Two hours of heavy snow fall, and the bad drivers come out in force!
Friday morning we had heavy snow in this part of the world, which started around 7:30am in the morning. Police had warned people who didnt have to drive, to stay at home. What they really meant was "those who can't drive very well, please keep out the way of people who can!"
It had barely started settling on the roads and people were doing 5mph on a 60mph road. Yes you should be careful, but there wasn't a chance of any slipping at this point. 30mph was safe and practical. As the snow starting settling heavily on the roads, drivers who were freaked out about the white stuff starting doing 2mph, and stopping on hills when their wheels slipped slightly - and then not being able to get going again. This lead to lorrys and busses then getting stuck behind them, and the road network started shutting down.
If these people could actually drive, and knew how to handle their cars - they'd be confident about going a little faster, and carrying on when the roads starting to get slippery - enough to keep going and power up the hills.
Today i drove down a B road which hadnt been gritted, and was still quite icy. If you know how to drive, you can do 20mph, and still keep complete control of your car. In front of me was someone in a 4 wheel drive, and they were doing 2 mph!! Whats the point of you having a 4 wheel drive if you're going to do that?
Part of the driving test should be driving in icy conditions. Those who fail to drive at least 10mph and keep the car on the road should not get their license. As we get more and more snowy weather in the UK, this serously needs to be considered. No need to spend millions on new gritting trucks, just get the people who cant drive off the bloody road when it snows!
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Sticking to the speed limit does not make you a good driver
Last night I had a Ford Galaxy people carrier pull in front of me out of a petrol station. This annoyed me a little, but i decided top give the driver the benefit of the doubt.
However, my frustration became increasinly heightened as the driver was keen on doing 5 mph, and sometimes 10mph below the speed limit. There was no need for this, the roads were dry, there was very limited traffic about.
Next we came upto a roundabout, and they pulled into the lane to go left, rather than ahead. Thinking what was about to happen, i stayed back - and indeed they saw their mistake and pulled back into my lane to go straight ahead.
Again, they were doing 20mph in a 30mph limit, and I was starting to wonder how I was going to be able to get away from this driver before there was a simply monumental accident. Next we came to a larage roundabout which was busy. This time in the right lane to go straight ahead of right, but with no signal they veered off to the right. A car coming the other direction wanting to go straight ahead had not expected them to do this due to lack of signal, and had to slam on their brakes to avooid a colision. The driver who I had been following made no reaction.
So before you judge someone who going too fast on the roads, please remember for every 1 of those peoploe who may be oing 1mph over the speed limit, there is someone who thinks they are the safest driver ever because they stick well under the speed limit. Not true!
However, my frustration became increasinly heightened as the driver was keen on doing 5 mph, and sometimes 10mph below the speed limit. There was no need for this, the roads were dry, there was very limited traffic about.
Next we came upto a roundabout, and they pulled into the lane to go left, rather than ahead. Thinking what was about to happen, i stayed back - and indeed they saw their mistake and pulled back into my lane to go straight ahead.
Again, they were doing 20mph in a 30mph limit, and I was starting to wonder how I was going to be able to get away from this driver before there was a simply monumental accident. Next we came to a larage roundabout which was busy. This time in the right lane to go straight ahead of right, but with no signal they veered off to the right. A car coming the other direction wanting to go straight ahead had not expected them to do this due to lack of signal, and had to slam on their brakes to avooid a colision. The driver who I had been following made no reaction.
So before you judge someone who going too fast on the roads, please remember for every 1 of those peoploe who may be oing 1mph over the speed limit, there is someone who thinks they are the safest driver ever because they stick well under the speed limit. Not true!
Friday, 28 December 2012
Power Steering, causes deaths
The Subject of this post, may cause you to think "WTF is this douche bag on now?" but wait a moment, and you'll realise i'm actually talking some sense... this time.
Think about how easy it is to steer a car these days, how mostly you can turn your car with one hand, or even just a couple of fingers. Now think what possibilities that opens up for use of your other hand / fingers! Texting, fiddling with your clothes, fiddling with the passengers clothes!! Changing a CD. The possibilities are endless, and if thought about enough, probably worrying.
Now think about whether all those things are possible if you had no power steering? Believe me, they are not. Without power steering you need both hands on the wheel at all times, unless changing gear! Otherwise you will crash, and spectacularly probably. Whilst this may be less fun, and you wont be able to play with your passengers breasts whilst driving - this means that you are concentrating a lot more on actually steering the car, and therefore less accidents will occur. No longer would accidents be caused by people texting / facebooking whilst driving!
A crazy idea?... or some element of truth here!?
Think about how easy it is to steer a car these days, how mostly you can turn your car with one hand, or even just a couple of fingers. Now think what possibilities that opens up for use of your other hand / fingers! Texting, fiddling with your clothes, fiddling with the passengers clothes!! Changing a CD. The possibilities are endless, and if thought about enough, probably worrying.
Now think about whether all those things are possible if you had no power steering? Believe me, they are not. Without power steering you need both hands on the wheel at all times, unless changing gear! Otherwise you will crash, and spectacularly probably. Whilst this may be less fun, and you wont be able to play with your passengers breasts whilst driving - this means that you are concentrating a lot more on actually steering the car, and therefore less accidents will occur. No longer would accidents be caused by people texting / facebooking whilst driving!
