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| Thread ID: 97755 | 2009-02-26 09:02:00 | National is better than Labour | Sweep (90) | PC World Chat |
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| 751644 | 2009-03-01 11:41:00 | <snip> And stopping for red lights would be enforced by the cross traffic. Only if there was some cross traffic - bikes still wouldn't get picked up by the in-road sensors... ;) |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 751645 | 2009-03-01 20:49:00 | So you're claiming that your bus getting scratched is worse than a cyclist dying? Even if the cyclist was 100% in the wrong, does that really sound reasonable? |
shermo (12739) | ||
| 751646 | 2009-03-01 20:59:00 | There isnt a problem everything is just cool until one day you are driving and at the same time an oncoming vehicle is on your side of the road coming right at you and on your left you have a cyclist. You have a choice, pull over in to incoming vehicles path and put yourself and vehicle at risk of serious damage (and the road hogs vehicle and occupants) or move left and knock the cyclist off knowing you will have to get some work done where the handlebars have scuffed the paint. Not a hard choice is it? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 751647 | 2009-03-01 21:12:00 | There isnt a problem everything is just cool until one day you are driving and at the same time an oncoming vehicle is on your side of the road coming right at you and on your left you have a cyclist. You have a choice, pull over in to incoming vehicles path and put yourself and vehicle at risk of serious damage (and the road hogs vehicle and occupants) or move left and knock the cyclist off knowing you will have to get some work done where the handlebars have scuffed the paint. Not a hard choice is it? Apart from that scenario being a rare one, have you not yet found the pedal in the middle of the driver's side of most vehicles (in some it's the left hand one)? It's caled a "brake" - use it, so you are BEHIND the cyclist you are overtaking, then pull further left. If all it takes is the space that a cyclst takes up on the road for you to be safe in your 2 tonne (or more) steel box, then you can't have been in much danger anyway. Again, in the scenario you describe, you are the overtaking vehicle until the back of your vehicle is past the vehicle being overtaken (in this case the cyclist), therefore it is YOUR responsibility to ensure you can safely overtake, or back off until you can. What you describe as being "not a hard choice" is an illustration of the "Rule Of Big" I described earlier and is just plain lazy driving, with aggressiveness thrown in for good measure. If you follow this practice, you will (not 'may') kill someone and affect their family (and yours) for the rest of their lives. [Sorry for the hijacking that this thread has had guys] |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 751648 | 2009-03-02 09:37:00 | Prefect you can't be a proficient bus driver then can you as you would rather kill people then take appropriate safety procations while driving. I now wonder how well bus driver's are tested before they can get the job because of your comments towards people and how you dont value life but value your bus that can be fixed and repaired but once you kill someone that's it they are dead now!!! I can imagine you sitting behind the wheel of your 2 tonne (or more) metal brick hunched over your wheel like a mad man gripping the wheel with white knockles steering into and knocking over as many people as possible and keeping count as you go and yelling at the top of your voice and blaming everybody for everthing wrong in your life and not accepting any responsibility youself. What a pathetic sad life. |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 751649 | 2009-03-02 09:44:00 | I can imagine you sitting behind the wheel of your 2 tonne (or more) metal brick hunched over your wheel like a mad man gripping the wheel with white knockles steering into and knocking over as many people as possible and keeping count as you go and yelling at the top of your voice and blaming everybody for everthing wrong in your life and not accepting any responsibility youself. Dude you have issues. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 751650 | 2009-03-02 09:56:00 | Dude you have issues. Dude coming from you,that's real funny!!!!!!:D And that is the picture that Prefect paints of himeself while driving his bus!!!:lol: |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 751651 | 2009-03-02 10:09:00 | Which is exactly how I broke my collar bone, acromium, shoulder blade and five ribs (driver's window though, not windscreen) 18 months ago. :rolleyes: :stare: What the heck is an acromium? I thought you were going to say you interupted the mrs while she was watching shortlind st, similar things happen! |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 751652 | 2009-03-02 10:17:00 | I haven't got R2x1's other half!! :D Acromion (en.wikipedia.org) - the "A" part of the "AC" joint. Surgeon also had to put a stitch in the joint itself. After many months of painful physio and lots of reps of exercises, my arm movement is back to normal. I now have a "dropped shoulder" though, so I now look a bit lop-sided (even when sober!!). Painful to shoulder-charge though doors too, since the muscle loss has left a lot more skin-and-bone than substance. So I have to lead with my left sholder now... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 751653 | 2009-03-02 10:24:00 | I think the acromion is some sort of sticky-outy bit on your collar bone. Bus drivers hate acromions, apparently. Like to snap them off of those gosh danged bicycle riders - teach them a lesson and all. Silly arse bicycle riders using the roads - DON'T THEY KNOW THAT BIG BUSES ARE IMPORTANT AND THAT BUS DRIVERS WHO DRIVE BIG BUSES ARE IMPORTANT!!! Heck - I reckon the National gummint should ban the stupid sidewalks too. Gosh danged sidewalks are a commie idea. Gosh danged pedestrians prolly all vote for the friggin commie pinko lefty Labour party - which should be banned! Along with the pedestrians! Heck. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
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