Forgive me father gembo, for I have sinned.
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Campaign Against Long Cars (CALC)
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Posted 4 years ago #
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You’ve bought a car over 3metres?
Seems unlikely?
You’ve hired a car over 3 metres that you have driven in to Edinburgh on your tod?
Maybe
As our saviour says Let he who is without sin cast the first stone (Rock hits him, - Mammy you can be a right pain in the bahookie sometimes - BC probably written by BC)
I confess I have recently been driven in a very long car. 4.8metres THough out of ERdinburgh and with Tom and Urchaidh. ANd bikes. BUT it was very useful vehicle given all the bags and additional roof bars and Kelly Kettles.
Posted 4 years ago # -
However unlikely it may seem, you were indeed correct with your first conjecture. In fact, it is not just a long car, but also a wide car... I had been agonising about this for some time, but given that I am the only family member who can drive and that most of my family require inconvenient trips on public transport to visit one another given ideal circumstances, it seemed like a reasonable solution during these virulent times. It won't be in town with a single occupant often though and I will be sharing it with friends to some extent so it won't be parked on the street quite as much as it could have been.
Posted 4 years ago # -
hmmmmmm
McR vehicle comes in at 0.002359611 of a Nautical mile. Would definitely fall victim to the New Town Crusher. Seems only fair.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Can I watch as it's reduced in size?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Sure there must be some way of maintaining some of the structural strength/protective qualities of a car whilst allowing it to be resized according to the number of occupants. If the boot section, rear seat section and passenger side could be collapsed then they would only take up one personsworth of space (plus the engine space in all configurations) if they were only carrying one person. If they ended up slightly weaker then all the more reason to limit their maximum speed to one the shells could cope with in their weakest configuration. Likewise if they ended up a bit more noisy or draughty then people might think to use them a little less just instead of a coat or umbrella.
Posted 4 years ago # -
From a recent GoBike exchange with Glasgow CC over an outbreak of speed cushions it seems they're now having to use wider speed cushions (because of wide cars) meaning there's less space left to avoid the things when cycling.
The chancellor's looking for extra revenue streams.
How about powering up the CAWALC by starting a campaign for VED to be proportional (exponentially) to the road area occupied? (As well as emissions, obviously.)Posted 4 years ago # -
VED should be proportional to the fourth power of the axle loading.
Plus the area, plus the emissions.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Would the Dune worms from the other thread fall foul of this campaign, or would they pass on the basis of multiple occupancy?
Posted 4 years ago # -
@nonrakes, thanks for spicing up this thread.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Dune worms have no axles so that's either infinite load or none at all depending on how you write the policy.
I struggle to see how wear and tear isn't increased by reducing tyre contact patch area. What would be the point of 4 tyre axles otherwise. Could there be an assumption in the original paper that all vehicles had the same tyre size?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Gembo Muad Dib!
Posted 4 years ago # -
@Iwrats -Paul Atreides?
Or
What you talkin about Willis?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Gembo Atreides later known as Gembo Muad'Dib (I checked the spelling this time.)
Posted 4 years ago # -
Could you not consider a worm's long axis it's axis for mathematical purposes?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Dune worms have no axles
Reference required, dude. Reference re-quired.
Posted 4 years ago # -
You caught me out on that one. I based my statement on Tremors but perhaps the terrestrial version is different.
Posted 4 years ago # -
An elegant back-pedal. And bonus points for the Tremors mention. True fact: the sexy seismologist was arrested for having stolen credit cards in a stolen two-axle car and is not doing so well these days.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Tremors came out over 30 years ago and she is still referred to as Finn Carter who stared in Tremors. That's despite a reasonably length list of films I have never heard of being release since. I guess something in her finally snapped and she wanted her name in the headlines again.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@acsimpson, not sure that's how committing felonies works, TBH.
Something clearly happened, but we don't know why.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Mrs Garto had hilarious dream last night during the thunder snow where she bought a car over the phone and it turned out to be very long indeed. Did not even have sensors for reversing and wasn’t an automatic. The vendor declined to take it back apart from the obvious JG Ballard Freudian connotations this dream was also hysterical given my CALC.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Spotted a BMW Iseta driving through Newington, in red and white. Three wheels.
Have advanced Proptype of The Crusher that narrows cars to two metres though driver and passenger need to sit very still and close Or There will be blood.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Campaign Against Wide Cars won today in little hamlet just north of Firbank which is a little hamlet five miles south of Tebay on the M6. Cumbria. A Landrover Discovery driver had decided to try a very normal road in Terms of normal cars and cyclists and pedestrians off a slightly wider twin tracked road.
Much to my extreme chagrin as I was walking up to the smaller hamlet north of the small hamlet of Firbank I was able to spot that the Landrover Discovery driver had got himself stuck on the bridge that was signposted Weak Bridge. Turned out his car was too wide for the road. what a shame.
Posted 1 year ago #
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