Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 07, 2021, 14:37:29 PM

If you do mega miles it perhaps makes sense, I just don't like being disengaged from driving. There are too many distractions and conveniences now that trivialise driving to the point where you can easily lapse in concentration IMO. I like to remain focused at all times, especially now I have kids in the back.

One of my brothers had a not safe driving issue. Then he got a daughter. She taught him to be careful.

Even with the best modern driving aids you still have to keep your eyes on the road. Eventually there might be the option of fully automatic driving and it might become legal to have it in control rather than you, but not yet. We might even have functional self drive air cars before then.

Interesting lead to all the new cars with digital displays. Mercedes taking queues from Tesla and then some as well as BMW. I wonder how this will all effect driving attention. New Merc's even have RGB going on.

wait where did I come into it?

I've only been in once accident, wasn't my fault !

the multiple bans for having too many points (speeding) have nothing to do with anything....

Been in a similar crash, twice on the same day.

Car actually still ran, surprisingly, but not well and was declared a write off by insurance.

This can happen, it's traveling slightly too fast for the conditions. No point in lying about it, someone is almost guaranteed to have a camera and find you out.

Even without that it is obvious from a tail end collision who is responsible in that location.

You sacking him then for lying?

for now he's taken a pay cut to cover some of the cost

If you do mega miles it perhaps makes sense, I just don't like being disengaged from driving. There are too many distractions and conveniences now that trivialise driving to the point where you can easily lapse in concentration IMO. I like to remain focused at all times, especially now I have kids in the back.

The inference here is that I am disengaged from driving and that I don't remain focused at all times. You could make your point without slinging mud there Nige.

There's a reason they use autopilot in aircraft, and why when performing landing and take offs (statistically the most dangerous part of the flight) flight computers are increasingly including modes that automate much of the minutia of flying an aircraft, no different to driving a vehicle.

You know what?  I welcome the arrival of the electric age.
I'm a through and through petrol head, I have 5 cars, 2 motorbikes, I've owned stuff with the engines that everyone wants, BOA's VQ's, RB's, K20's and 2J.

if it means the end of tromboning DSG gearboxes and everyone and their mum having pop bang tunes on pointless cars, I'm all for it.
Also, it means car companies can get creative with the look of the cars.

Look at the new Citroen Ami for example.
Also, I think one of the designers at Hyundai managed to find a brick of cocaine and has been sharing it around the office.  And I'm here for that.

Look at the Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6 and the new "Vision 74" Concept.  Yeah, you may think it's just a prototype, but take a look at the Hyundai 45 and the Prophecy.  Those are now real cars.

Battery technology needs to change, and it is doing.  We need less reliance on rare earth minerals and a way to charge them quicker.

Motorbikes on the other hand are going to be a difficult sell.  People don't use them in the same way as cars.  Are they going to fit layby's with tens of chargers?  Every cafe/greasy spoon etc?  As that's what we do with them.  We'll do 100-200 miles a day, at high revs and stop for tea, bit of cake, fish and chips etc at the sea side. 

And so what if people are inattentive when they drive. I'm not saying you are M3ta, but there is no doubt that there are some people out there don't have the foggiest idea what they're doing behind the wheel, and they don't care.
Why not let the car take over for those people who's phone is permanently glued to their hands.

It's something a lot of people don't enjoy, or see as only a necessity and have no desire to get better at it.
Driving standards as a whole have gone down dramatically. There's too many distractions and people don't know how to be bored, or concentrate.