Recent content by Lucan

A stinger can be deployed where it is relatively safe to do so and other traffic kept away. However, see my further comment below. But when the owner or police press a remote kill button, will they know where the car is and what is around it? Only in a close chase situation perhaps. A while ago...

I have just had a look at Google Streetview at that location and see a strange arrangement of two road bridges very close to each other, the one you are standing on for the photo and the other only about 20 yards behind you. The latter looks older and quite narrow. Is this the site of an...

I dislike being driven by colleagues on business trips and after some bad experiences I vowed never to do it again. One reason is that you find out first hand that a quiet mild-mannered guy actually drives his car like a maniac. In another experience we arrived at our booked hotel but my...

True here in rural South East Wales. I think I'm the only driver who takes any notice of it whatsoever unless there is a camera. Very often as I slow into a village a driver behind me will seize the opportunity to overtake me, probably hitting the 20mph sign at 40 or more. Law of unexpected...

I love a quotation from her about her own glitzy stage make-up : I don't know much else about her but I once saw a TV debate in which she was a participant. I don't remember the topic but she came across as very intelligent.

Locking people up? I'm hearing that people, even violent criminals, are being released early because prisons don't have enough room or not enough staff. You have to try really hard to get yourself sent to prison and kept for your sentence these days.

Basically, your car is under the control of Tesla, a company owned by a megalomanic. I find that creepy even without the megalomaniac factor. Very true. No it doesn't. Believe me, I have been the deputy foreman in a small dealer's workshop. No necessarily limited to EV's, but cars are...

Musk has never engineered anything*, he is a financier and a salesman, and megalomaniac. He wants as much control over the the worlds' information and money as possible using x[dot]com as everyone's everything app, with Starlink for its delivery. Starlink does have a lot to do with him...

Yes, of course, on this forum we all know that. But my point was : are people going to do that just because they consulted that website? Those people will do it because they saw the gates closing in front of them and don't want the wait, just like they have always done. I very much doubt they...

Are you seriously saying that people would crash through closed barriers just because that website predicted they would be open at that time?

When I was there, London Underground had them towards the ends of less used but track-circuited sidings which were inclined to get rust on the railhead. They were just a zig-zag of weld bead for about a car length out from the buffers. It was to ensure the train wheels completed the track...

Where is Cooks?

In service maybe, but I was involved in train and track testing at one time and we were up and down the train constantly, including changing ends when in non-platform sidings. At the risk of giving too much information, as we were on board all day, and neither LU trains nor stations are well...

Being locked could be solved with the turn of a key. I believe the OP was asking if there were any better reasons for closing it.

Require them to report to an MoT test centre anyway, just to have the mileage taken. Seems to be a lot of heavy weather being made of this.