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Thread drift alert... the BMW we got as a hire car in the summer didn't have a "flash three times if you tap the indicator" feature... if you tapped the indicator it flashed once. So the jokes about BMWs not being fitted with indicators have some basis....
It also had once of those things where the engine would turn off at traffic lights - so long as you kept your foot on the brake. Put the handbrake on and take your foot of the footbrake and lo and behold the engine would start...
Our Mini has the single flash indicator (being a BMW) but you can change it to three flashes with the onboard computer.
Our start stop is completely different though (weirdly). Stop, handbrake on, foot off the clutch and the engines switches off, switches back on the moment you touch the clutch again (the other pedals made no difference).
Strangest comment on YouTube thus far. "Have you considered that the saign was for the safety of pedestrians. It's not all about cyclists you know."
I'm struggling to think about how and why the sign would be for the safety of pedestrians (answers on a postcard please). It was also pointed out something along the lines of things have to be for the benefit of everyone, which would be why I put it on the grass - it's still out of the way of pedestrians, it's now out of the way of cyclists, and it can still be seen by motorists. Job's a good 'un.
The roadworks are gone completely today - so they never actually got onto the road, just on the pavement, and as has been pointed out there's a better and wider pavement running parallel just metres away. Weird weird weird.
answers on a postcard please
Well, those yellow trench covers are trip hazards, after all. However, by putting the sign next to the pavement rather than in the road you've probably made it more visisble for pedestrians. :-)
WC, it sounds as if your stop/start feature works correctly unlike fimm's hire car which worked in the same way as the Mercedes hire car I had in the summer.
Only stopping the engine when your foot is on the brake is pointless for people who know how to drive correctly ;-)
As if people need any encouragement to sit with their foot on the brake - put the hand brake on!
As if people need any encouragement to sit with their foot on the brake - put the hand brake on!
Do people still do that? Every car that comes up behind me on a hill seems to be held on the clutch!
I guess the brake pedal controlling the on-off would make sense in an automatic? Or putting it into neutral I guess.
"Every car that comes up behind me on a hill seems to be held on the clutch!"
And not held very well - the amount of rocking back and forth it's a wonder it doesn't cause seasickness...
As if people need any encouragement to sit with their foot on the brake - put the hand brake on!
Do people still do that? Every car that comes up behind me on a hill seems to be held on the clutch!
I sit with my foot on the brake, I have one off those stupid electronic hand brakes which doesn't release when you touch the accelerator.
Also the button is in the wrong place to easily reach, to en/disengage the handbrake.
I suspect your car is probably designed the way people actually use their cars rather than how they should. One of these days I'm going to organise my Facebook campaign to have the driver behind the folk on their brakes put their full beams on till the hand brake is engaged... Its a pet hate.
I was thinking about full beams last night as I got constantly dazzled. Some sort of thing that the fullbeam is on a timer under 30mph and fades off after 5 seconds or whatever. Full beams seem to be many people's default setting for in town driving, not helped by how retina-burningly bright many modern HID lights are.
^^ This and fog lights!!
At of what look like fog lights are now the manditory daytime running lights that new cars have to come with.
"Full beams seem to be many people's default setting for in town driving"
I think you mean dipped? Pretty rare to see full beams in town in my opinon.
"Facebook campaign to have the driver behind the folk on their brakes put their full beams on till the hand brake is engaged"
I do this sometimes when I'm feeling grumpy but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Sometimes I hold my hand to shield my eyes from the red glare, but they don't see to see this either. Or maybe they do and just put me down as whiney.
Where else are you going to go on that corner? Surely a diversion sign is only necessary when turning off the principal road?
Exactly, and a point I made a while back about this sign. And yet someone still deems it "necessary"...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13183882@N03/11328371846
I might need help with this (pun not intended). I have notified the council on the problems with the road page but no answer. maybe on problems with waste?
I would have moved it myself if I were Andre the Giant
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