Advanced Driving Hub

I "discovered" this afternoon that I have the "086DBC Lane Departure Warning" system, not something I have specified, so is it part of the basic spec? The interesting point is that it relies on a forwards facing camera! Could that be the same camera as would be used in the Traff...

My retirement present to myself, it’s a well spec’d vehicle already but the addition of a few bells and whistles made it my ideal vehicle. The first, Pixel laser Headlights, 140 individual lights which are switched on and off automatically in response to surrounding traffic, the improved vision is ...

These are being plugged on various channels of social media today, as a solution to a problem I'm not sure exists. New Design L plates (PDF) Your thoughts on legality, safety? £14.59. Bargain! "The Insight Vehicle Sign System gives the leaner or newly qualified driver extra confidence that the...

I've posted before about some research I took part in. It was actually aimed at developing tests for the effects of brain injury on driving, in particular trying to develop something more effective than a fields test. It involved 'driving' through a very simple computer-generated environment, follo...

martine wrote:....it's illegal to touch your phone while driving (stationary or not) .....

Unless it's in a ...........?

How can it be illegal to drive on the pavement yet legal to park on it? How can you park the car on the pavement unless you drive on it to get there? Does it not stand to reason that if the car is parked on the pavement then it must have been driven on it and is therefore eligible for a ticket? The...

As mentioned above, I believe that this is not the de facto position in law, other than London it is up to councils to write byelaws to prevent it, maybe that is what has happened in the Wirral? Alasdair More interesting stuff........ "However, it is an offence to drive onto the pavement, whet...

How can it be illegal to drive on the pavement yet legal to park on it? How can you park the car on the pavement unless you drive on it to get there? Does it not stand to reason that if the car is parked on the pavement then it must have been driven on it and is therefore eligible for a ticket? you...

Innovative concept from Bristol............

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bris ... ut-1316584

Good to see someone taking this issue seriously.

Strangely Brown wrote:I'm glad that the "cool plane" reference was a genuine error and not an accidental bad joke.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34039229

Nope - this is where I ended up:

https://goo.gl/maps/57x3hGomAvo

I'm having the computer fumigated.