Driving and Roads

[EEPhil]

Karts do not have sophisticated electronics to run. As long as there is power to the spark plug then they are good to go.

That's why I added "Perhaps no" and recalled the Ruskie 'plane story.

 

[prpr]

I would enact a law that nobody can pursue an occupation (eg delivery rider) on L plates,

Yes, me too.

but that would just mean they do it without L plates.

Hmm, now that you mention that, I wonder how many of the ones using L plates actually have a provisional licence?

IIRC there were a few cases of the engine management system throwing a wobbly when the car passed a high-powered transmitter

I was at a venue, probably about 20 years ago now, with a moderate power transmitter on 2.6-ish GHz and it stopped somebody's white van from starting. I found this out when he came up to me and asked if I had such a device. I hadn't come across the effect before. I'm afraid ( ) he had to sit it out. It was on a fairly directional aerial, but I can't remember where his van was relative to my angle of point, or maybe the side-lobes were big enough regardless.

 

[EEPhil]

it stopped somebody's white van from starting.

You did the world a service that day.

 

[prpr]

You did the world a service that day.

The trouble is, I was in a white van too!

 

[EEPhil]

The trouble is, I was in a white van too!

Traitor!

 

[antipodean]

Yes I'd noticed about half of the illegal electric motorbikes around Cambridge are food delivery riders.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6214v92284o

See the last sentence ...