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...Oh good grief, just had a look at the response options. Talk about loaded questions :roll: :headbang: Yes, I wrote several paragraphs of text in the text box somewhere around Q5 qualifying my answers to various questions and the reasoning behind them. It may or may not be read! I also included a...

Ah yes, the all pervasive spread of the automatic ;) I first started thinking about changing my car around six months ago. I currently run an Audi TTS (one of the last manual cars produced) and after several months concluded that for any 'performance' car at my budget point, with the exception of Po...

As an Audi driver I personally take exception to Jon's comment above, although I do get what and why it's said ;) Interestingly the cruise control on my TT is a bog standard cruise control. If it's set to eg 60, it will carry on at 60 regardless of what happens in front, although I've never had occa...

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Imagine around every bend there is a bale tractor with the tines pointed in your direction. Works for me

Works for me, except in my case it's a stationary combine!

With the investment already made and the investment committed, the best you'll get is an awareness campaign ;) It's already been announced, some time ago, albeitno specifically just smart motorways (and has been in planning since over a year ago). The Transport Committee is to investigate the roll-...

With the investment already made and the investment committed, the best you'll get is an awareness campaign

And to top it all, I read yesterday evening that Mercedes are about to recall 1,292,258 cars for what boils down to a technology related safety recall (ie a fault with the cars' eCall feature, which alerts emergency services of an accident and relays a vehicle's location to them, means it is possibl...

Bumping to the top because todays news suggests Tesla are having to recall 158,000 cars in the US due to failing touchscreens

/awaits comment from jont-/

I wonder how well they work with oncoming motorbikes, cycles, pedestrians etc? There are some interesting YouTube videos on the subject, one example here . All this automation bothers me - I prefer to be in control of when my engine stops and starts. Ditto switching the wipers and lights on and off...

A coroner is considering whether to refer Highways England to the CPS over the death of a woman on a smart motorway (M1 in South Yorkshire) in September 2018. Full story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-55398637 I personally doubt anything will come of it, but it's about t...