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Serious question: is it the case that pressing both pedals can cause issues in some cars? Not sure what you mean about "causing issues", but it's very common now for brake input to cut the throttle. Mostly provoked by US court cases where drivers have claimed they're mashing the brake but...

Especially when the skid pan section says: We feel this will give you the best preparation for anything the roads and weather may throw at you! Potentially sending over-confident young drivers back out on-road. Or making them realise how hard it is to control a car in a low grip situation and why i...

Can you be specific by "administrative account"? What username?

These days I'm wondering where you get long enough straights and little enough traffic to have 4 seconds to indicate before you move offside to look to see if it might be on... Another advanced driving coach pointed out to me that an overtake only takes 4-5 seconds. If you've got that long to be thi...

Not really. I've used Merell barefoot shoes for a while, and discovered their trail shoes add a useful bit of padding without really detracting from driving feel.

Oooh, another new standard. "DMAP5 is the ultimate qualification for all road drivers and is the highest measure of driving competence in the UK."

Strangely Brown wrote:Maybe they need one of these:

Ignore Stanav 1

Ignore Satnav 2

And do we think either of these work? Maybe as Horse suggests they need some electronics that instead pops up a message on the drivers satnav/phone, rather than expecting them to do something an onerous as look out the window

Feels a bit like a solution looking for a problem rather than telling folk to use their eyes? (and taking driving licenses away from folk who can't be bothered to do that).

Horse wrote:Ironically, if the full capabilities of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles are introduced, there should only be a single incident. That information would then be shared across the fleet.

Well, the fleet with compatible software, that is still eligible (or paying) for updates, yes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmmgvnnjgq9o How is that an acceptable response? If it told you to drive over a cliff, would you? (I know that one's been done too :roll: ) Rather than "writing to Apple and Google to ask them to update the maps" why aren't there questions about why driv...