Clever cars to mean safer driving

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  • GastonJ
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    • Dec 2009
    • 5505

    #31
    Wouldn't be this one



    He only had a one horsepower cart.
    My master plan is to live forever..... going to plan so far
    Despite the cost of living, it's still very popular.
    No good deed goes unpunished....

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    • Meat-Head
      V.I.P. Member
      • Oct 2009
      • 32000

      #32
      ON TOPIC:-

      How silly a button to call 911.

      had punter peugoet 807 driving down road doing nothing
      gets a voice

      "emergency services, please clear the line"

      its daft how often do you ring 911 any way?

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      • GastonJ
        V.I.P. Member
        • Dec 2009
        • 5505

        #33
        I never ring 911, though I knew someone who had a 1973 version though.
        My master plan is to live forever..... going to plan so far
        Despite the cost of living, it's still very popular.
        No good deed goes unpunished....

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        • Meat-Head
          V.I.P. Member
          • Oct 2009
          • 32000

          #34
          Originally posted by GastonJ
          I never ring 911, though I knew someone who had a 1973 version though.

          Can be done, the daft bloke put it on ebay with it drilled out.

          listed as "mate got paid out". Some silly price it sold for.

          see with own eyes before and after, amazing job, not long after
          just to make sure it was converted to "tree shape"

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          • irorwayrix
            Newbie
            • Jun 2017
            • 14

            #35
            Clever cars to mean safer driving

            MINIs pretty much ARE cartoons, so thats a natural fit. SweetOn the other hand, can Disney make just ONE successful movie without pushing out a sequel?

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            • nara
              DK Veteran
              • May 2008
              • 2586

              #36
              Originally posted by irorwayrix
              MINIs pretty much ARE cartoons, so thats a natural fit. SweetOn the other hand, can Disney make just ONE successful movie without pushing out a sequel?
              Are you related to meaty?
              He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke.

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              • Meat-Head
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                • Oct 2009
                • 32000

                #37
                On topic:-

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                • ifred
                  DK Veteran
                  • Jun 2010
                  • 1627

                  #38
                  Clever cars, smart meters, connected fridges, intelligent phones, adaptive technology = literate intelligible DK posters

                  Keep your loan payments up to date otherwise you get switched off
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                  • GastonJ
                    V.I.P. Member
                    • Dec 2009
                    • 5505

                    #39
                    You forgot smart motorways. Make sure you pay your invoice when you pass the speed limit. Thin end of the wedge to having payg motorways, one of Dave Camerons old favourites. Sell major roads to private companies and charge for use.
                    My master plan is to live forever..... going to plan so far
                    Despite the cost of living, it's still very popular.
                    No good deed goes unpunished....

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                    • Meat-Head
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                      • Oct 2009
                      • 32000

                      #40
                      Goes both ways faston, some of us cycle on stolen bike 6 days a week and do 1500-2000 miles max per year

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                      • GastonJ
                        V.I.P. Member
                        • Dec 2009
                        • 5505

                        #41
                        Yes but the majority of cyclists I see don't ride on the roads, and even when they do ride the wrong way down one way streets, usually with no lights at night, ride through red lights and undertake lorries and buses then wonder why they end up as a new red mark on the road or as red paint under a bus or lorry.
                        My master plan is to live forever..... going to plan so far
                        Despite the cost of living, it's still very popular.
                        No good deed goes unpunished....

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                        • Meat-Head
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                          • Oct 2009
                          • 32000

                          #42
                          Gadton, friend of my sister, not sure which order, if lorry first or girl first, but lorry didnt
                          have his trafficator up, at traffic kight, then hung left, she and her bike both not repaiable
                          deemed lorry drivers fault.

                          uk govment "invested" £8MILLION, thats a lot, turn that into seconds, what yearcwould it be?

                          on driverless trucks, yet EVERYBODY says no.

                          can see the logic where on motirway, once at speed the lead takes over, but
                          as we know old people will find a way to get in the way

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                          • GastonJ
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                            • Dec 2009
                            • 5505

                            #43
                            There is talk of having 1 driver for 3 trucks, great 3 times the carnage when there's an accident. They do have a haulage system that needs 1 driver for a large number of containers, it's called a train and it's a lot effing safer then trying to use untested technology on the safest roads in the UK. What's needed is investment in a decent infrastructure to move containers from docks on trains to cover long distances up the spine of the UK to drop-off points for trucks to pick them up and deliver locally. That way the roads will be clearer, there will be less pollution, less traffic and much safer. However that would take a government with vision beyond it's own self interest and egotistical vanity projects like HS2. So won't happen, instead the public will be put at risk by running 3 trucks at a time on the motorways.
                            My master plan is to live forever..... going to plan so far
                            Despite the cost of living, it's still very popular.
                            No good deed goes unpunished....

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                            • Meat-Head
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                              • Oct 2009
                              • 32000

                              #44
                              So if one of the trucks has a "euro car parts" cambelt which snapps at 70mph
                              with no warning, then what happens

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                              • ifred
                                DK Veteran
                                • Jun 2010
                                • 1627

                                #45
                                Originally posted by GastonJ
                                There is talk of having 1 driver for 3 trucks, great 3 times the carnage when there's an accident. They do have a haulage system that needs 1 driver for a large number of containers, it's called a train and it's a lot effing safer then trying to use untested technology on the safest roads in the UK. What's needed is investment in a decent infrastructure to move containers from docks on trains to cover long distances up the spine of the UK to drop-off points for trucks to pick them up and deliver locally. That way the roads will be clearer, there will be less pollution, less traffic and much safer. However that would take a government with vision beyond it's own self interest and egotistical vanity projects like HS2. So won't happen, instead the public will be put at risk by running 3 trucks at a time on the motorways.
                                There was an even better network than that Gas double effing safer it was called the canal!
                                Big boat large load one horse only slow moving tortoises had to be careful of being squashed
                                1 horse power to move 10 ton how efficient is that?
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