Safety camera partnership

[Huge]

*grin*

Me too.

[bert]

In message , Huge writes

[Andrew Gabriel]

Just under the front tyre...

Coloured cats-eyes didn't exist when I did my driving test.

I still remember one question I got slightly wrong. I was shown the

3, 2, 1 stripes on a green background, and asked what they are. I said 300, 200, and 100 yard countdown markers to a road junction. He said are just equally spaced, and not necessarily 100 yards apart (except the blue motorway ones which are always 100 yards apart), but he accepted my answer and said I got 100% on the highway code questions.

[Bob Eager]

Same here. Years ago, off to work and really probably not entirely awake!

45 in a 30....I was contrite and just got "don't do it again". And I haven't. Not there anyway.

[Bob Eager]

Interesting, that. Just had a look at the official road signs booklet and it says "about 100 yards" for both the motorway (blue/white) and other road (green/white) ones. But the white/red ones (for certain railways crossings) show equal divisions of distance from the first warning sign to the crossing itself.

[polygonum]

This doesn't make any real difference, the distances aren't that much different, but...

My memory said that for motorways the distances are metric (i.e. multiples of 100 metres rather than yards). But they are yards for other roads.

A rather less than wonderful website offers some possible backing for my memory - though only a little, if it is right I am still remembering wrongly. They suggest the distances are measured in yards but display units of yards.

[polygonum]

Of course, I meant:

They suggest the distances are measured in metres but display units of yards.

[Uncle Peter]

They have fixed places where there are more accidents. I almost never s= ee a van where the satnav hasn't told me about it first.

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What does a married man say after sex? Don't tell my wife.

[Uncle Peter]

Cop Cars tend to be covered in stripes. Unmarked ones drive suspiciousl= y.

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Why hasn't there ever been a woman on the moon? It doesn't need cleaning yet.

[Uncle Peter]

Nope. It's wrong to pick on someone speeding who will probably never cause an accident. The ones that drive badly tend to drive slower BECAUSE they're shit drivers.

[Bob Eager]

I always thought it was metres too. Until a few hours ago. But that *is* the official booklet! Guess should look at the legislation.

[Bob Eager]

Actually, the booklet says 'about 100 yards' so I wonder if it's actually metres...!

[dennis]

The new ones were 100m, the old ones 100yards so he was correct. I think they are all 100m now.

[dennis]

The traffic cars around here drive around with their cameras on record. If you do something they don't like you will be pulled over and given a stern talking too or a fine.

[tony sayer]

I don't think the hands free kit makes it that much better, its the part of your brain thats involved with the phone call thats pulling the "processing power" from the actual driving of the car.

However..

I spend a lot of my driving time alone by myself but when ever I have a passenger or two the conversation your are obliged to have takes a lot of the same attention off the driving process too.....

[dennis]

You have to learn not to allow the others to distract you. If they are you have to tell them to stop it or walk. Its the same with mobiles, you just stop taking any notice of the people if the road conditions need your attention.

[Uncle Peter]

I tend to behave when I see a traffic car. I've only ever been told off for not wearing a seatbelt and speeding.

[bert]

"Probably" but not "certainly" The vast majority of drivers - if not all - will think they will never probably cause an accident.

[bert]

When the first experimental ones were introduced on the A1 many years ago the spacings reduced as you approached the junction so even if you slowed down they gave you the impression you were going about the same speed causing you to slow down even more.

[tony sayer]

You married Dennis?, ever tried telling the MIL to shut up or walk;!?...