Not just hogging the middle lane

anotherbaldrick

Strider590 wrote: »

This is basically a load of nonsense, it's primarily a list of things that get on certain peoples nerves.

For which you can now get a £100 on the spot fine and 3 points on your license

Strider590

Jack_Regan wrote: »

And if you get on the wrong persons nerve it will cost you.

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

For which you can now get a £100 on the spot fine and 3 points on your license

Yeaaah, but the biggest problem is it now allows even more scope for SARPs to drive about trying to enforce their own made up laws on other people.

rev_henry

This is all virtually meaningless as there are so few traffic police to enforce it now.

penthouse89

There are traffic plod all over where I live.

Will they enforce it? No. Should I hold it against them? No. Have they got time? Definitely not.

Kite2010

Lum wrote: »

The no wheels spins thing is going to be interesting given the amount of craptastic eco tyres on the road now.

I know there's a very very narrow range on my Mondeo where you can actually get traction, either side of this it's either stall or wheelspin. Gets even narrower if you need to steer while setting off.

The police will be out in force when the snow comes down, not to help out motorists but to fine then when they spin the wheels trying to get traction :rotfl:

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As for the new parts, nice idea, shame there isn't any police officers to enforce then.

Strider590

Kite2010 wrote: »

The police will be out in force when the snow comes down, not to help out motorists but to fine then when they spin the wheels trying to get traction :rotfl:

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As for the new parts, nice idea, shame there isn't any police officers to enforce then.

My GF had to get new tyres recently (I actually pushed her into it) because she was running cheap/nasty tyre's that would wheel spin even on a clear dry day. There's also one junction near me, which is always covered in grease/diesel, I nearly always get wheel spin at that point, in fact so does everyone else.

These new rules are a joke, they don't cater to things that cause a real problem, they just cater to things people moan about the most.

Joe_Horner

Strider590 wrote: »

These new rules are a joke, they don't cater to things that cause a real problem, they just cater to things people moan about the most.

So driving too close, cutting people up and pulling out when there isn't space to don't cause problems? Odd, I would have thought they'd account for the majority of accidents between them.

In fact, by definition, "driving too close" is a major factor in every single accident on the roads!

Lum

Strider590 wrote: »

My GF had to get new tyres recently (I actually pushed her into it) because she was running cheap/nasty tyre's that would wheel spin even on a clear dry day. There's also one junction near me, which is always covered in grease/diesel, I nearly always get wheel spin at that point, in fact so does everyone else.

This is the problem I have. Company car so I get no say in what they are replaced with. Got to be the ones that it originally left the factory with, and can't replace until below 2mm.

The one time I was able to encourage the tyre bloke to put a different brand on, Dunlop SP Sport something, it truly transformed the car, though given it still had eco tyres on the back, the rear end became amusingly tail happy for a front heavy FWD diesel. I'd probably get points for that now too.

Lum

Kite2010 wrote: »

The police will be out in force when the snow comes down, not to help out motorists but to fine then when they spin the wheels trying to get traction :rotfl:

Nah they'll just look for videos of stuck BMW drivers on youtube.

Good way to encourage folk to buy winter tyres though. "If you don't get these you'll get 3 points every time you lose traction"

I wonder if I'll get fined every time my private car auto-switches from RWD to 4WD mode? Maybe they can put a tacho-like device in there that sends me a ticket each time?

Jamie_Carter

patman99 wrote: »

Sometimes the middle lane is the place to stay. On my journey home, I join an A road on a 2 lane stretch. 4 miles down the road it becomes 3 lanes with the 3rd lane on the inside of the lane I am in.
As the majority (90%) of the traffic in this lane is purely using it to go up to the next junction, I stay in the 2nd lane until clear of the off ramp for the next junction & then pull in as I am clear of the local traffic.

Is this wrong ?. No. the average speed of the local traffic is 50mph. The average speed of the 2nd (middle) lane is 57mph. So my defense would be that I was overtaking.

So you wouldn't be doing anything wrong in that scenario.