Confrontation with reckless driver

Nodding_Donkey

photome wrote: »

Why is everyone feeding the troll

I've stopped now I know he's cutting and pasting rubbish from Yahoo answers pmsl.

Car_54

darkmatter101 wrote: »

ky.

I remember on one occasion when I was merging onto a motorway and some stupid Fiesta (revving with all its might) tried overtaking me. I was not even trying to accelerate, just leisurely gaining speed from 2-3k RPM and that Fiesta still couldn't overtake me. I ended up have to brake to that it could overtake. And this is not the first time this has happened.

"If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you."

Highway Code, Rule 168.

There must be another rule that exempts !!!!!!-heads with BMWs, but I can't find it.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Some sh1te. Blah blah blah...
Before you try to argue (or debate however you please) please try to justify or at least construct your argument properly.

Before you try to sound clever by copying and pasting someone else's knowledge, at least try to disguise the source of your answer:


https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110403213230AAU5NdG


Or are you going to try and tell us you wrote that originally?


On a final note, since I do not wish to feed the troll further, may I just re-state that you are, in fact, an imbecile.

Richard53

And even Yahoo can't get it right:

During a pistons travels during one crank rotation it is supplying power for 90 degrees of a 360 degree movement.

Unless I am very much mistaken, the piston is 'supplying power' (well, not quite, but never mind) for a bit less than 180 degrees of a 720 degree rotation. Mathematically it's the same, but in engineering terms it is not.

darkmatter101

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

Before you try to sound clever by copying and pasting someone else's knowledge, at least try to disguise the source of your answer:


https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110403213230AAU5NdG


Or are you going to try and tell us you wrote that originally?


On a final note, since I do not wish to feed the troll further, may I just re-state that you are, in fact, an imbecile.

Well whoever wrote that the RX8 has a displacement of 1300cc isn't technically correct and I knew this. Why reiterate knowledge when it can be copied.

BeenThroughItAll

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Well whoever wrote that the RX8 has a displacement of 1300cc isn't technically correct and I knew this. Why reiterate knowledge when it can be copied.

Acknowledge your sources in future then, rather than trying to pass off other people's knowledge as your own. You're merely displaying your own ignorance in doing so.

Joe_Horner

darkmatter101 wrote: »

Well whoever wrote that the RX8 has a displacement of 1300cc isn't technically correct and I knew this. Why reiterate knowledge when it can be copied.

Because it shows that you actually understand what you're talking about. Anyone can copy and paste, even if they misunderstand what they're pasting.

For example, it's technically perfectly acceptable to say that the RX8 has a displacement of 1300cc because that is the swept volume per crank revolution, which is the standard definition of displacement.

The equivalent displacement is usually considered twice that because a (single rotor) Wankel engine fires once per revolution instead of once every two revolutions as a 4 stroke piston engine would. The idea of equivalent displacement started with tax purposes and racing regulations - an engine firing twice as often is an unfair advantage on the track.

But, using that logic, 2 stroke piston engines should also be rated at twice their actual displacement because they also fire once per crank revolution. So you should be calling all those 50cc mopeds 100cc.

I'm guessing you don't do that?

Richard53

Joe_Horner wrote: »

But, using that logic, 2 stroke piston engines should also be rated at twice their actual displacement because they also fire once per crank revolution. So you should be calling all those 50cc mopeds 100cc.

Good point.

almillar

They were only classed as a 2.6 because at the time road tax was calculated on engine size and the treasury saw a way to stiff the owners

Nope - they were classed as 1.3 - they were all taxed based on emmissions, and were all in the top bracket. No RX-8 was taxed based on engine size, but to the best of my memory, the tax book said 1.3. As I said above lots of people would advise treating it like a 2.6 equivalent, for the power and economy it delivered. That equivalent also comes from, as I understood, the engine sparking more often per cycle than 'cammed' engines meaning there was more displacment happening.

Anyway let's not sweat the RX-8 stuff...

Sorry I meant 'understeer' as opposed to 'oversteer.'

Yeah, you'll soon learn the difference in an M3...

This is a absolutely wrong and a very dangerous statement to make for new drivers who don't know better.

Who mentioned new drivers? I thought we were all experienced drivers. To attempt an overtake in a car that you have no idea about, is indeed very dangerous. You should know your vehicle's capabilities BEFORE overtaking. Slip roads are very useful for this where you can easily justify heavy acceleration. Nothing of what I said was dangerous, if you forgot you were in a Yaris and thought you were in an M3, that would be dangerous too, but I didn't suggest that!

I have a 1.00 VVTI yaris and it does 0-60 in the high 13's. Similiar to a Aygo/C1/107 and VW Up I would guess. Overtaking with these cars in the speed range of 0-30mph maybe fine, if there is enough space ahead to overtake, HOWEVER with these cars they really do struggle to gain speed above 40mph. Their midrange power just isn't there, even when you drop down a gear and rev to 6k rpm. This is when overtaking with such vehicles can be tricky.

Wow. OK. How long have you been driving for? I drove, I think, a 1999 1.0l Yaris on a motorway. These cars we're talking about are not M3s. They are, however, perfectly capable of overtaking. I think you've really been spoilt by driving lots of fast cars at (I guess) a young age. The Highway code was written whe people were driving around in Ford Anglias. But still, there was a section on overtaking. The speed limits are still the same. Your Yaris would whip a Ford Anglia for economy and performance, yet you think they should be banned from overtaking?!

When you're driving these 'slow' cars, it's true, it's more difficult to overtake, and there are absolutely situations where you could complete the manouvre in one of your cars, and not the other. You have the luxury of a very fast car, and I think it has meant that you've never had to learn to ANTICIPATE along the way. You know, find that big gap, build up the speed in the right gear, and keep it planted (remember to look in the mirror in case an M3's flying past).
My first car of my own was a 1999 Clio 1.2. 65BHP. Plenty, PLENTY of safe overtaking done in it.
Genuine advice, you would do really well going on an advanced driving course. You WILL learn from it. Don't tell me you've been on one. I can tell that either you haven't, or you weren't paying attention.
One bad experience with a Fiesta (maybe he thought he was in his M3) isn't enough evidence.