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From: Harry Bloomfield on 26 Nov 2009 17:12 Conor pretended : > How do you know its not just disappeared because thats where the beam > pattern ends? My beam pattern shows me enough of the road to be certain I can see all of it for between a quarter to a mile and a half ahead in dry conditions. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 26 Nov 2009 17:26 Conor used his keyboard to write : > 33,000,000 cars registered in the UK doing billions of miles annually. > How many caravans are there in the UK and what distance do they travel? How many is impossible to answer because none of them are registered. How many miles per year again there are no records. Mine does around 2 to 3K per year. I have on occasion logged 6K per year. Some tourers will be permanently sited and never move. I don't really see any connection between the mileage covered and the likelihood of a caravan being dumped at the side of a road. As said, I saw one last year. Judging by it condition, I doubt it was anywhere near fit to be taken on a public road when it set off. I cannot remember seeing one dumped like that for a good many years before it - even scrap caravans have some value. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 26 Nov 2009 17:33 Conor used his keyboard to write : > In article <mn.cd777d9bcd3bb94e.106911(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk>, Harry > Bloomfield says... >> >> Conor was thinking very hard : >>>> The point is to be able to see ahead of the vehicle ahead of you, to >>>> enable you to make an initial judgement of the road ahead - once that >>>> is done and the maneuver started, you do not need their lights any >>>> more. >>>> >>> So you can see through solid metal? >> >> No I cannot, but I can see over, under, to their left and to their >> right - it is called positioning for best forward vision and I always >> make full use of it, whether preparing for an overtake or not. > > > But the only side you can look down without pulling into the lane you're > going to use to overtake is the inside and even then, only on a left > hand bend. So you never look down the right on a right hand bend, no under them when they go over a rise, nor over them as they go down into a dip? -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 26 Nov 2009 17:38 Conor explained on 26/11/2009 : > In article <TMSdnXoM9Ls-XJDWnZ2dnUVZ7tFi4p2d(a)giganews.com>, Ray Keattch > says... > >> The high beam helps the driver behind to see further ahead > > Rubbish. Clue: Big lump of metal in the way. Line of sight. Rubbish. Even bigger clue you look around the big lump of metal. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Pip Luscher on 26 Nov 2009 17:39
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:31:01 +0000 (UTC), boltar2003(a)yahoo.co.uk wrote: >Ok fine , my history needs improving. The point is that the roads even when >county councils had the chance were never straightened but instead still >follow the old trackways which in turn generally follow old field boundaries >or the whims of the local drovers. What might have been convenient for >shifting cattle 300 years ago to avoid boggy ground or whatever is irrelevant >for modern vehicles on tarmac roads. If the railways generally can be built >straight or with gentle curves so can the roads. So take a train. >I dread to think of the >amount of fuel wasted by all manor of vehicles constantly slowing down for >endless bends in the road then having to speed up again. Even the bloody >motorways in this country can't be built straight FFS even though compulsary >land purchase is a must with these projects anyway. That's fine if all you ever want to do is get from A to B. For many, the journey itself is also a destination. -- -Pip |