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by akirk
Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:46 pm
Forum: This Website
Topic: Spam
Replies: 25
Views: 39129

Re: Spam

Apologies all for the spam attack and a huge thank you to jont- for dealing with it... All spammers are now deleted We have changed the registration to require a Q&A related to this website All registered users (for now) will require Admin approval - will recind when we are happy with lack of at...
by akirk
Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:41 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: The Antidote to BRAKE
Replies: 18
Views: 18381

Re: The Antidote to BRAKE

I think that there is plenty to support, but also plenty which makes me stop and think - Unfortunately any pressure group has a danger of becoming a platform for the views of a small group - if you read their manifesto there are some good ideas, some logical ideas, and some where they need perhaps a...
by akirk
Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:37 pm
Forum: This Website
Topic: Spam
Replies: 25
Views: 39129

Re: Spam

right - dealing with it - my apologies for this...
have locked down registration to admin approval ponly for now
currently switched off private messages in case they spam those before I can wipe the users
am working through the users to remove them - will update shortly

Alasdair
by akirk
Fri Oct 16, 2015 1:46 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: The perfect car.... ...?!
Replies: 20
Views: 21381

The perfect car.... ...?!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/is-this-the-perfect-car/ After a professor with too much time on his hands and no understanding of design asked 2,000 people their favourite cars, apparently this means that the perfect car would be an amalgam of them all: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/images/n...
by akirk
Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: MOT Test result check...
Replies: 26
Views: 25330

Re: MOT Test result check...

looks really good and intelligently links on VIN as I checked a car which has had its reg. plate change and it correctly picks it up back through previous number plates

Alasdair
by akirk
Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:42 am
Forum: In The News
Topic: IAM reports figures on careless driving
Replies: 6
Views: 7574

IAM reports figures on careless driving

http://www.iam.org.uk/media-and-research/media-centre/news-archive/20704-more-than-17000-convicted-of-careless-driving-in-past-two-years-iam-discovers The IAM has just reported on 2 years of figures on careless driving, and seem to focus on which areas have the highest numbers... this has then been ...
by akirk
Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:09 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is it just me?
Replies: 25
Views: 23736

Re: Is it just me?

Great to see lots of passion :) but it probably distracts a little from the main purpose of the forum... Happy to welcome all here... There will be many different reasons why folks move over here, but we don't need to turn it into a slanging match about Rob, he is simply running a business and doing...
by akirk
Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:24 pm
Forum: In The News
Topic: So do you know the Highway Code?
Replies: 31
Views: 29978

Re: So do you know the Highway Code?

No :D the correct answer is always whatever the question setter wants regardless of what is actually correct :D
Alasdair
by akirk
Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:48 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: The most difficult aspect of Advanced Driving
Replies: 125
Views: 107835

Re: The most difficult aspect of Advanced Driving

Are you thinking of this, widely reproduced, document? A Fighter Pilot's Guide to Surviving on the Road Yes! thank you :D glad someone is on the ball - couldn't remember which document it was - not sure of its accuracy, but was interesting Alasdair P.S. - appreciate this might now go off topic - if...
by akirk
Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:41 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: The most difficult aspect of Advanced Driving
Replies: 125
Views: 107835

Re: The most difficult aspect of Advanced Driving

I seem to remember a study which looked at that in the context of driving - and it helps explain why motorists can miss cyclists an bikers at junctions, as they are literally blind to them - the biker moving within the area they are 'not seeing' as they scan... the comment about reading other words ...

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