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[EMD]

I would like to sign up,for the oof perfect driver course.
As I think my driving needs improving to oof standard of perfect

Get a 4x4 truck you Hoofer 

[05omegav6]

We are having a good moan tonight aren't we?................

Personally I am getting to the point of not liking to drive in the dark, it's country roads mostly round here, and some of these modern headlights are so bright they dazzle even if dipped, how they pass and MOT beggers belief...................

I am totally with you there, mate. I hate it at night, especially on the road to our tin tent....the road is like a roller coaster. What with full beam on, and bright lights coming at you over the rises, its a nightmare !!!!!

They bleddy Darzet local yokels ey Tony?   

You can laugh, Steve. They call it the 'Rat Race' up here, but struth...down there on the A31 and A35 is manic.
And you have over your fair share of boy racers

80mph down a dark twisty country lane is a perfectly way of getting from A to B (at 3 am) 

Indeed.

[Taxi_Driver]

These nutters just want to jump in and turn a key , nowt else  auto lights auto handbrake auto wipers auto everything

Touch of jealousy?? - although I've turned auto lights off as they can be a bit of a pain.

I'm slightly concerned with autolights, as all cars I've driven with it seem to be a bit slow to respond (IMHO, anyway). But such feature can be turned off/overridden

I find auto wipers frustrating, usually to eager to wipe.  In the case of the Omega, further annoyance that there isn't an intermittent wipe.

The only car I've driven long enough to get used to it with an electronic handbrake is an early Insignia.  Like lane changing indicators, you get used to it after a while, and miss it when you don't have it

I watched an E220 autopark the other day. It did a parallel park. That was impressive 

[The Sheriff]

I wouldn't say the auto lights on the wifes megane are slow to respond. In fact, they're a bit too sensitive. Pull under a canopy to fill up or drive into a multi storey car park and the driver in front gets a shock. 

[Terbs]

We have a narrow lane with passing places from here, leading down to the A40. Its called Cock Lane. On Saturday, my fiends were going down said lane, when a young man came belting down the other way, saw them, slammed on the brakes, went up the bank, into the hedge and over onto the roof, stopping inches from my friends. Luckily, no one was hurt, but.............

Evidently, the lad got out and exclaimed he was at fault going too fast. He said he was seventeen, and he had also written off his first car !!!!!!!!!!!   Whaaaaat !!!! Was more interested in using his phone to call his mates and have a laugh, even though the police were in attendance, as the road was blocked. What they were going to charge him with was mimiscule.

 So....he must have passed his test, been insured, etc. But if he was only seventeen, he could not have had many lessons before his test, and to write off two cars in that time...unbelievable.

The road lived up to its name Saturday, because he was a right 'dickhead'

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Sigh...


Sadly making insurance very, very expensive, does deter a certain number of young drivers - but crucially only ones who can't afford it. If you/your parents are able to pay the astronomical insurance (and as you say - given that he'd already been in an accident at 17, God knows what his premium must've been) we're kind of only getting rid of half the problem, wealthier drivers high premiums just isn't/never will be a deterrent. That's guy is clearly a chief cock, and doesn't care about other road users - but he/his parents have clearly got the income that can stand the 'penalty' of a higher premium. And then you've got every week in our local paper, some guy done for having no licence and insurance or tax, so he gets three points on a licence he doesn't have, and a 'fine' of £150...  but, erm.... that doesn't even cover the cost of the tax he's dodged, let alone the insurance. Surely, by definition the fine should be on top of the cost of the tax and insurance he's evaded.

Aware I'm probably being crass and unfeeling, but I kind of hope he actually gets killed doing what he's doing - thereby hopefully saving someone's life.

[Terbs]

DBG....I sadly have to agree with your last part of your comment. My friend was in bits....she (and her hubby) thought the end had come when the idiot went up the bank and momentarily airborne.
And shame to say, I have uttered that in the past, when some idiot has gone streaking past...'I hope we see him round the next corner splattered up a tree as long as no-one else is involved'
It gets you like that

PS....I agree with the rest, too