A world of indifferences

[Tony Griffiths]

Prosthetic arms? One of my sons, who was doing a lot of autoroute driving had (before getting an electronic toll tag), a trigger-operated grabber to reach through the passenger-side window and seize the ticket at peage stations. Needless to say, the sight of this unit emerging from the car in front often caused great hilarity amongst the occupants of the car behind. So, buy a grabber, fasten a large union jack to it and wave that out of the window. It's bound to be seen - unless the driver behind is, of course, once more scrolling through the five-hundred options on his dash-mounted computer system...

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i find locally motorcyclist are pretty good. perhaps because so many use there bikes for pleasure, rather than just maniacs on there way to work.

i know some will frown, but i use all my cars without any sort of indicators. and usually just one rear light. yes the little AT201. even in the dark.

when indicating, i really swing my arms about. so hopefully im seen. even if it just drivers thinking whats that idiot doing.

perhaps i was just lucky, as all the idiot in the country were on bournemouth beach.

tony

Reading through some old A7CA Grey Mags I see reports of people being killed in Austin Sevens when run into from behind. At night, a couple of those super-bright red cycle clipped to the car might help avoid such a tragedy.

[Hugh Barnes]

I have fitted one of these to the back of the Cabriolet -

https://www.probikekit.co.uk/cycling-acc...lsrc=aw.ds

specifically for when I drove to Scotland last year and there were going to be parts of that journey where it would have been difficult to avoid the A1. It proved very effective during daylight hours and it was clear that vehicles (particularly trucks) were pulling out well in advance to pull past me.

However, given the intensity of some lights such as these I would caution against using them at night unless careful choice of either lamp or intensity setting has been considered...

[Tony Griffiths]

That looks to have been an excellent choice. I mounted a smaller one on my modern motorcycle (bulb-failure warning fitted) so that at night, in the rain and cold, if the rear bulb did fail, I could just click it on and continue without the bother of having to dismantle things at the side of the road.

[Dave Mann]

I don't blame you Malcolm, Stockport is a veritable rabbit warren with useless road signage for visitors. I recently read something about once you have learnt to ride a bicycle, it is a skill you never loose. Unfortunately the same doesn't apply to car driving, on a trip through Stockport yesterday I never got the Seven into top gear, there wasn't much traffic but what there was was painfully slow even by Seven standards. On the return there was a bus in the NS lane indicating to turn out to move into the turn right lane which he was approaching. A whole string of cars just blocked him until I stopped the Seven to let him out. I always let buses and HGVs out and benefit from the Seven being somewhat distinctive I find they let me out.
The correct use of indicators is declining, I've yet to see a car correctly indicate it's intentions at a local roundabout.

[Mike Costigan]

The standard approach today seems not to use indicators to show intention, but rather to show, presumably with some satisfaction, what has just been achieved.

[Charles P]

I've recently put indicators on the Ulster - at the back because they unobtrusively fitted into the lamp clusters and I can't see eyes of the people behind. At the front I rely upon eye contact and arm signals - much easier in an open car. I do however have brake lights which were an upgrade fitted when I made the brakes work well.
I'm convinced that 90% of road users can't differentiate between turning left and slowing down. If I have a passenger I sometimes ask them to make assertive LH turn signals. It works well.

Charles

[Tony Griffiths]

It's worse in Switzerland - the idea of using indicators on roundabouts just does not exist. Having said that, the government publish a list of all car owners and their addresses - so, polite driving all the time (well, mostly...)[url=http://%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ10qGzynGk][/url] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ10qGzynGk

[Mike Costigan]

... Having said that, the government publish a list of all car owners and their addresses - so, polite driving all the time (well, mostly...)[url=http://%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ10qGzynGk][/url] 

How does that square with the Data Protection Act? If they are free to publish that sort of information, why will the DVLA not divulge past owners details?

[Michael D]

the only hand signals recognized by todays generations are the ones where the middle finger is involved....

[Charles P]

... Having said that, the government publish a list of all car owners and their addresses - so, polite driving all the time (well, mostly...)[url=http://%20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ10qGzynGk][/url] 

How does that square with the Data Protection Act? If they are free to publish that sort of information, why will the DVLA not divulge past owners details?

Not in the EU so not subject to GDPR.
They do however comply with enough of the GDPR pricinciples to be considered an "adequate" country, like Norway or Andorra and therefore has some alignment.
You did ask.......