A crazy idea?... or some element of truth here!?
Sunday, 4 November 2012
The Nissan Leaf - What's the point?
Recently there's been a lot of adverts for the Nissan Leaf - one today stated it was "the most popular 100% electric car" So that means theyve sold two then!?
Fair play to the people who thought of, and designed this car - but its too early for anyone to actualy use an all electric car, unless all they do is drive 1 mile a week to the shops, in which case, they should be walking. There's no infrastructure of electrical charging stations to be able to drive one on a day to day basis. The batteries are also very expesive, and if they are looked after carefully, will last a max of 5 years. Look after the battery in a bad way, it could last you 1 year - and then its about £5k to replace it. So who are the two people that bought this car? A tax man, and someone who lives in the woods all year round?
Fair play to the people who thought of, and designed this car - but its too early for anyone to actualy use an all electric car, unless all they do is drive 1 mile a week to the shops, in which case, they should be walking. There's no infrastructure of electrical charging stations to be able to drive one on a day to day basis. The batteries are also very expesive, and if they are looked after carefully, will last a max of 5 years. Look after the battery in a bad way, it could last you 1 year - and then its about £5k to replace it. So who are the two people that bought this car? A tax man, and someone who lives in the woods all year round?
Saturday, 27 October 2012
Deckchair holiday by the motorway. No thanks!
Most people in their 70's would opt for a deckchair on a sandy beach in Eastbourne or Bournemouth given the choice of a break away from watching Gardeners World on TV, and counting their marbles. Apparently not all of them though. On the top of a motorway bridge the other way were a couple in their 70s, camped out on deckchairs, in yellow vests. The weather was cold and foggy, but the man was in shorts.
Presumably therefore, theyd run out of marbles to count and decided they needed a change! I'm guessing they were counting cars for some random project, but 8 hours on, when i returned along this road they were still there... and still in shorts. Surely they must have something better to do?
Presumably therefore, theyd run out of marbles to count and decided they needed a change! I'm guessing they were counting cars for some random project, but 8 hours on, when i returned along this road they were still there... and still in shorts. Surely they must have something better to do?
Firework chase
Last night i had a near miss with a firework going off in my face. The car in front decided it was a great idea to light a firework and throw it out the window. My window was open, and it came into my car and landed on the passenger seat. Grabbing hold of it, and throwing it back out - it then exploded with a bang. A near miss, for sure!
Now, understandably i was a little bit unhappy about this. So decided to follow the car in front who'd just done this to me. They knew i was unhappy and onto them, so floored it onto the motorway. their crappy 1.4l was no match for my 2.0l - so quickly caught up with them - they came off at the next exit, thinking i hadnt seen them trying to make me think they were going to stay on the motorway. Coming up behind them at the bottom of the slip road, they stopped at some traffic lights which were red. They panicked, threw two boxes of fireworks out the window and legged it through the red light. I felt happy knowing i'd just freaked them out enough, to think twice about doing it again - but not happy in that if i hadn't been as quick thinking, i could have had serious injuries / burns.
Now, understandably i was a little bit unhappy about this. So decided to follow the car in front who'd just done this to me. They knew i was unhappy and onto them, so floored it onto the motorway. their crappy 1.4l was no match for my 2.0l - so quickly caught up with them - they came off at the next exit, thinking i hadnt seen them trying to make me think they were going to stay on the motorway. Coming up behind them at the bottom of the slip road, they stopped at some traffic lights which were red. They panicked, threw two boxes of fireworks out the window and legged it through the red light. I felt happy knowing i'd just freaked them out enough, to think twice about doing it again - but not happy in that if i hadn't been as quick thinking, i could have had serious injuries / burns.
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Cars on fire, but i'm not stopping for anything!
Now if you could smell something burning, saw smoke and flames coming out of your cars bonnet - You'd stop, get out the car and call 999? Wouldnt you!?
Apparently some people dont have these thoughts! Yesterday upon exiting a motorway I came up to a VW Golf that had smoke pouring out of it, and flames starting to appear from the side of the bonnet. There was a serious smell of melting plastic - so unless the car is one of those new eco cars that runs on melted plastic, i'm surprised it was still actually running. But running it was, and the driver was not giving up. "if i drive faster, i'll put the fire out" is the only thing i can presume they were thinking!
People were flashing their lights, hooting their horns, trying to make the driver stop, but still they kept on! 2 miles down the road and the smoke was getting more and more thick, it was getting hard to actually see the road in front!
It wasnt til someone coming the other way actually pulled in front of them and blocked them from driving any further, that they stopped! We all got out our cars to pull the person out the car. Expecting a little old lady who didnt know what to do, we were surprised to see a 30 year old man, who should have known better!
"what were you thinking" someone asked. "i dont know, i thought i could get home!" the man replied. Well done, so once you were home what were you expecting to do? Get a bucket and put it out!?
soon enough the firemen came and put it out - and that was the end of the fun time!
