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During a drive with my group's chief observer, to see if I was ready for the test, use of the handbrake was suggested “whenever a pause becomes a wait.” If there is an unbroken stream of traffic coming from one, or both, sides you might as well rest your leg muscles by putting the handbrake on and s...

I think the bloke that designed them and gave them his name just died in prison after a civil service career ended badly.

Does anyone remember the Citroen DS with its steerable main beams? IIRC the left hand lamp swung to the same angle as the right wheel and vice versa which made them look a bit odd if parked with the front wheels turned away from the straight ahead.

There’s nothing wrong with my hearing but I never use the voice prompts on my satnav. I have other things I would rather listen to and I found the constant interruptions irritating. I just glance at it whenever I want an update on where the next turn is.

Presumably heat produced by the machine is being ducted away. Maybe the car could use a winter setting that routes it via the cabin.

Waldegrave Road in Twickenham has parking spaces marked partially on the road and partially on the pavement, presumably in an attempt to allow parking while leaving enough room for today’s ever wider vehicles to flow freely. One could argue that the pavements could be made narrower but paint is chea...

Will they immobilise a car with run flat tyres?

The original link shows the plane if you zoom out a bit: it appears in the upper right side of the view.

There used to be multiple images of a plane taking off from Heathrow showing the way the image we see is made up of images tiled together. The plane could be seen leaving the runway, heading west, then turning south.

Not the first time they have shown up on the satellite view. It used to be possible to spot the Battle of Britain Lancaster near Grantham before the images were updated.