Interesting, although I'm not looking a a sports car.
It is possible the feature is disabled in UK spec cars- brochures are not always fully tailored to the UK.
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I am not, I'm just having a conversation. Why is it stupid to speed up people who are incapable of driving at a decent speed? Clearly they must be short of fuel, so I'm doing them a favour.
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The two of us couldn't be more different. You're not very clever are you?
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Nar, Meanie is I think a Merkin from alt.home.repair. JWS aka Peter Hucker etc, etc etc cross posted/trolled there hoping to get attention for his nightly jack off.
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I use the opposite technique, I pretend to be nice and apologetic and innocent. Cops fall for it every time. In Scotland if you antagonise them they give you more tickets. I once got away with: faulty handbrake, bald tyre, soft tyre, split tyre (3 different tyres), missing (completely) exhaust, and 95mph in a 70mph limit.
Just disable it permanently. Mine is just a light, so I just painted over it. If it went ding I'd remove the dinger or short the switch in the belt clip. If you don't want to go to that much trouble, you can buy for a couple of dollars on Ebay a seatbelt warning remover. It's just a seatbelt clip with no belt on it. Leave it in the clip all the time and the car won't know any better. Big Brother is easy to fool.
Anything which only endangers yourself should never be against the law. Only you can decide the risks to take with your own life.
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No, I asked a question. That's what newsgroups are for. And unlike you I don't follow people around replying to every post they make. Has your wife locked you in the computer room again? Is she watching X Factor or something and you're trying to escape?
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Then there's no reason for expensive cars to be going slow. Poor people don't have BMWs.
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That makes sense. But making a (not very urgent sounding) "dong!" isn't going to help the driver avoid the pedestrian.
Mind you, should we avoid pedestrians that crossed without looking? All we're doing there is preserving defective genes.
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Not sure what you mean.
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Shocking.....I agree with you.
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If somebody is 10ft from my bumper I have to be sure I can slow _gently_ because if I don't he'll hit me. So I have to leave a bigger gap.
Andy
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What happens behind you doesn't matter. The front of a car is a lot weaker than the back.
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You've also managed to fool someone into thinking you're me. How worrying is that?
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I expect we'll see Mr Swordfish on those candid TV shows, having decided to bump some old codger along in the outside lane. With, unbeknownst to him, a plain clothes cop car + camera just behind.
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Old codgers never make it to the outside lane, they're too damn slow and live in the loser lane on the left.
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Yeah, havent noticed anyone howling much anymore.
Sure, but I'd still prefer to have them for their advantages.
Shouldn't be hard to make them fail safe.
Its more a tradition in that area with the new players feeling the need to offer a longer warranty to attract people away from the old manufactures, most obviously with Hyundai and now Kia doing the longer ones.
Or they accept the cost to increase market share when they have a decent reliable product.
I was quite surprised that my Hyundai didn't have even a single warranty claim in 5 years and still hasn't had any failures in 10 now.
The Golf before it, also bought new, was nothing like that.
Yeah, there will always be some complete duds in any job.
Presumably he realises that he's hopeless.
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I think "the dullest blade in the drawer" is saying he drives motorcycles. Kinda difficult for someone so off balance, methinks.
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You need to run "spagetti junction" on a daily basis.
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We've got roundabouts in Watrloo Region, and they are no panacea. Full cloverleafs work better, but they take more space. If you take the eastbound instead of the westbould on well marked interchanges such as are common here, you are driving distracted.
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Your comment to him was dead on. So much time has passed and they failed to see the difference. He isn't very clever.