atlas_shrugged wrote:In addition we have 3rd party insurance cover charged to fuel.
Please explain how this would be implemented, and why you think it would be beneficial.
atlas_shrugged wrote:In addition we have 3rd party insurance cover charged to fuel.
Postboxer wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-52834471
Traffic down 70%, accidents down 10%
Seems all the bad drivers still had somewhere to be. Maybe they were all testing their eyesight.
Peter F wrote:I am stating it as fact because it is. An autonomous car is one that doesn't require a driver and they don't yet exist. Once they do they will eliminate all accidents caused by human error, so the majority of them.
reohn2 wrote:There are those who enjoy antagonising cyclists not usually to the degree of the OP granted but it's obvious to anyone who rides a bike,it's become the norm in a land where policing is practically extinct.
PP
I hope you friend mends well and gets back on the bike otherwise the morons win.
Pennine pedaller wrote:reohn2 wrote:There are those who enjoy antagonising cyclists not usually to the degree of the OP granted but it's obvious to anyone who rides a bike,it's become the norm in a land where policing is practically extinct.
PP
I hope you friend mends well and gets back on the bike otherwise the morons win.
Sadly this might be the one that stops him riding.He had a hit and run a couple of years ago but that one wasn’t quite so serious.It’s early days but at this time his head is telling him he’s done.He is in a lot of pain and full of drugs so he might feel differently in a few weeks.There is the possibility of course that he may not physically be able to ride again even if he gets over it mentally.I think this has genuinely scared him.
If this was,as suspected,a deliberate attack then the individual in question is clearly a very dangerous person to be driving about.
This has been on local BBC and in local press plus Cycling weekly/Road CCs social media pages and many local cycling clubs have posted the Police appeal on their social media pages..Someone must know the perpetrator who will surely have new damage to his/her car.
mjr wrote:Peter F wrote:I am stating it as fact because it is. An autonomous car is one that doesn't require a driver and they don't yet exist. Once they do they will eliminate all accidents caused by human error, so the majority of them.
Except the programmer errors!
Plus there's also the problem of deliberate subversion by programmers à la Volkswagen Emissions Test Cheat Mode. Won't manufacturers want to be able to sell their autonomous car as being programmed to complete a journey typically x% faster than a competitor? So there'll be a temptation to start literally cutting corners that will be very difficult to resist.
reohn2 wrote: (snip)
As for the driver one wonders what goes through the mind of such maniacs.....
The point is though it shouldn't come to this kind thing.
It's a well known fact that the biggest deterrent to any criminal is getting caught but sadly due to the total lack of practically any effective policing criminals do what they do,in the full knowledge that there's very little chance of being caught and that's the whole problem IMHO.
Peter F wrote:Errr...no. Aside from the fact that currently journey time is not related to car performance in any way, once you remove the need to drive the performance aspect will disappear.
Peter F wrote:Aside from the fact that currently journey time is not related to car performance in any way, once you remove the need to drive the performance aspect will disappear.
Cugel wrote:
..........Civility is a precious thing. We are chucking it away, bit by bit, as the yob & hooray henry become more & more fashionable models for we small-folk to admire and emulate in our myriad small ways.
Cugel
Jdsk wrote:Peter F wrote:Aside from the fact that currently journey time is not related to car performance in any way, once you remove the need to drive the performance aspect will disappear.
Mostly agree, but there are several different markets lumped together in "cars". There will still be a "performance" segment.