Geolocation tech to save 60 Londoners from being run over next year The Metropolitan Police will be using software from Croydon-based GGP Systems to analyse road traffic accidents in the capital, continuing a 30-year-old process to minimise road deaths. The plan is to reduce the number people being killed and seriously injured on London's roads by 40 per cent by 2020. That's Mayor Boris …
" You want to kill people, is that what you're saying?"
No, I think JaitcH was just announcing to the world that he's a bitter twat, part of that section of the population that think Mrs Thatcher is to blame for everything. Obviously he was (at best) in short trousers at the time, and can't remember the loony behaviours of the GLC, and its mates in third world hell holes like Brent and Haringey.
Wrote :- "Death penalty for failure to use indicators."
Using indicators would also save a lot of time/holdups. Many a time I could have pulled out of a junction if only I had known that an approaching car was going to turn into it.
However, in many people's minds, giving indications is like showing your cards in a game of poker.
Indeed, hence BRAKE, indicate, SWERVE
IIRC the road code says indicators have to be on 3 seconds before beginning the manouvere - where "beginning" is the slowing down part. It's certainly the way I was taught - and police in my part of the world would have strong words with anyone they saw who failed to use 'em (The explanation is that it allowed them to check for other stuff like drunk driving/untaxed/unlicenced/bald tyres/etc, which usually go with poor driving.)
I believe you can be fined for failing to use indicators or hit with careless driving charges if things get bad enough - and with the proliferation of dashcams it's not going to be long before we see reports in the Daily Fail about some motorist convicted on the basis of what the cam recorded.
You have hit the nail on the head. Up here around the land of "Jam, Jute and Journalism" there seem to be three types of driver - the ones that completely ignore the indicator stalk, the ones that use the indicator stalk as a "curry hook", and people that don't come from here originally - with the former in the majority. I don't know what the locals are taught, but it isn't the same Highway Code I know ... even (some) driving instructors omit the use of indicators!
But....it's not their fault!
I find it barely credible that car manufacturers can actually offer most of their models, with indicators as an Optional Extra, and those poor wee souls, who want a decent car on a low budget, obviously take the alloys before indicators option...I mean, who wouldn't.
So please...don't fume at those who don't indicate, it's not their fault......really.
"The plan is to reduce the number people being killed and seriously injured on London's roads by 40 per cent by 2020. That's Mayor Boris Johnson's intention, but making it happen is largely down to the police." by standing on every street corner and stopping the f*cking retard from stepping out without looking!
Leave them to get splattered! Stop trying to save everyone.
I would suggest that we highlight the parents of those retards who are hit, and make sure eeryone knows just how bad they are at parenting. Highlight their schools and their teachers who clearly failed to get the road safety lessons through to them.
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