http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Sentient beings en Mon, 18 May 2026 23:56:35 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-376692 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:18:29 +0000 nevelbell 376692@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like the same car. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-376691 Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:08:26 +0000 Stickman 376691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Too many flipping cars recently. Yes, these are separate incidents. </p> <p>“Edinburgh car flips onto roof in city centre”</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-car-flips-onto-roof-30004809" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-car-flips-onto-roof-30004809</a></p> <p>“Edinburgh car flips on busy road by school”</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-car-flips-busy-road-29992591" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-car-flips-busy-road-29992591</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-366045 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:38:38 +0000 chdot 366045@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This <em>might</em> be appropriate here. </p> <p>“</p> <p>District judge John Zani agreed. Throwing the case out, he told the court: “I have given this careful consideration because it is an interesting point of law. </p> <p>“You have the cab and you have the trailer. The trailer is incapable of self-movement without input from the cab. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/25/olympic-gold-medal-winner-among-activists-freed-in-xr-protest-case" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/25/olympic-gold-medal-winner-among-activists-freed-in-xr-protest-case</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-365891 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:12:38 +0000 gembo 365891@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to have a great poster of a tiger when I was a wee boy, sponsored by Esso. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-365887 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:01:31 +0000 LaidBack 365887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Today's word is Motonormativity. In Guardian...<br /> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/motonormativity-britons-more-accepting-driving-related-risk" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/motonormativity-britons-more-accepting-driving-related-risk</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-356238 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:19:44 +0000 crowriver 356238@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No mention of a driver at the wheel of this car. Autonomous vehicles mowing down pedestrians again?</p> <p>---</p> <p>Woman and three children hit by car in South Lanarkshire</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59067379" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59067379</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-355900 Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:25:44 +0000 chdot 355900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The no tax bit is (apparently) untrue - misread digit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-355899 Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:15:55 +0000 gembo 355899@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This was a very bad Range Rover with a bald front tyre, no tax and a driver trying to kill people whilst also holding her phone </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-355896 Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:46:34 +0000 CocoShepherd 355896@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/video-shows-range-rover-pushing-insulate-britain-activist-at-sit-in" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/19/video-shows-range-rover-pushing-insulate-britain-activist-at-sit-in</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-350019 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:46:37 +0000 crowriver 350019@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Incredible deflection in this report. Apparently "a woman, 21, was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving" but otherwise no mention of a driver. What really raised my eyebrows was this sentence. </p> <p>"Residents blame the crashes on a sharp bend on Hungarton Boulevard, which forms part of Leicester's ring road"</p> <p>And then here's the coup de grace. The consensus is it's the road's fault. And those cars just can't help but crash themselves. Nothing to do with driver behaviour. (Though I do agree it seems some safety measures may be required).</p> <p>---</p> <p>Mr Thathyala said: "A neighbour told me this happened to the same house a few years ago. Exactly the same situation, same house. This is a busy road and at night - when it is quiet people speed down here. This is not safe for anybody. There needs to be some safety measures."</p> <p>Resident Moira Hampton said: "This may be the eighth time or more this bend on the ring road has contributed to damaging properties. Cars have driven off both sides of the road. This is the first time such a serious injury has happened. Residents, including me, are furious and terrified that somebody will be hurt again, or even killed."</p> <p>Claudia Webbe, Independent MP for Leicester East, said: "The fact you are inside your own home and you are not safe means that this road is too dangerous and it needs to be made safer."</p> <p>---</p> <p>Leicester mum's skull broken as car crashes into home</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-56872136" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-56872136</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-350017 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:27:43 +0000 acsimpson 350017@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/oxgangs-crash-woman-charged-after-car-crashes-into-house-in-edinburgh-3215339">Woman charged after car crashes into house in Edinburgh</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-346351 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:43:23 +0000 crowriver 346351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tragic case here for the two car occupants. Seems like no driver involved - another autonomous vehicle leaving the road? Software bug, perhaps.</p> <p>---<br /> River Trent search: Police recover two bodies from car</p> <p>Witnesses had reported seeing two occupants inside a car floating along the river after it left Hoveringham Road and entered the water.</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-56056006" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-56056006</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-346350 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:40:02 +0000 crowriver 346350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like those autonomous bus trials went ahead after all? Maybe need to "tweak" the programming a bit so they don't randomly leave the road.....well no mention of a driver so <em>must</em> be autonomous?</p> <p>---</p> <p>Two passengers taken to hospital after bus overturns on A90</p> <p>Two people were taken to hospital with minor injures after a bus left the road and overturned in Aberdeenshire.