Part P government review 2010/11

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Depends which side of the claim you're on, I suppose. And whether the insured is then liable for any excess awarded by a court over the maximum.

[John Rumm]

How would a camera detect you doing 27mph in a 30mph zone? 27mph might be legal, but depending on the circumstances could be inappropriate.

[John Rumm]

How about abolishing speed limits altogether and compulsory insurance and seatbelts, but mandating that all vehicles are fitted with an 8" long sharpened steel spike protruding from the centre of the steering wheel ;-)

[John Rumm]

As surveys have frequently found, most drivers believe their driving to be better than average.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Not me. I *know* mine is. ;-)

[Robin]

So you are also going to change the law so that it is the *car* which is insured, for any driver, rather than the driver? If so that's a minor little detail you forgot to mention. (As mentioned elsewhere in this thread that is the approach used in some states - AIUI often but not always with insurance confined to personal injury and associated with statutory provision for "no fault" claims.)

[dennis]

Where did I say they detected all inappropriate speed? They only detect inappropriate speed does include exceeding the limit which is defined as being inappropriate.

[polygonum]

In one country where I had a car, it was the car that was insured - and depended on number of cylinders. More cylinders = more expensive.

Not sure how they handled rotary engines or gas turbines or nuclear power plants or batteries...

[dennis]

As long as you have the airbag underneath it that would be OK. How would you stop criminals fitting a cork?

[Tim Lamb]

Guilty!

Admittedly, I was only doing 55 in a 60 limit and encountered a 4/4 radiator grill in my mirror.

Knowing the next 7 miles to be a mix of 30's, 40's and the radiator grill detail was becoming more apparent at the lower speeds, I waited for a straight stretch with no oncoming traffic and stopped to let the idiot by.

Clearly, impatience is not an aid to thought as the driver pulled up behind me:-)

I am much too old to accelerate when overtaken.

regards

[Huge]

As it happens, so do I. But then, that's what my IAM Observer told me (*), and at the age of, well, a lot, I'm still having lessons. (+)

(* This is a self-selection error. What he actually said was that most people who seek out the IAM are already better drivers than average.)

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[ARWadsworth]

Whooosh.

[Windmill]

I still remember the car which accelerated hard down a hill in the city when the road was covered in snow, packed snow, and ice. Towards another red light not far away at the foot. He probably never exceeded 30mph (might have been spinning his wheels, which would explain the noise), and he got away with it that time, but it was complete idiocy. He might have killed someone in the cars waiting at the light.

OTOH a year or so back, I was going down a hill on an empty country road with my foot lightly on the brake, when a radar-controlled warning sign started to flash, signifying that I was exceeding 30mph.

Twaddle.

[Windmill]

They're a long way down that road already.

I think it was Larry Niven who imagined a future society where organs for transplant were in very short supply, so the legislators had enough public support to make exceeding the speed limit, parking illegally, or going through a red light, punishable by summary donation of all organs.

And if you bang people into jail for drug offences which wouldn't even have been an offence in 1900, especially when even the government experts say it's balls, you're pretty much guaranteed to destroy at least one life. I suppose there are people who relish the thought.

[ARWadsworth]

I would not consider any of those as dangerous as an installation that has no main earth, or is wired as a TT supply with no RCD. Well maybe the shower, but I would soon expect the flex to melt and trip the MCB.

[ARWadsworth]

They can put lard on ryvita.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "the_constructor" saying something like:

We already have McCain's micro chips.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home" saying something like:

And the right sort of control freaks in charge. Own up, Dennis, you'd love it, wouldn't you? (oh, beat me, Nursie). Until you fell foul of the law/control-freakery and then we'd have to read your moans. Actually, no, we wouldn't, would we? Because you never actually admit to doing anything wrong or being caught out.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No dennis, its defined as being illegal.

[dennis]

I seldom accelerate when being overtaken, its too hard to move the thumb to the +button on the cruise control and the right foot is over the brake in case the driver overtaking is a nutter. Of course there are idiots that think you accelerate as they slow down when the wind hits them. Or even pull out into the outside lane on a left hand bend and have father to travel.

And of course you do tend to hit the resume button after having to slow down because of the idiot tailgating you. Not that an astra in 5th is going to accelerate very quickly.