If someone coming the other way is on my side of the road, do I have to move over?

parking_question_chap

Op, you know "your side" is on the left of the dashed lines?

neilmcl

Deastons wrote: »

That's because I made them up. It's all a lie.

This image is not from a couple of seconds earlier as I passed them. So don't even bother looking at it.

https://ibb.co/dqLncA

Is that really from the same dashcam footage? Doesn't look anything like the location from the original pic and also doesn't look like a head on shot you'd get from the windscreen.

Mercdriver

Deastons wrote: »

That was like two years ago. You seem more bothered about me reversing into a hole than anyone else.

Sad.

I'm confused. If this is a unique username, and you don't have an alter ego, it means that you joined MSE more than a year after Andy started making fun of you and the hole.

weird, that.

Could I borrow your time machine to enter the massive lottery winning numbers from a few years ago, please?

candygirl

Scrapit wrote: »

Try not moving. That will give you your answer.

Exactly!:rotfl::T

Aylesbury_Duck

Mercdriver wrote: »

I'm confused. If this is a unique username, and you don't have an alter ego, it means that you joined MSE more than a year after Andy started making fun of you and the hole.

weird, that.

Could I borrow your time machine to enter the massive lottery winning numbers from a few years ago, please?

Here's the "hole" story...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5612873/driveway-removed-car-in-a-hole-my-fault

Aylesbury_Duck

It contained this lovely reply to someone who, when replying to deastons' point, mentioned that they were a lorry driver. This came shortly after deastons bragged about the £70,000 car he owned, too. Says a lot about the OP and their supposed concern for others.

deaston wrote:

A lorry driver? I'm surprised you know how to type.

Might want to u-turn on my garden as soon as you can. Self-driving vehicles will soon be putting your low-paid "career" at quite serious risk.

photome

neilmcl wrote: »

Is that really from the same dashcam footage? Doesn't look anything like the location from the original pic and also doesn't look like a head on shot you'd get from the windscreen.[/QUOTE


agreed , unlikely to be from same footage.


Not that Deaston ever makes stuff up...honest

Aretnap

fatrab wrote: »

Sort of covered in the Highway Code rule 147 but not my argument

Or more specifically there's the bit just before Rule 103.

The rules in The Highway Code do not give you the right of way in any circumstance, but they advise you when you should give way to others. Always give way if it can help to avoid an incident.

reeac

Since you appear to know that stretch of road so well, including the overtaking habits that it induces then, on seeing the litter pickers, you should immediately have been alert to the possible hazard and adjusted your speed ie. been prepared. Of course the overtaken was at fault but you can avoid a lot of problems by driving defensively.

facade

CardinalWolsey wrote: »

I think I've worked it out. OP works for a research firm employed by one of the companies working on self-driving cars. The moral dilemma here is does the car hold its position and crash, with a high risk of fatalities (oncoming car, its own occupants), or does it risk the lives of workers on the road (if that were indeed the risk).

No doubt all of our responses will be fed in to a machine-learning process and educate the cars of tomorrow - whether or not those cars will be aware of our posting history in online forums and will add that in to their decision making process could be an interesting option...

I'd have said it would go for the direct head-on. Cars are designed so that head-ons (the "perfect" accident compared to off-centre, t-boning or hitting a post- which is why you steer into a skid, so you can crash head on not swipe sideways) are survivable, whereas running someone over is pretty much going to kill them.