</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56057728" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56057728</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339405 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:04:37 +0000 CocoShepherd 339405@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-54676314">Car flips onto its roof in residential street in Glasgow</a>.</p> <p>Incredible if true.</p> <p>Edit: Must read recent posts in thread before posting :( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339350 Sat, 24 Oct 2020 18:24:56 +0000 crowriver 339350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"...it was unclear what had happened to the car."</p> <p>Aliens. Tractor beams. </p> <p>Obvs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339349 Sat, 24 Oct 2020 18:13:36 +0000 twinspark 339349@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cars are forever doing this....</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-54676314">Car Flips Over? - BBC News</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339158 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:06:35 +0000 davey2wheels 339158@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spotted a car parked on the fence/hedge bordering Musselburgh Racecourse along Linkfield Road this morning.<br /> It had a sign "Police Aware" stuck on the side. Perhaps "Road Aware" would be of better use. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339154 Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:57:47 +0000 gembo 339154@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A car has set itself on fire by driving itself into the barrier when it was trying to drive itself up the great western road in the Weege.</p> <p>In the car’s defence that is a tricky junction to get off the M8 from. If the car is not paying attention it has to get over 4 lanes of other cars to get to the slip road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339017 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:42:53 +0000 Frenchy 339017@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Image link: <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkSedupWoAErHfb?format=jpg&amp;name=small" rel="nofollow">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkSedupWoAErHfb?format=jpg&amp;name=small</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339016 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:40:10 +0000 pringlis 339016@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Took me a while to even work out how they did that at Stirling Station! There's a car park but with (I thought) fairly sturdy barriers and a row of planters. This picture shows where they went through the barrier - wheel marks show it must have been at some speed? Maybe went into first instead of reverse and just kept the foot down? Or pulling into space and put foot on accelerator rather than brake? Very odd. <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkSedupWoAErHfb?format=jpg&amp;name=small"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339015 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:31:41 +0000 acsimpson 339015@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's not the car's fault. The fencing forgot to check it had a ticket. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339013 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:24:02 +0000 Stickman 339013@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And another at Fort William!</p> <p><blockquote> Meanwhile, Scotrail has also reported that another car is on the railway line at Fort William.</blockquote></p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/rail-disruption-caused-two-cars-train-tracks-stirling-and-fort-william-3003054" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/rail-disruption-caused-two-cars-train-tracks-stirling-and-fort-william-3003054</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=18#post-339011 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:15:02 +0000 steveo 339011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Classic encroachment! Looks like they tried to smidsy a bloody train. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=17#post-339010 Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:53:22 +0000 Stickman 339010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote> A car has encroached onto the railway at Stirling. We're working closely with the emergency services</blockquote></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/scotrail/status/1316343606085644308?s=21" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/scotrail/status/1316343606085644308?s=21</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=17#post-338695 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:29:42 +0000 gembo 338695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A silver Mercedes car is reported to have behaved very badly in Muirhouse today, hitting two peds on a zebra crossing </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=17#post-338483 Sun, 04 Oct 2020 19:01:30 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 338483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Chipwrapper trolling us now. They <em>must</em> be.</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/car-flips-its-head-during-crash-quiet-edinburgh-street-2992393" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/car-flips-its-head-during-crash-quiet-edinburgh-street-2992393</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=17#post-338389 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 22:20:26 +0000 14Westfield 338389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Quite odd to see relative sense from such a bizzare tweet. I thought this bit stood out:</p> <p>“ These are all people who would never behave like this in real life – it’s a Twitter persona they’ve invented and flit effortlessly in and out of. I’ve taken on many of the above roles myself, and feel utterly ashamed for having done so.” </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=17#post-338366 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:08:02 +0000 Frenchy 338366@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Those drivers should really be glad that the wands are there. They'd have been quite likely to hit an expensive car, rather than a cheap bit of plastic, otherwise. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=17#post-338364 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:45:10 +0000 acsimpson 338364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Greenroofer, yes his blog post sounds reasoned and sensible until you realise he isn't taking his own advice:</p> <p><em>"The only valid reason for deleting a tweet would be if it contained a glaring factual error"</em></p> <p>Or perhaps he is</p> <p><em>"Don’t delete either – a user will have taken a screenshot anyway and then use the erasing of it against you. That just makes you look doubly pathetic."</em></p> <p>I suspect the first option has to be accompanied by an apology/withdrawal statement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11150&page=17#post-338361 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:18:49 +0000 Greenroofer 338361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I rather liked his blog post, which talked a lot of sense I thought. A stark contrast to the original Tweet... </p>