Every so often we have issues with the local tram service because someone has driven up the line of a section where there is no shared space with road traffic and got stuck, despite it being very obvious from the signage, road markings and eventually a lack of suitable ground to drive on that you shouldn’t be driving there.
Agreed that a bollard would definitely help here but it worries me to the state of mind of some of the drivers on our roads. Surely it was obvious that an already narrow path was narrowing further and to stop before wedging your large car between a bench and a fence?!
This community would probably have no content if massive idiots didn’t exist
Mumbles councillor Will Thomas said it happened on Friday night and had happened twice before
Bollard time at entrances, I guess (or more benches)
I think grandad needs to hand his licence in.
I don’t understand people who lose all sense of reason and logic when they use satnav.
Satnav is first and foremost an aid, it doesn’t replace your responsibility as a driver to actually look and figure out what is resonable when driving.
If I am confused while driving, with or without a satnav, I ignore it and find a parking spot so I can calmly check out what is going on with the route.
I’d rather take the wrong turn safely and have to drive back a bit than listen to bad advice and drive down a bad road.
SatNav is a voice of authority telling you what to do.
The amount of people that turn off their brain and completely cave to a voice of authority, regardless of the consequences, is disturbingly high… as the Milgram Experiment shows.
As soon as I got my car, I turned off the voice in google maps, I like having the directions, but I hate having a voice telling me what to do
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Unfortunately this extremely correct line of thinking and practice is only performed by the super vast minority of drivers. People are absolutely stupid anymore.
Oh yes, I know, I know.
I even take it further, if I make a misstake and end up in bad spot, but everything turned out ok in the end, say if I blow a stop sign or something similar, it has happened, though it is rare.
Then I will do either of two things:
- If it is remotely practical, I will drive back and drive the exact scenario again, while paying extra attention to why I made the misstake and what I need to work on, I will do this multiple times to make sure I get it right.
- If going back ins not an option, I will make a mental note of checking out the location in Google Street View and look at the signs, marking and general situation while recalling the situation, to try and investigate what went wrong.
I do my best to try and learn from my own misstakes.
Wish everyone had this mentality, thank you for being you
Ya can’t park there, mate.
I’ll only be a minute! I’ve got my hazards on!
Key the ever loving hell out of it
Looking at the pictures in the article, I think the driver already had that covered.
Just continue on the path, straight over the top, most vehicles like that don’t handle human weight on plastic and paper thin aluminum very well, bonus points if the music you’re listening to requires a stomping bass beat about the same time you cross the front and back glass…
I’m supposed they haven’t added a little pole in the middle of the entrance. That would deter most people. Even idiotic ones who think this perfectly paved narrow path is a road.
local authoritys think they need something to stop all motorised traffic and put a kissing gate or something to deters motorbikes but it then deters Cyclists and wheelchair users. All they need is a bollard.
*bollard
That’s not a nice thing to call the guy.
Don’t put wee Piotr out of a job
dungeon hardened bollard
“It was about half a mile down the path,” he said, adding: “The last time it was about 300 or 400 metres.”
Gotta love a good mix of units. Without looking this up I have no idea which distance is greater.
For those confused, half a mile ≈ 820 metres.
For those confused, a meter is slightly less than a yard. Though because that system of measurement is ridiculously dumb to still use today. A mile isn’t 1000 yards. It’s 1760 yards.
Edit: Yes, I reversed that. A meter is slightly more than a yard.
a yard is 36 inches. a meter is 39.3 inches.
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More, actually. A yard is about 0.91 metre.
A mile is 1000 paces (one left, one right) of a nominal Roman soldier carrying what was full kit in those days. Mille = 1000. Its value has drifted over the centuries and was different in England and France, and not even particularly well standardized in England until relatively recently.
For sure. I had another comment basically explaining it has always been a term of colloquial meaning to explain distance. It’s mostly only Americans that use it for real distance measurements. And even then a lot Americans explain distance in terms of “time it takes to drive”.
I think “a mile” is a holdover from the use of that system of measurement previously. It’s a colloquial means of describing distance. It’s not meant to be a literal measurement. It just means a distance that is long enough to be of significance. A physical understanding of it, not a measuring tape. When I hear someone in the US say “about half a mile” when talking about a distance I don’t think they are being literal.
Also, you should probably know that 300 to 400 meters is less (obviously so) than 0.5 miles. A meter is just a few inches
shorterlonger than a yard. For short distances and “about” language like this you can just use them interchangeably.Someone using different units “miles” and “yards” in the US would not have all confused Americans. Even though those units are different and not easily comparable by a mathematical factor. 1760 yards in a mile. Really meaningful /s
This is just common colloquial means of speaking and “a mile” is just a holdover from historical use of the term. “A kilometer” just doesn’t roll of the tongue as nicely.
Edit: I said shorter instead of longer. Sorry internet.
A meter is just a few inches shorter than a yard
True candidate for “confidently wrong”.
It is, in fact, the other way around. A meter is 3’ 3"(ish) - close enough to 3" bigger that it makes no difference to John Doe. It does make a difference when being accurate for reasons of course.
If you want to comfirm it, without resorting to fundamental definitions (uk imperial), 1000m is 5 furlongs to within a couple of inches. There are 220 yards in a furlong so 1100 yards in 5 furlongs, therefore yards are shorter than meters.
Why use furlongs? Because a handy short conversion is 1km= 5/8 of a mile and a furlong is exactly 1/8 of a mile.
Yes. My comment was entirely about the unit difference and not at all about the colloquial use of units when estimating distance visually. /s
The person didn’t measure the distance dude. They used a range from 300-400 meters. This isn’t about being accurate. It’s about giving someone a sense of scale. 300-400 yards gives that same sense of scale. If it was accurate the estimate wouldn’t have a 100m range.
That was the entire point of my comment. That someone that doesn’t have the sense of scale of what a “meter” is can easily understand that scale by knowing “a yard is few inches less than a meter”
Like, you can’t “confidently incorrect” my comment when you missed the entire point of it.
A yard is a fundamental unit of measure that people, who don’t have a sense of scale for meters, can understand. And vice versa.
No one has a colloquial understanding of the distance of a furlong. Are you saying they do?
Dude, you literally said a meter is a few inches shorter than a yard. That is completely incorrect in any context, wether measuring accurately or illustrating orders of distance.
I mean you could have said “oops my bad i meant a meter is a bit longer than a yard” and i could have said “my dude, you are mistaken about the size of a meter” but its t’internet i guess.
Btw many people have jobs that depend on them knowing how long a furlong is… Ask any racing horse trainer or jockey.
You could have also said “I think you reversed that. It’s a few inches longer than a yard” instead of being a dickhead. Especially when the point of the comment is about absolute difference, where which is larger does not factor.
Yes, I meant to say “a meter is a few inches more than a yard”
See how I didn’t even realize that I reversed it because you were so bad at communicating it?
See how it being more or less didn’t actually matter to the point I was making in my original comment? Whether it was a few inches more or less doesn’t actually matter to the point of the comment. The point is that they are close enough to give an approximate equivalent when speaking about visually approximating a distance?
Are you the person that screams at the barista for giving you a Large Americano and a Small Latte when you asked for a Small Americano and a Large latte? Do you tell “oh my God you made my drink wrong!” Or do you calmly say “hi, I think you reversed the size of the drinks. My friend wanted a large latte.”
How many times has this happened?
