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[TheBoy]

Here is a hypothesis. Young drivers of today are not as spacially aware as young drivers were 30 years ago say?

People who are currently slightly beyond middle aged probably learnt roadcraft on a motorbike. Nothing teaches you awareness like riding a motorbike.

Sadly, now you can straight away get a loan for your first Saxo, having just passed a test, and you think you are indestructible.


Also, we didn't have satnavs back then, or any other manner of distracting, stupids gonks plastered all over the windscreen

[05omegav6]

Here is a hypothesis. Young drivers of today are not as spacially aware as young drivers were 30 years ago say?

People who are currently slightly beyond middle aged probably learnt roadcraft on a motorbike. Nothing teaches you awareness like riding a motorbike.

Sadly, now you can straight away get a loan for your first Saxo, having just passed a test, and you think you are indestructible.


Also, we didn't have satnavs back then, or any other manner of distracting, stupids gonks plastered all over the windscreen

Not so Mr Admin Sir, people have been obscuring their windscreens since 1952...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Trees

[chrisgixer]

 


mp3's are much easier to use while driving than 8 tracks/cassettes etc ....actually forget that.


They are voice activated these days. 

Yooves driving into anything that moves, and doesn't, has been going on since driving began.

[05omegav6]

mp3's are much easier to use while driving than 8 tracks/cassettes etc ....actually forget that.


They are voice activated these days. 

Yooves diving into anything that moves has been going on since the Teenager was invented.

Fixed

An unwasted youth is a wasted one... lord alone knows how it's taken nearly 25 years to figure that out mind... 

[Crazycarzowner]

I must say there are too many gadgets in cars these days. Take this Insigina I've got on loan. The centre console is like a mini computer. There's a mouse & clicker where the handbrake was and its taking me ages to find out how to change the radio channel, let alone the other dozens of apps that's in the 'entertainment system'. Very distracting if you ask me.

[The Sheriff]

I must say there are too many gadgets in cars these days. Take this Insigina I've got on loan. The centre console is like a mini computer. There's a mouse & clicker where the handbrake was and its taking me ages to find out how to change the radio channel, let alone the other dozens of apps that's in the 'entertainment system'. Very distracting if you ask me.

They're not gadgets, they're 'driver aids'....

[Crazycarzowner]

The only driver aids you need in a car are - steering wheel, pedals, indicator stalks & rear view mirrors (optional on BMW's & Audis) 

[The Sheriff]

The only driver aids you need in a car are - steering wheel, pedals, indicator stalks & rear view mirrors (optional on BMW's & Audis) 

Watch out for those rear view mirrors, I've heard they can frighten the living shite out of you. 

[Crazycarzowner]

Watch out for those rear view mirrors, I've heard they can frighten the living shite out of you


You can go right off some people, ya know 

[The Sheriff]

Watch out for those rear view mirrors, I've heard they can frighten the living shite out of you


You can go right off some people, ya know 

Sorry...couldn't resist..

[Crazycarzowner]

Ya shoulda been in work this mornin if ya wanted to take the piss, they were queuing up.........

[The Sheriff]

Ya shoulda been in work this mornin if ya wanted to take the piss, they were queuing up.........

Boys will be boys. You'll just have to wait until someone else nearly gets killed and then it'll be your turn to laugh. Jeez..........what a sad world.

[Andy B]

I must say there are too many gadgets in cars these days. Take this Insigina I've got on loan. The centre console is like a mini computer. There's a mouse & clicker where the handbrake was and its taking me ages to find out how to change the radio channel, let alone the other dozens of apps that's in the 'entertainment system'. Very distracting if you ask me.

J Clarkson comment on that years ago. He asked what was wrong with a switch for this & another switch for that instead of the current trend to to a have screen that you navigate around to alter any manner of things

[The Sheriff]

How hard can it be to make manufacturers disable everything but what you need for driving while the car is in motion?

[chrisgixer]

I must say there are too many gadgets in cars these days. Take this Insigina I've got on loan. The centre console is like a mini computer. There's a mouse & clicker where the handbrake was and its taking me ages to find out how to change the radio channel, let alone the other dozens of apps that's in the 'entertainment system'. Very distracting if you ask me.

J Clarkson comment on that years ago. He asked what was wrong with a switch for this & another switch for that instead of the current trend to to a have screen that you navigate around to alter any manner of things

Bloody technofobes