This is extremely dangerous!
Perhaps I was told bollocks by an ex RCT instructor who taught me to drive, but the statutory speed limit may be exceeded for a short period on safety grounds IE overtaking and a few others such as making way for an emergency vehicle behind.
how can you accomodate that in one of these?
approximately:
"having assessed the road conditions and a sensible opportunity to overtake, you should select the gear with maximum acceleration for current speed, and complete the manoeuvre as quickly as possible, then resume driving at the indicated speed limit or whatever speed below this the driving conditions and your judgement of them dictates sensible" God he was a stiff upper lip type.
EDIT: the old boy was no nonsense "what can you see? how far can you see? are you confident you can bring your vehicle to a total stop at any unexpected event in the range you can see at the speed you are doing? slow down until you can dear boy."
I was taught to drive a car like it was an HGV in the old pre war style of momentum driving. So your fuel economy was brilliant, brakes are for coming to a halt and a momentary correction.
none of the "gears are for going, brakes are for slowing" shite that that HGV instructors now spout just so they get the test and leave a bunch of ungreen fuel wasters.
I was overtaking 60mph lorries and caravans in the outside lane on the M6 ex brum a few years ago and blue lights on a chase suddenly nearing up my bum, nowhere to tuck in, and I just blatted it to licence lost ( flat out in my old tricked up metro: 105? 110? ) until I could find a safe gap to pull in.
I must have been camera`d at least twice but a blue flashy behind probably counted as an exemption and I didnt get any paper nasties
I got a salute as I tucked in. (nice little gesture that I`d done my best)
If I had had one of those stupid things how useful would it have been?
dumb, dumb, dumb.
Yesterday got into a convo with an elderly couple at pub lunch, the lady has a Toyota Prius, she used to live in Africa and can fix landrovers and was defeated.
It wouldnt start after it stalled at a junction .
she felt mortified at calling the RAC.
They spotted it, the American market mod is now here, if the handbrake is off, it won`t start unless you depress the clutch to the floor even in neutral.
Apologies for length
(, Tue 30 Dec 2008, 13:23, Reply)