It might change gear very quickly, but it does not (cannot) anticipate. If you don't anticipate hills you are relying on raw power to overcome the lack of anticipation, and if you don't anticipate bends you have no chance to balance the car ready for the bend. If these are foreign concepts to you, you're not making full use of it.
Bristol and Bournemouth (to name but two) are rapidly installing a network of divided roads, where width has been taken away from the carriageway (thereby making it impossible to pass buses at bus stops) and given to dedicated cycle lanes. The number of cycles in these lanes (or anywhere) is vanishingly small except in the few summer months.
Says a lot when my first reading of this has me asking "What's the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's vehicles got to do with it?"
That's how I get around town without too much trouble from cyclists and **** pedestrians.
Similar problem in Notts. Then the cyclists use the pavements instead of the cycle lanes. There's barely a day goes by when a f*@#ing cyclist nearly hits me whilst I'm on the pavement.
Don't slag us off too much. Don't you become one when you get out of your ICE-mobile?
Oh come on, do keep up!Says a lot when my first reading of this has me asking "What's the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's vehicles got to do with it?"
Doh! Infernal Combustion Engine [sic] of course.
I live in Cambridge, there are bicycles all over the place all the time. It is the cycling capital of the UK.
I've cycled 40 minutes each way to the dentist, and also to a checkup at Addenbrookes hospital. But I knew these were routine appointments, not all hospital visits are when you are in no state to be cycling. As for doing it in 10 minutes by car, a) in traffic in Cambridge it can take just as long by car and b) the exercise is good for you.
Electric scooters are either illegal to ride anywhere other than private land, or if they are part of an official government approved rental scheme they're allowed anywhere bicycles are, which includes the road but definitely not the pavement.
I'll slag off the ones who interpret the new Highway Code as meaning they have license to step off the kerb any time they like (don't get me started on the new Highway Code)!
Oxford is even more anti-car than Cambridge.
At a side road where it joins a larger road pedestrians do have the right to step off the kerb any time they like to cross the side road. And I exercise that right, after having looked to check I'm not going to be run over. Drivers are supposed to stop if it looks like the pedestrian is going to cross, even if they are still on the pavement.
Yes, but not elsewhere.
That's what's wrong with the new Highway Code (I said don't get me started). It is perfectly foreseeable that a driver could be in the process of turning across a stream of traffic and then be obliged to stop in the path of traffic. Very, very bad.
Or even more confusingly given it is in the same context In-Car Entertainment fitted in modern cars that supercedes the old-fashioned car radio.Says a lot when my first reading of this has me asking "What's the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's vehicles got to do with it?"
Doh! Infernal Combustion Engine [sic] of course.
So those semi-legal thugs in the USA, ICE, could have ICE in their ICE.
Indeed, it's not everywhere it is at junctions with side roads.
I must admit I have concerns about that too.
That's entirely correct, the new Highway Code places the responsibility on the person in charge of the thing that can do most damage.