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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
How bad is the use of mobile phones in vehicles? Probably a lot worse than you might think. Documentary captures young drivers using phones, taking selfies behind the wheel. It's actually got me interested in seeing the full documentary. "We told them we were going to put cameras in their cars and observe their behaviour, and just to act the way they normally did." I'm amazed there aren't more minor crashes, let alone much more serious ones, than there already are. Grant Darwin NT |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
How bad is the use of mobile phones in vehicles? Probably a lot worse than you might think. I have noticed my commute getting longer and longer as more and more drivers are head down and don't go when the car in front of them does. Miss a light cycle and boom, a ripple. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
No comment http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/09/21/tractor-trailer-makes-wrong-turn-and-gets-stuck-on-new-jersey-beach-boardwalk.html A semi-truck driver, who apparently made a wrong turn, drove his 18-wheeler nearly three miles down the famous beachside boardwalk that runs from Atlantic City to Ventnor City. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
That's okay, he had Dick Emery as a driving instructer LOL.....that was a hoot! Thanks for posting that one. MeowLOL!!!!!! "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13722 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
That's okay, he had Dick Emery as a driving instructer Dick Emery, there's a name from the past. I'd forgotten the Vicar and all those teeth. Grant Darwin NT |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Traffic control on highway E18 between Stockholm and Enköping yesterday. It is the military exercise Aurora 17 which is in progress in the county and which causes traffic congestion. https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.svt.se%2Fnyheter%2Flokalt%2Fuppsala%2Fe18-avstangd-1&edit-text= |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Why the news clamp down?1) You don't have a first amendment. 2)They don't want the perp to bask? 3) General panic? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19014 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
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Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 906 Credit: 261,085,289 RAC: 572 |
Something else to worry about Its about time they brought in a proper punishment for serious offences like that, and I mean compulsory jail time not only for the driver but also the transport manager. Put it in the same sort of category as Drink Driving or Dangerous Driving. Any firm that suggested anything like that to me would be looking for another driver and expecting a knock at the door. Kevin |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Agreed but to add to that, make the fines to the companies that do, a stiff one. I can't recall if I posted a link about this in the past (pretty sure I did), but a police force actually took one of the tractor units fitted with one of those devices onto a closed section of motorway for a test & was accompaned by a police chase car. The unit had cameras inside & it got to 108kph while the speedo registered much less. It also reduced the unit's braking power. 108kph might not look fast but what would the case be if it had a trailer attached with a full load? My thoughts after seeing that film was SCARY! |
Kevin Olley Send message Joined: 3 Aug 99 Posts: 906 Credit: 261,085,289 RAC: 572 |
Agreed but to add to that, make the fines to the companies that do, a stiff one. Too many interlinked electronics in the modern trucks, you upset one and it can alter how others work. In the old days when you pressed a pedal it was connected to whatever it worked not a bunch of electronics. Kevin |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Agreed but to add to that, make the fines to the companies that do, a stiff one.Seize the tractor, the trailer and the load. Let them see if they can buy insurance for that. Won't take more that a couple and it will be all over, except for individual operators. For the driver drink driving penalties. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24877 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
LMAO. Think we've done enough to p off Europe for now. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Pictures have emerged showing the crumpled nose of a Boeing 737 following a dramatic midair bird strike impact yesterday. Them birds can pack a punch. Cheers. |
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