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From: Conor on 16 Aug 2006 11:03 In article <44e21ea9$0$1861$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk>, DieSea says... > The only time I tailgate is when I'm in a queue and doing 5 miles an hour then its > 10 feet behind. > Yet you seem to think you're a good driver despite being a fully paid up member of the Middle Lane Owners Club. -- Conor "No trilogy should have more than four books" - Arthur C. Clarke
From: Conor on 16 Aug 2006 11:05 In article <1hk4pse.1glnztj1b7prgfN%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, SteveH says... > I think you'll find that *most* motorcyclists treat NSL signs as a 'GLF' > [1] sign, but will happily obey 30/40/50 mph limits. > My observation too although I've seen many obeying the NSL lately which has come as quite a shock. Maybe there's a fair few that are 3 points from a ban. -- Conor "No trilogy should have more than four books" - Arthur C. Clarke
From: Conor on 16 Aug 2006 11:05 In article <%ppEg.50277$Ca.27448(a)fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, Steve says... > Police dont use 2 way radios and so are covered by the regulations. 2-way > radios are so defined by the name, they send and recieve data/voice between > 2 radios, ie the ones you buy for your kids while out camping. > ROFLMAO...clueless. -- Conor "No trilogy should have more than four books" - Arthur C. Clarke
From: Simon Finnigan on 16 Aug 2006 11:08 MrBitsy wrote: > R. Mark Clayton wrote: >> "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:S66dnUVH7su3KnzZRVny2g(a)bt.com... >>> R. Mark Clayton wrote: >>>> "David Taylor" <davidt-news(a)yadt.co.uk> wrote in message >>>> news:slrnee3bjl.s06.davidt-news(a)outcold.yadt.co.uk... >>>>> On 2006-08-15, R. Mark Clayton <nospamclayton(a)btinternet.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Well they could always start by issuing themselves with FPN's >>>>>> whenever they >>>>>> use their push to talk half duplex personal radios while driving >>>>>> and it isn't an emergency - but oops I forgot it is one law for >>>>>> them and another law for the rest of us see:- >>>>> >>>>> Er, no. As you quoted below it is the same law for them and us. >>>>> >>>>> It is entirely legal for a police officer to use a two-way radio >>>>> whilst driving, just as it is entirely legal for _you_ to use a >>>>> two-way radio whilst driving. >>>> >>>> Unless it just happens to be a mobile phone. >>>> >>>> The upshot is that the police use two way half duplex radio >>>> (therefore you have to press to talk) all the time, whereas if you >>>> use your full duplex radio phone the very same police officer who >>>> has just PNC'ed your vehicle over the radio while following you >>>> will give you a ticket. >>> >>> And? >>> >> Hypocrisy brings the law into disrepute and leads to it not being >> respected. If a TC stops someone and tells them how dangerous it is >> to use their mobile when driving (while giving them a bill for 60), >> how seriously are they going to take this when they saw the TC in >> their mirror talking on his radio just a moment before they were >> pulled over? > > A good example of how ignorant so many drivers are. > > For your benefit; Mobile phone conversations have nothing to do with > the task at hand. Much brain power is taken up with images of the > conversation being discussed. Calls are constant and can take a great > deal of time. Apparently this ISN`T the main reason mobile calls take so much concentration, more than speaking to a passenger. A study I heard about (and this seems very believeable to me) reckoned that it`s because on a mobile conversation there are tiny bits missing. Tiny silences that the brain subconciously has to figure out what was said and meant. It`s this extra burden that causes the main problem, rather than the thinking about what to say side of the conversation > Two way radio conversation between police and control, are pre-learnt > short phrases. They are talking about the task in hand, so require > much less concentration. And they are trained to do both things at once, at high speed. An extreme example would be a fighter pilot (admittedly they get a tad more training than a traffic copper :-) ). They can handle many more sources of information at the same time than a non-trained person can.
From: Tony Raven on 16 Aug 2006 11:56
Simon Finnigan wrote on 16/08/2006 16:42 +0100: > > That`s much better than my reply. How can people be so stupid and > unobservant as to not notice an empty motorway lane to their left? Scary > scary scary!!!! > Not as scary as when they don't notice a full lane to their right and do the usual "give way I'm pulling out whether there is space or not" signal -- Tony "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci |