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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
On May 11, 3:00*pm, thaksin wrote:
spindrift wrote: On May 11, 12:18 pm, "Simon Mason" wrote: "spindrift" wrote in message .... A Safespeed supporter who recklessly and illegally overtakes and then threatens a lone female, class! It puzzles me as to why there are so many pro motoring lobbyists on a cycling NG; surely they have more than enough forums of their own. -- Simon Masonhttp://www.simonmason.karoo.net/ I don't mind them , call it the very public exposure of the kind of mindset among the pro-speeding lobby. nuxxy and judith and the others serve as a warning that the kind of people who demand the right to drive as fast as they like are precisely the least suitable people to whom this benefit ought be applied. Borderline sociopaths. I've been reading some of your history. It is pretty unbelievable just what a totally warped, deranged, car- hating ****wit he is, isn't it? It would be hard to believe if the Internet wasn't littered with all that hard evidence. He's clearly very sick; he desperately needs help, but that's not to say that I feel in any way sorry for him; anyone who is consumed with so much twisted hatred for motorists and anyone who dares to stick up for them, and anyone who makes bomb threats and goodness knows what else against people who rightly disagree with them, as well as all the other things he's said and done and boasted about doing, is deserving of only the *very* deepest contempt. Somehow, I don't despise him as much as Chapman, but it's only a very narrow disparity, and that's only because Chapman is totally aware of what he's doing, whereas Spindrift has definite and serious mental problems. He does the anti-camera campaign a power of good, of course: when you see that the pro-camera campaign has Spindrift, and many others who are similar (if not as bad), whereas the anti-camera campaign has no- one who is *anywhere near* as demented or disgusting, you know which side is the correct one without even bothering to look into the facts. In fact he's such a help to camera opponents that it was even thought for a while that Spindrift was actually Paul Smith: it would have been such a clever tactic that I might have believed it myself, were it not for the fact that no-one remotely sane, least of all Paul (RIP), could bring themselves to be that horribly vile, whether or not they were pretending. The only borderline sociopath in this group is the one that looks at you out of the mirror in the morning, you demented ****. Now FOAD, you posionous little scrote Right on, except the smiley of course. ;-) |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
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Alistair Gunn tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: Simon Mason twisted the electrons to say: Or how about making it impossible to exceed the speed limit? http://www.techradar.com/news/world-...imiters-597820 Isn't the usual argument at this stage that drivers will just leave their right foot flat on the floor and stop concentrating on what speed they're doing? That was certainly the argument advanced by some dick from the ABD on the box the other night. -- Dave Larrington http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo" - Enoch Root. |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
On 12 May, 23:54, Nuxx Bar wrote:
PLEASE say that you don't sit in lane 3 of the motorway at what you think is 70mph whether or not you're overtaking. Certainly not. If people want to do 100 mph plus that is up to them, but they risk being banned from the roads altogether like our football club chairman was yesterday. What, you've never seen anyone spot a camera and brake even when they were already within the speed limit? * Yes - I can't understand why. If someone suddenly spots (or is warned of) a camera, and they're not sure if they're within the arbitrary limit or not, it makes sense to brake first and check afterwards...that split second may make the difference between being nabbed and not. I prefer to know I am driving at the speed limit and therefore a) don't give a toss about any cameras and b) am 100% sure of not being nabbed. .. *Leave the policing to the police please, as they are trained to spot and deal with such things, and if you really think anyone's driving dangerously, report them. *That's what the police themselves would advise you to do, not take your own brand of vigilante action. So you agree that the police are the correct people to deal with drivers exceeeding the speed limit and are trained to deal with them by prosecuting them? -- Simon Mason |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
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Phil W Lee phil(at)lee-family(dot)me(dot)uk tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: I'd prefer to see a system where instead of completely preventing breaches of the speed limit, a "notch" or moveable detent was put in the accelerator, which could be overridden (by stamping hard) but not ignored. Citroen have such a system on the C5, although it is user programmable, rather than being driven by location. Sort of like cruise control in reverse. Cruise control normally works to keep the speed UP to the level programmed, but can be overridden, whereas this works to keep the speed DOWN to the level programmed unless deliberately overridden. A flashing beacon when in "override" would complete the design nicely From some reproduction of a Renault press release: "One particular Renault innovation is the cruise control/speed limiter which comes with a new interface. When this function is activated, the speed selected by the driver is displayed at the top of the speedometer which itself is ringed by a sequence of lights that take the form of an arc around the central display. In speed limiter mode, the red segment lights up as the speed increases, while the selected speed flashes if exceeded. The use of colours is not only intuitive and functional; it also represents a gain in terms of response time." It's a fail. Any fule kno that looking at the speedometer, even for a fraction of a second, causes an immediate fatal accident... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03...terror_ordeal/ -- Dave Larrington http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk We hated you first. |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
