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by Strangely Brown
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:43 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
Replies: 57
Views: 858

Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking

Horse wrote:And I'm sure most here will know about the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Or do we ... ? Irony meter to 11, we may not be quite right in what we think!


'I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.' - Socrates
by Strangely Brown
Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:32 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
Replies: 57
Views: 858

Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking

I'll just leave this here...

Image

No implications intended.
by Strangely Brown
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:00 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
Replies: 57
Views: 858

Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking

Very good. I see what you did there. :)
by Strangely Brown
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:03 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
Replies: 57
Views: 858

Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking

The photo is a snapshot of a moment in time. It does not show at what point the signal was applied or whether it was cancelled a moment later. In the example given by the OP he states that he was already in the offside position and then applied the signal to mean "it's going to happen now"...
by Strangely Brown
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
Replies: 57
Views: 858

Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking

As the road widened up ahead (about three quarter width) I moved to, distance wise, a following position but out on the offside. I paused in that positioned to be absolutely sure my intended overtaking manoeuvre was going to be safe. As I paused, I activated my indicator and a few seconds later, pi...
by Strangely Brown
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Use of Indicator for Overtaking
Replies: 57
Views: 858

Re: Use of Indicator for Overtaking

It must have been a wonderful experience for you both to be coached by John Lyon. I too have spent time in a car with JL in the left seat. Wonderful experience? Opinions vary. On a more general note I can't help feeling that you are massively overanalysing things and looking for absolutes where non...
by Strangely Brown
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: These shoes are made for walking
Replies: 17
Views: 543

Re: These shoes are made for walking

by Strangely Brown
Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: These shoes are made for walking
Replies: 17
Views: 543

Re: These shoes are made for walking

She doesn't understand how I can feel the pedals through the rugged soles. Maybe point out that the police seem to manage, given they must wear chunky shoes and still be able to drive to a high standard. I remember attending a local IAM group one evening for a talk given by the head of Sussex Polic...
by Strangely Brown
Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:06 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: I was just following the satnav...
Replies: 21
Views: 1212

Re: I was just following the satnav...

Maybe they need one of these:

Ignore Stanav 1

Ignore Satnav 2
by Strangely Brown
Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: I was just following the satnav...
Replies: 21
Views: 1212

Re: I was just following the satnav...

The first pic looks a bit hairy but there is a, "Caution, Yump!" with some serious air in the second. :)

But seriously, as was drummed into me, "You have to see [all of] it before you can commit to using it."

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