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  1. cb
    Member

    Scene: Mrs cb in a taxi on Oswald Road

    Taxi driver (irately, motioning to car in front): What's the point in buying a 4x4 if you're going to drive around at 27mph?

    Mrs cb: It's a twenty mph speed limit.

    Taxi driver: What?! No it's not, when did it become 20.

    Mrs cb: Several months ago.

    Taxi driver: Well, no one wants to hire a taxi and be driven around at 27 mph.

    Mrs cb: I didn't realise there was a different speed limit for taxis.

    Taxi driver (throwing his hands up): Look, forget it alright!

    Taxi then proceeds at 20mph along the next 30mph road to 'make a point'.

    ...
    Mrs cb told it better than that; the actual exchange was longer.
    ...And he was on his phone at one point of the journey.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. wingpig
    Member

    "Taxi driver (irately, motioning to car in front): What's the point in buying a 4x4 if you're going to drive around at 27mph?"

    I'm not good at seeing things from a taxi driver's perspective: does this mean that he thought the 4*4 should have been going faster, maybe varying its speed more rather than going at 27mph all the time or that it should have been going slower, though perhaps over bumpier ground?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. kaputnik
    Moderator

    What's the point in a speed limit if you can't drive faster than it?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. mgj
    Member

    Presumably a 4x4 can go faster over speedbumps?

    Takes a lot to complain about speed while in a taxi; I still remember coming back through Sciennes after Mary Poppins with the family and being terrified as he did 40+ in what was even then a 20 zone. We were just glad to get home. He was on the phone much of the time too.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Scottish Police call for cars with in-built speed restrictors

    SENIOR police officers want cruise control to be mandatory in all cars to help drivers stick to speed limits in areas near schools.

    The Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (Asps)is also calling for “black boxes” to be fitted in vehicles driven by younger motorists with the data they collect used to calculate insurance premiums.

    The recommendations have been made following the devolution of powers over setting speeds limit to the Scottish Parliament. The Asps wants MSPs to also consider legislation to force manufacturers to install more car safety technology.

    It wants manufacturers to commit to creating cars with in-built speed restrictors to cut road deaths by forcing drivers to keep below national limits...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    "The Idiot Wing would be better employed making the roads safer, e.g. by expediting the upgrade of the A9 and A96, and stop wasting money by tinkering at the edges"

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    "Speed limiters don't make people stick to speed limits, you have to faff around setting them, and when set they discourage small adjustments in speed to deal with whatever is happening on the road"

    Words. In brain. Must hit keyboard with fists.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Hahahahaha! This is priceless!

    "The largest group causing accidents and road fatalities is police"

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    "I guess that varying the pressure on the accelerator, according to traffic and road conditions, isn't technically sophisticated enough for Chief Superintendent David O’Connor andThe Association of Scottish Police Superintendents!!!"

    Yes Mr Froth, because a speed limiter means the car only drives at that speed.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. wingpig
    Member

    Can you not request to get the Scotsman's URL blocked for your login at work in case it sets you off?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    New name, new start. They're funny. (though I might start ranting on Blip again, I've come round to thinking that used to be my release valve, and since I stopped doing it I've become more narky in general - well, it's a theory).

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. chdot
    Admin

    "used to be my release valve, and since I stopped doing it I've become more narky in general"

    Need a new hobby - or cycle more.

    Might get better if the rain stops.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. Tom
    Member

    chdot: "Might get better if the rain stops"

    When I were a lad it was "when the rain stops".

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. chdot
    Admin

    "When I were a lad it was "when the rain stops"."

    Ah the good old days - when seasons knew their place...

    Posted 13 years ago #

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