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by waremark
Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Dissertation survey
Replies: 95
Views: 214740

Re: Dissertation survey

Completed it. Would be interesting to see the outcomes and contrast daily mail reading public to ADS? I beg your pardon! Are you suggesting that AD's don't read the Daily Mail? (I have been told that though I read the DM I am not a Mail reader! My offspring consider that buying the DM is funding ha...
by waremark
Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Dissertation survey
Replies: 95
Views: 214740

Re: Dissertation survey

Put this in any other comments: All my answers have been negative about Smart Motorways. I consider that there is a trade-off between motorway capacity and safety, and I accept that Smart Motorways done better may be an appropriate way to increase the capacity of overcrowded motorways. Smart Motorwa...
by waremark
Mon Feb 27, 2023 10:20 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: IAM members assessment
Replies: 45
Views: 71335

Re: IAM members assessment

My extremely limited experience of non police IAM examiners locally suggests that they may well be less expert than the police ones. As has been implied by others above, there are a number of us here who have even more training, experience, and dare I say relevant expertise than the police examiners...
by waremark
Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:18 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Off-siding
Replies: 52
Views: 115516

Re: Off-siding

I have a car with Adaptive Cruise Control. There are numerous occasions when I would prefer a regular cruise control including those mentioned, but on the other hand there are also many situations where it helps. It is easy to turn the adaptive function off using a control on the steering wheel but ...
by waremark
Sun Jan 29, 2023 12:19 am
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Off-siding
Replies: 52
Views: 115516

Re: Off-siding

Seen this? Watched it for the first time just now - only as far as 4 1/2 minutes. That very definitely encourages crossing a line to gain a view - very un-IAM. Personally I was a bit dubious about 4 1/4 minutes. I would have liked a video available to the public to put more emphasis on when and why...
by waremark
Sat Jan 28, 2023 3:10 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Off-siding
Replies: 52
Views: 115516

Re: Off-siding

"From 1960 p38, referring to same term, an "earlier view" (with my highlighting).... "...and into left-hand bends by keeping slightly over to the right when approaching the bend. Lining up in this way must only be resorted to when it is perfectly safe to do so, and in any case th...
by waremark
Fri Jan 27, 2023 5:28 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Off-siding
Replies: 52
Views: 115516

Re: Off-siding

The IAM do approve crossing the centre line to straighten kinks; what they don't approve is crossing the centre line before a left hander to extend the view. Having said that, that has been published in the past as an official position, but what they say changes over time and gets interpreted differ...
by waremark
Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:09 pm
Forum: Advanced Driving - Cars
Topic: Off-siding
Replies: 52
Views: 115516

Re: Off-siding

This road used to be on my daily commute, predating my IAM membership. It’s NSL, note the ‘kink’ in the distance. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vx2ZYArmC8KTdpW46?g_st=im At that location, in good conditions and if I had the road to myself, I would always pull right over to the offside which gave me a gre...
by waremark
Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:29 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings
Replies: 27
Views: 17582

Re: Greetings

I enjoy giving commentary which I consider an interesting skill in itself. It has side benefits of preventing distractions unrelated to the driving task, and encouraging you to search out things which should influence the driving plan, and help you think about what to do about them. Like most drivin...
by waremark
Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:20 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings
Replies: 27
Views: 17582

Re: Greetings

hir wrote:
Mark, you and John are both very kind. I’m always happy to listen to you both whilst driving. Hopefully, I’ll be back in action in a few months time and look forward to driving again with yourselves and others on here. :)

I'm looking fwd to it. Hope things are progressing well.

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