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- Tue Sep 12, 2017 2:22 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: Dutch Reach
- Replies: 24
- Views: 28941
Re: Dutch Reach
I'm usually quite good at looking, but I don't always reach across. I'd prefer to, I've just found the habit difficult to build.
- Sat Nov 05, 2016 7:09 pm
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: 15000 miles later
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18043
Re: 15000 miles later
Were you releasing the accelerator entirely while upshifting before?
- Mon Oct 10, 2016 4:31 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Black Boxes
- Replies: 28
- Views: 40516
Re: Black Boxes
Cornering forces- in a Porsche with the ability to show lateral g force, I found that far the highest g forces were very brief transitional forces at small roundabouts. No implications for safety, but I presume they would have been marked as negatives? There's likely to be some smoothing applied, a...
- Fri Oct 07, 2016 3:19 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Black Boxes
- Replies: 28
- Views: 40516
Re: Black Boxes
I'd be very surprised if they were able to detect centre line infractions. If I had to guess (perhaps not totally uneducated, but still in the realms of guesswork), it would be: - Times. Penalize people who drive at night. - Where you drive. Towns might have more insurance claims. Rural roads might ...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 1:49 am
- Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
- Topic: First Time Automatic Owner
- Replies: 37
- Views: 35910
Re: First Time Automatic Owner
You might find the anti-left-foot-braking system still allows you to do that. The (manual) Polo I used to drive had a system that would cut power if you applied the brake (in that order), but allow accelerator to be added after the brake: it allowed heel and toe, but not left foot braking, so to spe...
- Wed Jul 13, 2016 1:58 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 'Safe driving' Apps - Insurance company
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22306
Re: 'Safe driving' Apps - Insurance company
I actually used one of these either 1 or 2 years ago. It was Admiral's 'AppyDriver'; it was a phone app (that could be turned off), and I needed to drive something like 200 miles with it running to be given a score and maybe a discount. I don't have that much information on what it scored me on: I u...
- Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:39 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: First fatal accident for self-driving car
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12275
First fatal accident for self-driving car
http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/30/12072 ... us-model-s
If I were Google, or any body else developing self-driving cars right now; I wouldn't be too happy with Tesla...
If I were Google, or any body else developing self-driving cars right now; I wouldn't be too happy with Tesla...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 1:51 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Citigo - 300 miles later.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 31986
Re: Citigo - 300 miles later.
I actually noticed with the RX-8 that the gearbox oil would never reach full temperature until the car had been taken above 4krpm a few times.
(By never I mean after driving below 4k for hours during the rebuild running in.)
(By never I mean after driving below 4k for hours during the rebuild running in.)
- Sat May 28, 2016 10:20 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: And so it begins....
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13881
Re: And so it begins....
I think the problem here is that Tesla have decided it's OK to create a self-driving car that requires continuous human oversight (the instructions are quite clear that you're still responsible). Unsurprisingly, people don't do this, and as a result things like this happen. I absolutely agree that a...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 4:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Some news for you!
- Replies: 103
- Views: 82810
Re: Some news for you!
My experience buying car insurance (also from Admiral/Elephant group) was that premiums are minimized when the car is worth about £10,000 (there are of course other more significant factors, but it was an appreciable impact). Any more and it'll cost too much to fix, and less and you won't be careful...