Quoting Light of Aria :
Speed enforcement isn't road safety. It's the scape goating of a number of problems on one simplistic factor. Weren't you spewing this drivel in another thread? Would you like to start with "everyone must get out of my way" here, or with social Darwinism? -- David Damerell Oil is for sissies Today is Second Saturday, May - a weekend. |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
David Damerell wrote:
Quoting Light of Aria : Speed enforcement isn't road safety. It's the scape goating of a number of problems on one simplistic factor. Weren't you spewing this drivel in another thread? Would you like to start with "everyone must get out of my way" here, or with social Darwinism? How do you get internet access in your cave? Is it powered by a pterodactyl running round a wheel? |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
On May 14, 9:29*am, "Dave Larrington"
wrote: It's a fail. *Any fule kno that looking at the speedometer, even for a fraction of a second, causes an immediate fatal accident... **** off. No-one's ever said that, you car-hating loon. If you knew anything about actual safe driving then you'd appreciate that lots of little unnecessary distractions, while being hardly noticeable in isolation, add up to an increased accident risk. That's just one of the subtle concepts that some camera advocates are too stupid to grasp, and others pretend not to realise because it's inconvenient to them and their car-hating agenda to acknowledge it. |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
On May 14, 4:28*pm, David Damerell
wrote: Quoting *Light of Aria : Speed enforcement isn't road safety. It's the scape goating of a number of problems on one simplistic factor. Weren't you spewing this drivel in another thread? It's bad enough that he stated a banned point of view in one thread, but to do it in *two*.... No wonder there have been so many calls for moderation, to stop such terrible things happening. (Good job such calls will amount to nothing, like they always do.) Would you like to start with "everyone must get out of my way" here, or with social Darwinism? You like people getting in motorists' way don't you? Can't have them having it too easy...their frustration must be maximised, to punish them for daring to drive when you don't want them to. What is the problem with wanting to get in front of a slow person when there's miles of unused roadspace in front of them? Who would want to keep them sitting behind the slow person except a spiteful person, a busybody, a car-hater or a control freak? |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
On May 11, 3:00*pm, "mileburner" wrote:
Therefore from the people I know, cyclists *are* drivers too. This has been done to death. Car-haters can (and often do) drive themselves, it merely makes them hypocrites: they believe that they are somehow more entitled to drive than the "rabble" because they're important enough for an exception to be applied. Chapman is a classic example: anyone who doesn't believe that he thinks himself more important than "ordinary" types is not very bright, to say the least. "Do as I say, not as I do" is very much a cornerstone of socialism, which of course car-haters usually subscribe to. That's why Livingstone takes taxis everywhere, and doesn't have to pay a penalty fare when he does actually deign to take the train (and deliberately travels without a ticket). That's why Al Gore has a massive carbon footprint and is always jetting off to exotic locations for no good reason whatsoever, while he advocates all sorts of restrictions on the rest of us. That's why Communist governments had their own dedicated traffic lanes. Time and time again, you find that those who campaign for and instigate mean-spirited, socialism-related restrictions such as anti-motorist measures are living the high life themselves, and are much worse "offenders" (by their own self-righteous standards) than the rest of us. The only reason this "I don't hate cars, I drive myself" nonsense keeps coming up is because the car-haters are desperate to lie and show that they don't hate cars (part of the "strategy"), but they can't come up with any real, proper way of doing so (unsurprisingly considering that they do actually hate cars); the only thing they can think of is to keep desperately repeating "But I drive myself" in the forlorn hope that someone might be deceived. But it isn't working, and it's just another facet of the car-haters' self-importance that they so consistently underestimate the intelligence of others. One day they may just realise that they might be a bit more successful at getting motorists off the roads if they start telling the truth about hating cars and explaining why they think it would be better for people to stop driving, instead of getting people's backs up by lying and pretending to care about "safety", "the environment", "cycling" etc. Such a strategy certainly couldn't be any less effective than their current one. Still, I guess I shouldn't complain if they're rubbish at getting motorists off the roads...I'm quite happy for myself and everyone else to carry on driving, thanks, and I think cars are great. It may be sacrilege to say so on uk.rec.anti-motorist, but I couldn't really care less...at least I'm honest about what I think. |
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How to get speeding drivers to slow down.
spindrift wrote:
[ ... ] Mr Benn, there's no aniti-motorist sentiment here, most of us are motorists after all! If you feel that criticising BAD drivers is 'anti-motorist' then there's not much I can do about it, but don't invent arguments that haven't been made. Oh... the irony... |
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