of the time I'd manage...
A change of heart
There's your first wrong buttumption. It's not. The System is essentially the same now as it has always been. No. The strength of the system is that it has NOT changed...
Speeding is dangerous. 1589
speedy gonzales Rob The problem is most drivers nowadays buttume it is their right to force their way onto the main road...
Speeding is dangerous. 1590
David Knowles" wrote in message Near where I live is a country road that is used...
Speeding is dangerous. 1591
If the distance is maintained, then yes, but obviously that's not much use in a non hypothetical world. In the real world, then no, it's hard to guarantee your...
Speeding is dangerous. 1592
2 situations, which is safe and which is unsafe? 1. Car driving at around 85 on 3 lane motorway. As driver...
Speeding is dangerous. uU|G*dfHK8Zr48
Wrong. You need to go away and learn at a better school. Correct, but that's NOT what you said. Now substansiate your buttertion or withdraw it. Like I said, you have a...
Drinking & driving
andy m came up with the following;: Nothing, I drink Coke, Pepsi, orange and lemonade etc. If I'm having a meal out I might have a shandy...
Drinking & driving 1595
Silk It isn't the source of *all* road safety ills, but if you look at the statistics then driving whilst intoxicated sticks out like a sore thumb as...
Drinking & driving 1596
David Knowles If you had two pints of "Stella" beer, which seems to be 5.2% alcohol by volume, that's equivalent to...
Drinking & driving 1597
referred, unsteady. The slight - and temporary - unsteadiness when walking (part way through the evening) does not necessarily mean an inability to handle the controls of the car reliably. You say greatly...
Drinking & driving 1598
Does 'mood change' really matter? Perhaps you're equating this to a change of atbreastude to one's driving, like a reduced...
Drinking & driving 1599
for so I You OK, it is not so much a matter of *your* doubts Ian, perhaps more a...
Drinking & driving 1600
completely Ah, the old reactions business again. May I refer you to another post of mine on this topic. Try to drive so that you don't...
Speed needn't be dangerous at all 1601
Nick Finnigan have similar fuel consumption at 50MPH and 70MPH There are several issues: 1) "Official" figures are more accurate than the "onboard fuel computer", just as "official" speed measurements are...
Speed needn't be dangerous at all 1602
Very well put. Incidents tend to be manufactured by the bad driving of the person doing the moaning. I drove from Welwyn Garden to Leamington Spa last weekend and saw a great...
Speed needn't be dangerous at all 1603
What we seem to have had for some time now is a system that has attempted to take away...
Speeding is dangerous. 1604
Adrian OK, thanks. Almost certainly. OT, one of his letters (allegedly) in similar vein to TPTB in London. Quote:- Wellington Gentlemen Whilst marching to Portugal to a position...
Psychology of a NIP
I was wondering how much of the intense feeling generated by Scameras is down to the way the penalty is notified.. If you...
Psychology of a NIP
When I was stopped by traffic plod in about 1988 for doing 96 on the M6 at...
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