Cagers. What gives?

[oneofsix]

I think if all cagers were to spend a week or two riding a motorcycle, they might, and I repeat MIGHT look at their own actions more carefully and appreciate other road users.

yeah I remember in another thread Scuba Steve ranting on how being driven to school (and not biking) means learning about road uses by others is being lost. Being vulnerable is a great teacher.

[Swoop]

yeah I remember in another thread Scuba Steve ranting on how being driven to school (and not biking) means learning about road uses by others is being lost. Being vulnerable is a great teacher.

Kids should be encouraged to pushbike to school.
Or walk. Either will provide exercise but the bike will help road awareness.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Poo can get even with you for holding it hostage for too long. Poo is sposed to come out, not sit around in a smelly, dark passageway.

Poo toxins can be absorbed back into your bloodstream, and affect the brain, making you a shit-for-brains.

Just imagine how you would like it. Poo has feelings, too. Free your poo - don't hold it in.

time and place, time and place. It was only for a few minutes, but I confess to being a VERY distracted driver on the way to work today.

all better now, thanks for asking

[5150]

time and place, time and place. It was only for a few minutes, but I confess to being a VERY distracted driver on the way to work today.

all better now, thanks for asking

Each to their own I say

[Oblivion]

There was a very nice show on TV a while ago on National Geo, for those who have sky, Called Test your brain.

Its all about the brain and how it processes the information from the sensory organs. I highly recommend that some of you watch it.

Lets see if some of you can see this dude pickpocket ANY of the items from these people.

http://natgeotv.com/asia/test-your-b...os/pick-pocket

Car drivers pretty much work on the same analogy as this, so it is relevant somehow...

[Captain_Salty]

time and place, time and place. It was only for a few minutes, but I confess to being a VERY distracted driver on the way to work today.

all better now, thanks for asking

so you get paid to poo, any more jobs goin?

[5150]

so you get paid to poo, any more jobs goin?

Only to do with cleaning it up afterwards

[pzkpfw]

So this morning I am riding my bike to work. Only 5 minute ride but with three "T" intersections that in all cases I have an "assumed" right of way ...

What do you mean by '"assumed" right of way'?

(Later you mention they were all on give way signs. So what was assumed?)



Yesterday I had a Range Rover pull out from the side of the road (in a suburban street) after the car in front of me (fairly well ahead) had passed it. He saw that car go past, possibly didn't even look for more traffic, then pulled out into the road in front of me. Full on emergency stop. Rise in the road meant I couldn't just go around him - no idea what might come over the hill coming the other way. Too busy stopping to react in any other way, didn't even beep - possibly good since if he'd jammed on his own brakes I might have hit him.

A good reminder to me that, yes, I need to assume I'm invisible. If I'd noticed the Rover (not that he had his indicator on or anything) had a driver in it and might pull out I'd have been more ready when he did.

[BoristheBiter]

There was a very nice show on TV a while ago on National Geo, for those who have sky, Called Test your brain.

Its all about the brain and how it processes the information from the sensory organs. I highly recommend that some of you watch it.

Lets see if some of you can see this dude pickpocket ANY of the items from these people.

http://natgeotv.com/asia/test-your-b...os/pick-pocket

Car drivers pretty much work on the same analogy as this, so it is relevant somehow...

A bit like that doco that Richard Hammond did about speed and the fact that we can only process a curtain number of images a second, so if you don't spend long enough looking in one direction you might not see what is there.

[Captain_Salty]

maybe if road users could nominate other drivers a limited amount of "rep points", for good or considerate driving, it might entice people to concentrate. Get enough rep points and you get a merit point banked on your license which you could offset demirit points with, or maybe lower premiums or rego. (lower rego - yea right

[5150]

What do you mean by '"assumed" right of way'?

(Later you mention they were all on give way signs. So what was assumed?)

Sorry. By "assumed" I was being sarcastic that yes there was a give way sign and under these conditions one would assume that he has the right of way, untill some idiot decides to ignore the give way sign and pull out anyway.

[5150]

maybe if road users could nominate other drivers a limited amount of "rep points", for good or considerate driving, it might entice people to concentrate. Get enough rep points and you get a merit point banked on your license which you could offset demirit points with, or maybe lower premiums or rego. (lower rego - yea right

Possibly good idea, but almost impossible to police

[Dodgy_Matt]

maybe if road users could nominate other drivers a limited amount of "rep points", for good or considerate driving, it might entice people to concentrate. Get enough rep points and you get a merit point banked on your license which you could offset demirit points with, or maybe lower premiums or rego. (lower rego - yea right

But then you would get some Homo giving out rep points to the same person... but mainly coz they have a man crush

[Captain_Salty]

but if you could only rep the same plate once a year or sumit...

[pzkpfw]

I reckon it'd be simple for [s]LTSA[/s] LTNZ (whatever they're called this week) to have a form on their website...

You'd enter a plate, a date and select a message from a bunch of choices, like "Please review the indication rules for roundabouts".

Then, when the license expiry notice is mailed out to the owner, the computer could pop-in the message on the form. (If someone gets ten messages logged to their plate - maybe someone would visit them?).

(This'd be totally anonymous. The date allows for situations like sale of vehicle between "offence" and mail-out (or maybe figuring out which of your kids was driving your car that day). The message is pre-canned to stop knobs sending foul messages for kicks.)

Probably a total waste of time, but, I dream...