1969, you're in a car driving at 70mph on a motorway so what makes and models of car will overtake you?
The results may surprise you.
BBC report on the cost of motorways
(, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 14:07, Reply)
Nobody on the motorway
the driving lane is empty, and they still drive in the middle lane, complaining about people overtaking them.
Nothing has changed in 56 years...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 16:26,
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line towards the end, 'we've got to plan fifty years ahead so that those in the future can live in some semblance of order and sanity'
well that worked out ok
(, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 16:34, Reply)
Though he isn't wearing a seatbelt in the back.
Blimey just looked it up and wasn't compulsory until 1986 and that was only fitting not wearing.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 18:15,
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Clunk click, every trip.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 20:15,
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Not sure if it was posted on here or not but I think there was another piece, interviews with pub goers, about seatbelts being made mandatory
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nope, I was thinking about the 1967 interviews including breathalyser tests a couple of days before drink driving became an offence
seatbelts in the front was '82
(, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 22:12, Reply)
I met an American dad and his adult son in a hostel in Japan about 16 years ago.
They were friendly enough, and they offered a good primer on what would now be called MAGA talking points: telling me about how Obama was turning the USA into a socialist country, where on the internet I can find out how 9/11 was an inside job, that sort of thing. Thankfully vaccines never came up.
Nothing exercised the dad as much as seatbelts, though. "They're going to legislate to force us to wear seatbelts on [motor]bikes!" he frothed, angrily stubbing out his cigarette. "Let me tell you," he continued, brandishing his stub, "I've been in four car accidents - and in each one, if I'd been wearing a seatbelt, I would have been killed!"
I didn't ask him to elaborate.
(, Fri 19 Sep 2025, 12:30, Reply)
We had the same car and I remember Dad having to get seat belts fitted
How we youngsters grumbled on the way down to Folkestone summer holidays, every year, without fail
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 19 Sep 2025, 13:09,
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Fake news
There's no way a Maxi would be anywhere near anyone going at 70, let alone overtaking them
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Thu 18 Sep 2025, 22:37,
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I expected the Hillman or the Maxi to spontaneously fall apart at any second
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