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Well I had a play today and selected a lower gear via the flappy paddle just before descending a hill. Kept my foot off the accelerator. All seemed fine then after 4-5 seconds it switched back to auto, changed up, and started to get faster due to the hill. This happened in both normal auto and Spor...

It\s a long time since I breathalysed anyone at the roadside, so this link - http://www.drinkdriving.org/police_breath_alcohol_test_preliminary.php - explains the process. It's designed to be as comprehensive as possible, erring (slightly) on the side of caution and thence in the driver's favour. An...

I find it ironic that a user called "userLeft1" appears to have left me less illuminated than before...

how the common law is applied. But any prosecution wouldn't happen under common law, would it. I do grant you there's a distinction in this whole 8 page discussion between common *sense* and the law as it stands. But if a police officer in a car behind me thinks, after I've applied some common sens...

The problem, Matt, is that people's metabolisms are so different in the rate at which they metabolise alcohol, the circumstances around the consumption are different, and so many other factors, that it's much easier, in my mind, to take the path of least resistance.

I wasn't going to bother, but a quick Google shows that the power to direct traffic applies when "a traffic officer is engaged in the regulation of traffic in a road" (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/18/section/6). Given the officer was responding to an emergency call, I'm not sur...

From the article - "Between 2010 and 2014 there were 530 KSI crashes (killed or seriously injured) in the West Midlands involving bicycles; the vast majority (84 per cent) of those saw riders colliding with cars." Being vulnerable, I think it's effort well spent - easy for us ADers to say ...

angus wrote:It's an excuse because they're not allowed to do random tests.

Correct. But a police officer can stop any car at any time for a documents check, and if there's a suspicion the driver has been drinking can insist on a breath test.

Not random, but close enough for me.

Drink driving became socially unacceptable and led to peer pressure to not do it.

The only way, short of having a crash when texting and driving, to reduce it as an issue is to do the same thing. But it's not going to happen overnight.

akirk wrote:I assume that the answer to cows on the road is BBQ?!

Brake Bloody Quickly ?