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andycwb:

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Come on people, if you're having to emergency brake on the central reservation to avoid stationary vehicles then you're either driving faster than your capabilities allow, or you're leaving far too small a gap, or you're just a bloody idiot.
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Or quite possibly all three.  

I've been in my share of emergency braking situations and I'm usually more worried about the guy behind me stopping than I am about the car in front.   I've hear some really scary stories from people who could see the guy behind them couldn't stop and have had to get out of the way any way they can.  

One of the guys in the office here was ranting about having a scary moment when he came around a corner on a country line to find someone on the wrong side of the road coming towards him.  Fortunately, the other guy got out of the way in time, but I asked "if he'd been stationary, could you have stopped in time?".  

"No"

"Then you were driving too fast, weren't you".

That ended the rant :-)

Range Rover Blues:
Absolutely.

I find it quite alarming, there are cars out there now that if you brake hard, take over the braking and put the hazards on for you, some are still being bought by instructors too.  I just want my EAS to go into extended mode if I brake hard to a halt, just in case the muppet behind hasn't seen me, after all Range Rovers are invisible, aren't they?

In the 3 years we've had Blue (the spanish inquisition) it's had run-ins with about 5 other cars, I've lost count TBH and as for the near-misses :roll:

Lato kne was funny though, a guy on my RHS wanted the exit to my left, so decided to 'race' rouond the front and change lanes (crossing my lane).  He didn't make it :(


I only knew he hadn't because I saw his roof going sideways, the rest of his car being obscured by my bonnet.  He was adamant it was my fault too, t!t.

I also had a giuy back a samll people carrier into me in a carpark, best bit was his wife was guiding him back, straight into the car.  Didn't even appologise for leaving his paint on my bumper :roll:

Terminus:
Wherever there's a road there will always be people who have no idea how to use it  :lol:

I once watched someone in a Ford Puma fumbling about in the passenger floorwell whilst hammering down a dual carriageway (turned out she was looking for her mobile phone- even better).  

It was no great surprise then that she lost control, executed what has to be the most accidentally perfect and most life savingly lucky 180 degree spin (missing a car behind her) to come to a halt facing the opposite way in the only gap in the central reservation for miles!! :shock:  :shock:

She was told how lucky she was and her day only got worse from there  :lol:

rangerider:
If you really want to become invisible at junctions.........


Put L plates on!   2 tons of disco, lights on, and I still cant be seen. :cry: if only it had the same effect on extortion charge cameras.

Jake:
You really need to get rid of the stealth mode form your car!
 :shock:
Its no good for day to day useage
 :evil:

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