It left me thinking though that there should be an IQ test when it comes to the driving test, people should be asked questions such as "how do you spell .spanner" Anyone who fails should be marked as someone never to be allowed to own, drive, or be near a car!
Apparently some people dont have these thoughts! Yesterday upon exiting a motorway I came up to a VW Golf that had smoke pouring out of it, and flames starting to appear from the side of the bonnet. There was a serious smell of melting plastic - so unless the car is one of those new eco cars that runs on melted plastic, i'm surprised it was still actually running. But running it was, and the driver was not giving up. "if i drive faster, i'll put the fire out" is the only thing i can presume they were thinking!
People were flashing their lights, hooting their horns, trying to make the driver stop, but still they kept on! 2 miles down the road and the smoke was getting more and more thick, it was getting hard to actually see the road in front!
It wasnt til someone coming the other way actually pulled in front of them and blocked them from driving any further, that they stopped! We all got out our cars to pull the person out the car. Expecting a little old lady who didnt know what to do, we were surprised to see a 30 year old man, who should have known better!
"what were you thinking" someone asked. "i dont know, i thought i could get home!" the man replied. Well done, so once you were home what were you expecting to do? Get a bucket and put it out!?
soon enough the firemen came and put it out - and that was the end of the fun time!
It left me thinking though that there should be an IQ test when it comes to the driving test, people should be asked questions such as "how do you spell .spanner" Anyone who fails should be marked as someone never to be allowed to own, drive, or be near a car!
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Campervans. Get a proper car!
Recently i've been made aware of a select group of people who seem to think that campervans are a cool thing to own.
I dont think that this has somehow be classed as "cool." These campervans are simply nothing more than an old van, with a window cut in the side and an old matress that smells of wee inside. The type of people who think these are cool, are usually over 40, eithet teachers, or policemen and have nothing else to do but drive around thinking they're in their 20's and 30's again! Sometime's theyve even wasted their time by painting things on the side of them to in a bid to look even more cooler. It just draws attention to the fact they're being a tw@!
Why don't you grow up and get a proper car? If you want to go away and stay somewhere overnight you dont have to sleep in a van, there's a thing called a hotel. Here you can sleep somewhere where the matress doesnt smell of urine (unless its the Plymouth Travellodge) and where you might actually be treated like a respected person, rather than an old person, trying to relive their youth, and acting like a tramp!
I dont think that this has somehow be classed as "cool." These campervans are simply nothing more than an old van, with a window cut in the side and an old matress that smells of wee inside. The type of people who think these are cool, are usually over 40, eithet teachers, or policemen and have nothing else to do but drive around thinking they're in their 20's and 30's again! Sometime's theyve even wasted their time by painting things on the side of them to in a bid to look even more cooler. It just draws attention to the fact they're being a tw@!
Why don't you grow up and get a proper car? If you want to go away and stay somewhere overnight you dont have to sleep in a van, there's a thing called a hotel. Here you can sleep somewhere where the matress doesnt smell of urine (unless its the Plymouth Travellodge) and where you might actually be treated like a respected person, rather than an old person, trying to relive their youth, and acting like a tramp!
Saturday, 2 June 2012
Greased Lightning - Showroom Shine Review
A few months ago whilst I was washing my car in the usual way. You know, water, car shampoo, sponge, and polish. An old guy who lives down the road decided to chat to me and tell me all about some new car wash stuff that you just sprayed on, and wiped off. I immediately thought he'd been at the whiskey, and was spouting rubbish.
However, i then have an investigate on the internet and discovered that the product he was talking about "Greased Lighting, Showroom Shine" was actually quite a hit! So i decided to trust his adhoc review, and give it ago.
I bought it from the LivingTV website, for £19.99 - which came with two micro fibre cloths. I've just finished using it and i am pretty impressed with it!
All you do is spray it on the car, wipe it over with one cloth, and then immediately wipe it off with another cloth. It's easy, and it does remove light dirt, and give the car a shine with ease. just as it says!
It does say that it removes road grime, but this isn't completely true. I would recommend washing any dried on bugs, and road grime off first before using this. Also not recommended to put on the windscreen. It does work to clean plastic, but you need to wipe it off immediately to stop it drying too much, otherwise you will get white marks on it! If you follow the above, then you will be pleasantly impressed!
Here's some pics of our cars after finishing using the product:
However, i then have an investigate on the internet and discovered that the product he was talking about "Greased Lighting, Showroom Shine" was actually quite a hit! So i decided to trust his adhoc review, and give it ago.
I bought it from the LivingTV website, for £19.99 - which came with two micro fibre cloths. I've just finished using it and i am pretty impressed with it!
All you do is spray it on the car, wipe it over with one cloth, and then immediately wipe it off with another cloth. It's easy, and it does remove light dirt, and give the car a shine with ease. just as it says!
It does say that it removes road grime, but this isn't completely true. I would recommend washing any dried on bugs, and road grime off first before using this. Also not recommended to put on the windscreen. It does work to clean plastic, but you need to wipe it off immediately to stop it drying too much, otherwise you will get white marks on it! If you follow the above, then you will be pleasantly impressed!
Here's some pics of our cars after finishing using the product:
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