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From: ChelseaTractorMan on 4 May 2010 05:29 On Sun, 02 May 2010 22:52:21 +0100, MrBitsy <ray.keattch(a)infinity.com> wrote: >> The solution is to blast him with a machine gun and send him off the >> road - permanently. > >Oh dear! ask a silly question, get a silly answer. -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 4 May 2010 05:30 On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:39:40 +0100, MrBitsy <ray.keattch(a)infinity.com> wrote: >If you are bored, stop replying to the ruddy messages! I was waiting for you to answer my questions re the *current* thread. -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 4 May 2010 05:38 On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:31:54 +0100, MrBitsy <ray.keattch(a)infinity.com> wrote: >Driving can be dangerous. Acts of god are often not be foreseen. Your >scenario had many hazards, including a car driving unusually slowly >approaching a junction and 'split' - a clear sign of indecision. only with the benefit of hindsight and conflating two things into one, where are your escape routes and other things I could have done in the *current* thread? -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 4 May 2010 05:49 On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:39:40 +0100, MrBitsy <ray.keattch(a)infinity.com> wrote: >As I said, from your description of the incident, my mind was thinking >this guy is going right, when I was half way through reading it. as would anybody, including me. You are reading an account of what is obviously going to be a problem situation, thats why you and I are not world class comics. However, when on the road everybody passes cars on the motorway in the next lane, they do so even more readily when they indicate left. The point of the first threads was "look out, theres idiots about" and the second "look out, theres bad road design about" and to have a rant. You seem to think I cannot handle situations because I happen to have posted about them. On the subject of "escape routes" you raised, how many typical situations have viable escape routes? -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: MrBitsy on 4 May 2010 09:49
On 04/05/2010 10:38, ChelseaTractorMan wrote: > On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:31:54 +0100, MrBitsy<ray.keattch(a)infinity.com> > wrote: > > >> Driving can be dangerous. Acts of god are often not be foreseen. Your >> scenario had many hazards, including a car driving unusually slowly >> approaching a junction and 'split' - a clear sign of indecision. >> > only with the benefit of hindsight No, no no! ANTICIPATION - you observe an unusually slow car approaching a junction, and you note as 'split and several lorries. From this you anticipate what may happen if you place yourself alongside this car. You conclude it will be dangerous to be alongside it, if it decides to go right, so you plan on not being alongside it. Your more dangerous plan was to have your nearest near miss you have ever had, while using half of lane three to avoid him. > and conflating two things into one, > where are your escape routes and other things I could have done in the > *current* thread? > As you said, allow a gap to develop ahead to allow for the car ahead to slow as it joins the main carriageway. If you are worried about the tailgating behind, allow even more gap ahead so you can 'drive' for the person behind. The important bit is - if you find this junction causes you problems, your driving could use some finesse. -- MrBitsy |