Fun fact. If you ever do defensive driving, you're taught to prevent bikes (push or motor) from coming up your inside, unless there is a cycle lane. Because when they do that they end up in your blind zone. Being in a van makes things even worse as my bind zone is a mile wide. You could part HMS Ark Royal behind my van and I couldn't see it. I've had a Range Rover sat on my back bumper and couldn't see it as I have no back windows. You could also park a Range Rover down the side of my van and again I couldn't see it in my mirrors.
You will notice a lot of car drivers will say "I didn't see you" when hitting a biker. That is because they can't ****ing see you when you try to squeeze through traffic.
So yes, I am a "stuck up" driver who blocks the inside of the road so that I don't turn left to hear *thud* because a cock with ruined testicles was riding down my blind spot.
Take this community for example. Elitism is everywhere you go. Makes it unpleasant at times and puts you off the game. If I lurked on the forum as a demo user before I got paid for S2, I doubt I'd have done it.
I've actually spent more time on demo servers than I have S2 ones.
To bring up something from a different thread, at about 16-17 seconds she sweeps her right ear and puts something in her left pocket. £5 says she was using a Bluetooth headset when she hit him.
No no, that did happen. Top Gear has now said that Audi is the cocks car because cocks were fed up of people thinking they were cocks for owning BMWs.
It has nothing to do with being sued, it is the mechanism which drives the speedo. There are many factors which will alter the accuracy of your speedo which is why legally you're given a 10% grace in the speed. Or should I say were. People quote that figure a lot and it was the law. But in the 90's it was dropped to 3% as the accuracy of speedo increased.
The manufacture doesn't give two shits about if you get caught speeding as you'd lose that court case in a heart beat, which is why no one has tried it.
Get yourself one of the super accurate GPS speedos and more often than there will be +/-1mph difference. Assuming you haven't altered the wheel size, at which point it is your own dumb fault.
All of the studies in the UK have been done while comparing it to only drinking the legal limit (which in the UK is one of the highest in Europe and quite high when compared to the rest of the world) and they found the driver using a phone (even hands free) had worse reaction times than the drink driver. And most would get so engrossed in the conversation they wouldn't notice a danger until it was too late to do anything about it.
If you nailed half a dozen pints, I suspect the balance would swing the other way quite quickly.
But then I am one of the Nazis who think you shouldn't be allowed to eat or drink while driving as I've had idiots get very close to side swiping me on the motorway because they were busy drinking a fizzy beverage or eating lunch while driving.
Sending text messages while driving is even worse than phoning someone. I hope when you crash you don't take out someone innocent in the process.
I am really starting to enjoy creating things now. I've setup a nice two way roller coaster with a few two way auto reset boosters to help you get around. But also wired in switches so if you're at Station A (SA) and the cart is at SB you can press a call button in SA and the cart will come to you. Took some fun wiring it in and I'm sure I could make it better as it currently has two switches in each station (one to call one to go) so I shall refine that slightly. Plus none of the wires are visible, which in itself was a huge task.
God damn this game is so addictive when you really get into it.
God damn this game is so addictive when you really get into it.
I really need to get my Intartubes fixed (and get a better computer), I've started to learn wiring things up and making awesome minecart rides, but it is no fun when no one else can see. 
Also, sucks that someone has ruined the city again.
Also, sucks that someone has ruined the city again.
There has been a lot of research into using a mobile while driving and it comes out pretty badly. You get heavily distracted and reaction times go to pot. That includes using hands free devices. The human brain just cannot cope with that much data, you can only handle one or two tasks at once, operating the controls takes up one job, so you're left with watching the road (not pointing the car in the right direction, but actually watching) or listening to the phone call. What makes matters worse is if you have someone in the car and you approach a tricky situation they will shut up, someone on the phone won't see the danger unfolding and keep on gassing away.
Yet a lot of people do not seem to imagine much danger in using a mobile phone and will never consider it to be as dangerous as drink driving because "I am a good driver, I never take stupid risks".
Linky.
This little demo shows you how easy it is to get distracted. All you have to do is a little mental maths and hit space bar.
Yet a lot of people do not seem to imagine much danger in using a mobile phone and will never consider it to be as dangerous as drink driving because "I am a good driver, I never take stupid risks".
Linky.
This little demo shows you how easy it is to get distracted. All you have to do is a little mental maths and hit space bar.
That website has so many awesome items on it. My next 20 pay cheques will be spent there if I'm not careful.
Now maybe I have a filthy mind, but it sounds like you tried gaying it up and the resulting anal leakage forced you to change your sheets more often than you'd like.
So wrong, so very very wrong. But I still laughed.
I did it when I was learning too. But he'd just say "what is your left hand doing" or would start drumming his left hand on his lap. I can't see myself ever getting out of the habit because it comes so naturally to me. Even when I'm sat in a chair, I'd put my right arm on the arm rest, but place my left on my lap.
No, a modern car will die of rust before the engine starts to get leggy. In days of old due to less accurate build quality the motor will blow before the rest of the car is beyond economical repair.
You're taught to drive at 10 to 2 in the UK, which is alien. You have no real control of the wheel and the slightest bump on the front wheel deflects you away from your intended direction of travel.
When I was doing my driving test I got a minor because my left hand slipped down to my leg, he didn't notice it at first because I was changing gears a lot through town. It was only when we did a bit of spirited driving down a dual carriageway that he realised my hand hadn't come back up.
But I agree it is impossible to drive with two hands in the same place all of the time. I do a lot of long drives and I'd probably end up distracted by a lack of comfort and crash than I would by resting a hand on my leg.
That is my biggest shortcoming. Daftly I picked up the habit playing LFS. So when I drive my hands will start at 9:15, but my left hand will slowly slide down until it rests on my left leg and barely grasping the wheel at ~7. Then I realise I've done it and it goes right back to where it should be, then slowly, slowly slides back down onto my left leg.
It isn't just once piece though, since hitting about 99k bits have started breaking on a regular basis. Which I accepted as bits will wear out, but the bit of plastic above could easily of been made out of metal. If I had a Mk5 there is an aftermarket version which is metal for 20 notes, buying the plastic version from Ford is 13 notes. Plus thanks to how the pedal box is designed it is a massive pain in the arse to replace.
They are white goods now. Most cars will get sold after about 40k on the clock. Which is a nothing figure. A well maintained (serviced when required) modern engine can hit 200k+ without breaking a sweat. But the rest of the vehicle will never live that long. Fords are prolific for it. Would it really hurt to stick a couple of grand on the price tag and use good materials?
Oh wait, yes it would. Where is the profit margin in making a car that'll see you from cradle to grave?
Then these virtual racers didn't pay attention in race craft. They'd get black flagged for that, same with going the wrong way down a one way street.
What a stupid study.
[edit: And how does overtaking/accelerating fast mean you take risks? Sometimes safe driving requires a bit of both.]
It saddens me that you're correct. But all it does is ruins the companies reputation when guys with white collars can interfere with the build quality.
The little bit of plastic on the right is what my clutch quadrant should look like.
This is what it looks like on Vanessa as of 11am this morning.
What genius at Ford thought making the quadrant (or ratchet if you'd prefer) out of plastic was a good idea?
This is what it looks like on Vanessa as of 11am this morning.
What genius at Ford thought making the quadrant (or ratchet if you'd prefer) out of plastic was a good idea?
I was told by a doctor that if anyone else can hear your music with headphones in, it is too loud.
It is especially more damaging if you use earphones as the audio can get in, but can't get out, so just bounces around inside your ear causing damage. You suffer a similar problem if you don't put earplugs in correctly.
I am really, I didn't plan for the winter so didn't get suitable tyres and underestimated how bad it would get. I was told you never get cut off for more than a day. I was cut off for 4 weeks.
That photo was taken weeks after the snow had cleared everywhere else in the UK, once I got to Cropton (around 2-3 miles up the road) you wouldn't think there had been any snow at all.
Yes, because of where I live I got feet of snow, not millimetres. And it rendered the 4Runner useless. Partly because the tyres on it are all seasons and partly because it has open diffs.
After battling ice, snow and slushy ice (on foot because driving was neigh on impossible). I then had to climb this hill. Doesn't look much but it is a 16% gradient.
The only vehicle that could get down semi-safely it was the game keepers ATV. But then couldn't get back up. So had to go via the forest road which was hard packed snow, powdery snow and ice.
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG