Re Boot the Router!

t-tony

t-tony

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There are several ways to do this, however this is how you do it using a BMW 1 Series.
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A little heavy handed really, when there was a lock and key.
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At least there was a Rainbow.
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Tony.
 
I had a word with the BT Openreach engineer who happened across this incident and stopped to report it and he said that unit only serviced the retirement community across the road from us.

Caused by someone pulling out in front of another car. They'll be needing a bloody 20MPH limit here after this.:mad:

Tony.
 
People just pulling out is one of my pet peeves. When did people loose the ability to judge the speed of oncoming traffic ? Looking at the impact line on the top of the wheel its well above the bumper level of another 1 series, so it wasnt a small vehicle that hit it. We have a small junction at the top of the hill that has periodic accidents when someone pulls out in to oncoming traffic. It used to be a perfectly reasonable 50 zone, currently down to 30, but there have been 2 more since that change.
 
Speed isn't the problem Alex, it's drivers attitude and common sense. As you rightly say, if someone cannot judge speed and distance they should not be driving.

Tony.
 
Come to Bristol if you’d like some “attitude “ driving, hit the nail on the head Tony, everyone need’s to be there before you!
 
When teaching driver training on cars and HGVs I taught my pupils to try counting in seconds to how long the on coming traffic takes to get to you when you've decided NOT to pull out. Then you count the seconds it takes to get out safely without burning rubber. After doing this for the first and second week (5 day week training ) they had a lot more idea how to judge speed, although if someone is driving miles over the limit it does tend to make it harder obviously. All my children were taught this way by me and so far I can travel with them without moving my right foot at all.( Well most of the time anyway)
Some new drivers have a natural ability to judge speed but I found it quite rare. I can't remember how I was taught to get out into moving traffic but think I had to learn the hard way back in the sixties. Most of us elderly drivers on here have probably learnt over a considerable time and it's very easy to criticise the new young drivers who just haven't had the time served experience as we have. I'm personally always ready for someone waiting to pull out as this reduces the thinking time to nil. Not much help if they haven't seen you admitted but I'm usually off the gas if they're not looking my way at all. This used to be called the art of defensive driving, but as time has gone by it's now the only means of driving safely. I rest my case.
 
I get what you're saying Roy. The guy who taught me to drive (to pass the test that is) said treat every other driver on the road as an idiot back in the 70s and to be fair it has stood me in good stead over the years.
Biggest reason people can't judge speed, I think, is because people only have a quick glance instead of a "good look" before pulling out. Many times I've had someone pull out in front of me when the road behind was totally clear, ie. they just had to be in front of me.
Maybe that's the problem.

Tony.
 
t-tony said:
...The guy who taught me to drive (to pass the test that is) said treat every other driver on the road as an idiot back in the 70s and to be fair it has stood me in good stead over the years...
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Same advice given to me back in the day too:thumbsup:
 
Agree with you Tony. That was why they started to teach defensive driving. Basically your driving for everybody else, you have to be so alert now that truthfully you shouldn't even be conversing with your passengers and if you are and not having to ask them to repeat every now and again then your consentration has been broken long enough for you to have consequences. This was taught to me by a advanced driving examiner. Must admit it's pretty well impossible to do especially when my wife says look at this and that when I'm driving, most times I just say sorry missed that. Anyone IMO who drives and converses plus looks at their passenger for more than a milli second needs to think hard about wether they should carry on driving. The worst signal sent out to young drivers are the films where they look at the passenger and talk for seconds, most if not all scenes are filmed with the vehicle on a trailer, just hope the youngsters realise.
Funny how nearly every time I go out I experience at least one more terrible manoeuvre by an idiot which tells me even though I think Ive seen it all that's totally not the case. I believe you cannot drive so well you'll never have an accident cos the idiots keep coming up with yet something totally new, all you really can do IMOO is try and concentrate 100% of the time, the faster you drive the better your concentration has to be or you'll end up meeting your maker before you really intended. I've always driven as fast as conditions will allow and had some near misses but I believe near misses have slowed me down that much that I rarely now go really fast even on the motorways I'm sticking to the limit more and more as the driving of others deteriorates to the point that it's impossible to speed safely, if it ever was.????
Just to finish off, I taught that if you leave a gap big enough someone will take it. In other words you've invited someone to take the chance, so in built up areas I close up just enough to make it very hard for someone to pull out on me, if you can't or don't want to close the gab then you must be prepared to lose it, now that's defo not rocket science is it.
 
Spot on my mate. Something I was told on my speed awareness course was that if you have someone one your boot lid, let them go. Chances are you'll catch up with them soon enough.

Tony.
 
Tailgaters are a real menace. I have a mate who after being tailgated for more than a couple of hundred yrds waits for the on coming traffic to get heavy then indicates and pulls up leaving his 4way indicators going and no room for tailgater to get past untill traffic allows, if he gets honked too much he releases the bonnet and gets out to lift it. He says it saves him having to argue. Not sure if I could actually do that but would pull up to make it easier for tailgater to pass, better than getting all steamed up having them behind. He also makes it hard for tailgaters to get onto roundabouts by waiting to go on so it's no longer safe for tailgater who gets caught at giveway line. Not sure if that's really helpful to others behind though. Think a sign on rear saying "Tailgaters please pass when safe to do so" or " Tailgaters your on cam". Lol
 
When I have my roof downand someone gets too close I point to the rear facing camera with my left arm. They soon get the message. Even a dummy camera would work.

Tony.
 
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