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 Topic: Driving with satnav can cause blindness to other hazards |
Gl3n
Replies: 14
Views: 9193
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 Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:05 pm Subject: Driving with satnav can cause blindness to other hazards |
| Have to agree. Nearly had a head on the other day as the other driver was on the wrong side of the road going the wrong way through a junction (as in the wrong side of the small island/bollard) and pe ... |
| Topic: Motorways Trial New Speed Limit As Nearly Half Exceed 70 MPH |
Gl3n
Replies: 46
Views: 23095
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Forum: Non-Technical Speed Camera Discussions Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:53 am Subject: Clearer signage and reasonable adjustments for conditions |
| My only speeding ticket was for doing 76 on a motorway, on a Sunday morning, with no other cars on the road. I'm not saying I shouldn't have got a ticket but the conditions were dry and visibility wer ... |
| Topic: Is Technology Becoming A Distraction? |
Gl3n
Replies: 10
Views: 6777
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:43 pm Subject: Drivers get distracted by anything |
| When you still see people using hand-held phones in cars whilst driving and the police don't do anythingwhen they see that this sort of law becomes pointless. I have seen someone jump a red light whil ... |
| Topic: New Location Sharing Service - Glympse - And We Like It |
Gl3n
Replies: 22
Views: 15174
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:25 pm Subject: Works really well |
| Been using this for a while and it is really useful for letting people know where you are and how long you are likely to be before you get there. Not had the chance to test it from tyhe recipient side ... |
| Topic: Average Speed Cameras to Save the World? |
Gl3n
Replies: 26
Views: 19069
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Forum: Non-Technical Speed Camera Discussions Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:46 pm Subject: 70mph suitable for every car? |
| From personal experience driving through Germany (to Munich) at over 70mph for quite a bit that distance I have got about 500 miles out of a tank of fuel. With similar traffic conditions and keeping t ... |
| Topic: Speed Camera Support Declines |
Gl3n
Replies: 6
Views: 3421
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:15 pm Subject: It is what they don't catch |
| The trouble with cameras is that there is no discretion used as to the road conditions and any other circumstances. More police cars or checks for people using phones, being drunk or using drugs would ... |
| Topic: TomTom release v8.350 for GO x20, GO x30 and GO x40 |
Gl3n
Replies: 582
Views: 221381
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 6:14 pm Subject: Car symbol goes missing when turning |
| I have a 930 and since the update whenever I turn a corner the maps flicker and the car symbol disappears for about a second and then returns. Only noticed this since the update as flicker is distract ... |
| Topic: SatNavs and Speed Cameras: Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics? |
Gl3n
Replies: 22
Views: 20805
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:25 pm Subject: SatNavs and Speed Cameras: Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics? |
| I find the use of speed cameras really frustrating. If they were genuinely used for saftey reasons drivers would accept them but as they are not there is a resentment against them. If they were outsid ... |
| Topic: Change in UK Law to Render Mobile Database Useless? |
Gl3n
Replies: 205
Views: 73699
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Forum: News And Latest Information Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:06 pm Subject: It just gets worse |
| This news just makes me fume. I find the use cameras in the UK frustrating. There are a couple of cameras near Edinburgh that were placed on an underpass when it was being built - three accidents? - y ... |
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