Learner drivers allowed on motorways after law change

[telectrix]

had it a few weeks ago. narrow road, dark, transit coming at me doing about 50, i was at around 30. smashed my driver's door mirror off. luckily, replacement was only £20 off ebay. i just hope his transit was a newish one with a £500 bill to fix his mirror.

 

[ruston]

@elsparko . 6 people killed on the road to where I live over the past years . Four of them were youths(in the past4 years) that lost control ,the other two were pensioners that were ploughed into by a defective tipper wagon

 

[elsparko]

Then you're in the wrong. What if it was a cow in the road, or a fallen tree? You are not driving to conditions. If you can't see round a corner far enough, so that someone stopped round the corner of it is going to cause you an issue you're driving too fast.

my 16 inch brake discs are more than capable of reacting, are the piddly little bits of tin for brakes on a 1,1 up to the same standard?

im fairly certain if there was a cow or a tree, id just stop/slow down and go around it.

if your reflexes are so bad you need to drive at 30mph on b roads then you should have license revoked.

 

[Bobster]

my 16 inch brake discs are more than capable of reacting, are the piddly little bits of tin for brakes on a 1,1 up to the same standard?

im fairly certain if there was a cow or a tree, id just stop/slow down and go around it.

if your reflexes are so bad you need to drive at 30mph on b roads then you should have license revoked.

Well Mr Mcrae, a slow moving car infront shouldn't bother you then. Just slam on going round every corner on B roads and go around them.

Most of the B roads near where I lived in the UK were single track with overgrown hedgerows either side. No visibility and nowhere to evade. 30mph in those places was plenty.

 

[elsparko]

Well Mr Mcrae, a slow moving car infront shouldn't bother you then. Just slam on going round every corner on B roads and go around them.

Most of the B roads near where I lived in the UK were single track with overgrown hedgerows either side. No visibility and nowhere to evade. 30mph in those places was plenty.

thats a different type of b road, im meaning the two lane b roads

the roads up through the the highlands, you can see for miles, why restrict cars to 60mph on those roads, technology has improved since the speed limits were introduced, so shirley adapt them with the technology? obviously dont go speeding around residential areas, but country roads , why bloody not..

 

[ruston]

@Rob And as Tel has alluded to , a massive tractor parked between the bends with the pronged hay lifter in the down position while he is out locking the gate.

 

[elsparko]

i dont want to share the road with people who spend less than £200 on a car and think that our cars should be treated equally.

 

[elsparko]

if you have the ability to maintain a car that is far above average in capability, then the speed limit should be lifted

stopping distance charts are based on the average rusty bucket that single mums are driving around in

i could probably crash my car into a tree at 100 and have a very good chance of survival, so long as i wear the belt and dont hit it sideways i should make it out alive.

 

[Andy78]

i could probably crash my car into a tree at 100 and have a very good chance of survival, so long as i wear the belt and dont hit it sideways i should make it out alive.

Let us know how you get on, and don't forget to video it.

 

[ruston]

People who crash into trees very rarely survive . It was trees that claimed the lives of the victims in my previous post.