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We seem to be having a spate of it today - thanks for the reports - please keep them coming if you see anything you think we should know about. Hopefully akirk will be a long shortly to lock things down a bit more tightly.

Strangely Brown wrote:That reminds me of...

Beat me to it

Strangely Brown wrote:I suspect that there is more to it than just saccade blindness. I strongly suspect that selective attention has a big part to play.

Selective Attention Test

Isn't that also a good example of why experience is useful?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/tesla_autopilot_rollout/ http://www.wired.com/2015/10/tesla-self-driving-over-air-update-live/ So Tesla can push major functionality updates out OTA, and yet describe the autopilot as "Beta" :shock: “We tell drivers to keep their hands on the wheel j...

The handbook for my soon to be 15 years old MX5 is full of legal gobbledegook and very little actual information; not that such a simple car needs much instruction I suppose. It is not an import so the book and the car are both UK market. A Spanish market Ford has a much more to the point, and more...

StressedDave wrote:Normally on a road like that I don't bother stopping, so any chance of a number?

B4560, from heads of the valley road to llandgynidr. I'm sure you must have been there

martine wrote:I was here this morning...

Git. Really must get the Caterham across to that part of the world

Playtent wrote:Alasdair,

Excellent work so far and thanks for your efforts. How about a video section?

Cheers

For the amount of traffic, I'm inclined to say there are already plenty of sub-forums - just chuck the video in the appropriate one. Increasing numbers of forums just make it painful to navigate.

yes, they can be very surprised when you keep up with them - however, I will often let them past if I feel that a) they are dangerous (would prefer them to have an accident elsewhere!), or riding well, but fast, in which case it helps them... the tedious ones are those who overtake badly, but then ...

Ah, so for car drivers, the best roads would be any not mentioned on that site then - I find it very tedious having to be side-stepping motorcyclists coming towards me with their head and half their bodies on my side of the white line on left handers ... not to mention having to be constantly alert...