Re: Motorway Speed Limits Revisited : Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:55 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

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A more pertinent experiment would be to properly look at a building on every road you drive on. The same level of looking that you'd give to the beautiful scenes that FA would drop from 60mph to 30 for.

No, I can't let that go.

* WHERE exactly did I say that I "would drop from 60 to 30" for anything?

* What exactly is this "same level of looking" you claim on my behalf, and where did I explain this "level"?

* And how on earth is "properly looking at a building", whatever that might mean, equal to taking in a vista spread right across your field of view? These are two completely different things. You wouldn't be "properly looking" at the details in the view. I'd have thought it was bleedin' obvious that it is all about the view - and not at all about any fine details anywhere within it.

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

...I think most guys on here will have checked out some hottie while moving in city traffic and had to drop anchor because the cars had stopped in front of them.

Really? So clearly YOU have, anyway. I doubt anyone else does. Clearly, it appears you don't practice what you preach.

You are just as bad as a driving texter. It would be disgraceful and downright dangerous to take your eyes off the road to ogle some unsuspecting "hottie", as you put it, whilst driving, in such a way that when you can finally tear your lechy eyes away, you are almost up the back end of the poor bugger in front. Each post you make strengthens the impression that you are a rotten driver.

Re: Motorway Speed Limits Revisited : Sat Jun 29, 2013 6:37 pm  

Summer is here. Nothing wrong with driving around eyeing up scantily clad members of the opposite sex. And anyone who is straight and says they don't do it is probably lying.

Re: Motorway Speed Limits Revisited : Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:01 pm  

I think the whole point is what you can look at whilst driving safely.

We have one nutter who pretty much admits running into the back of people while not looking where he is going.

The point I would make is that it is an essential part of careful driving to look for, and see, potential hazards such as pedestrians. If you like the pedestrians you see, well, that's just a bonus. But as a careful driver you should be perfectly capable of seeing pedestrians safely. It shouldn't make you crash, or almost crash.

Re: Motorway Speed Limits Revisited : Sun Jun 30, 2013 4:46 pm  

The sooner that cars that drive themselves become the norm, the better.
Then we can all read, text, look at the view, ogle the passing totty, hold conference calls or have a little snooze without killing each other.

Driving ... it's the past.

Re: Motorway Speed Limits Revisited : Sun Jun 30, 2013 6:42 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

The sooner that cars that drive themselves become the norm, the better.
Then we can all read, text, look at the view, ogle the passing totty, hold conference calls or have a little snooze without killing each other.

Driving ... it's the past.

We used to have things like that and they were used by people all the time. We called them buses

Re: Motorway Speed Limits Revisited : Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:25 am  

cod'ead wrote:

We used to have things like that and they were used by people all the time. We called them buses

Aye, that's the way to go. Bus driver - eye on the road ahead at all times.