Clarkson is gonna love this...
Changes to the Highway Code forthcoming.
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https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1807/regulation/4/made
From a safety point of view they are the worse combination of motorbike and car.
Stop like a scooter, corner like a tractor and all the protection of a moped.
No one knows yet, there's going to be a consultation to work out what they should be.
My thoughts: As long as Autonomous vehicles are safer than human operated ones then we're going to allow them. That doesn't mean they have to be perfectly safe, just better. Insurance companies will find a way.
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We'd have had them in trains years ago, but its heavily unionised.
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By expensive outsourced 'consultants' who just happen to be mates of the tory party!
To not pay up!
That's a good comparison, Trains were easier to automate but when we could, we did. Now we're almost ready to do the same with cars on motorways.
I'm not seeing much in the way of actual changes, rather what is there already has been reworded for the hard of thinking and those sadly lacking in common sense.
I has always been the case that you give way to pedestrians when turning into or pulling out of a side road, but many drivers fail to understand this and expect pedestrians to get out of their way. It has always been common sense to slow down for horses and give adequate space to cyclists, why should drivers need to be told?
I has always been the case that you give way to pedestrians when turning into or pulling out of a side road, but many drivers fail to understand this and expect pedestrians to get out of their way. It has always been common sense to slow down for horses and give adequate space to cyclists, why should drivers need to be told?
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They were discussing autonomous cars on the telly the other day. 2 of folks on the show had teslas, both reported an issue in overtaking lorries in the middle lane. When trying to accelerate to overtake the speed limited lorries the car was applying the brakes as the sensors were picking up and recognising the 50 mph speed restriction sign on the back of the lorry and mistaking it for a road speed limit.
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Read it again, dont just skim through it.
What it is suggesting is there.
Read after the word "introduction"
Can you steer a train?
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Boeing managed to "steer" their 737 Max's into the ground. Not sure I'd put too much trust in technology per se. It's recognised that the interface between computer systems and the real world is challenging.
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Yes along with bicycles, quads, horses, tractors and trucks. Oh and for JohnD the reason why motor cyclists have more accidents is because they only have two wheels and a large proportion of the riders are idiots on the roads.
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Trains are a lot easier than roads.
I never read it or even skimmed through it. It's just a load of text, I may as well just read the highway code.Read it again, dont just skim through it.
What it is suggesting is there.
Read after the word "introduction"
I just thought it would be useful to just link us to the proposed changes. There's plumbers here on £150/ hour, and that will cost £75 to read.
Penalise the uninsured car drivers - some years ago one took me out off my bike - took 4 years to get a c*** payout from the Motor Insurers Bureau
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