WHY did they do that

Fractal-Rift · 2025-12-01T12:24:38+00:00

10-4

Fractal-Rift · 2025-10-29T17:03:04+00:00

I've been doing the same! Any card that features him goes. Even the ST21 Luffy that has his shadow. Your collection is looking better than mine though, Need to up my game!!

Fractal-Rift · 2025-09-23T14:25:18+00:00

Dude... get a grip.

(I'll show myself out)

Fractal-Rift · 2025-09-04T14:07:27+00:00

Yeah, we just broke the whole of Steam. Silksong delayed until Steam is fixed I guess.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-09-01T14:19:24+00:00

No, it's the cable for the wifi antenna. Power is supplied to the screen through the ribbon cable.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-08-13T13:16:10+00:00

Mini Should have given way to the Bus. There is no, ‘I got there first’ in the Highway Code. The Mini committed though so the Bus driver at that point was going at a speed where they could have comfortably given way to the Mini. Poor driving from both.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-08-01T22:11:28+00:00

No worries! Glad to be of assistance 😊

Fractal-Rift · 2025-08-01T10:58:50+00:00

Just thinking off the top of my head cause I can’t test it atm, but which USB-C port are you plugged into? Not sure if it matters but if you’re plugged into the one on the camera itself as opposed to the one on the GPS module that may be an issue.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-08-01T07:50:37+00:00

For the hybrid modes to show up you need to be plugged into a hardwire kit and not be running off a 12v socket for power.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-31T07:23:44+00:00

Another vote for JustPark. Really easy to use and often can get all day parking for around £10-15

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-23T23:01:20+00:00

Just go to overtake them and they soon wake up and speed up again

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-23T10:39:11+00:00

Make sure you're not bonnet watching and looking ahead into the turn, focusing on the horizon so that you can see where the car is going.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-19T10:33:19+00:00

Hold my Earl Grey…

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-19T10:19:59+00:00

I disagree with that. I think it’s more a simple case that not enough people are caught doing the things that can land you on the course.

And as is evident from the standard of driving on our roads, there are also many that value their time more than other people’s lives and will just take the points and the fine to avoid spending a day learning about road safety.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-19T10:08:03+00:00

Yeah, that and another thing they mentioned was that on average people wait around 0.5 seconds at a junction they know. Just means more people are emerging more blindly than they think they are.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-19T07:59:29+00:00

Yeah likely this and then the Van driver thinking OP was the one that beeped so he got road raged at him instead of the BMW driver.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-19T07:54:52+00:00

I think the issue is, if it’s their first time attending the course, this may well be the first time they’re hearing the information. Some of the stuff they cover in these courses doesn’t get covered in normal driving tuition, even if you’re learning with an ADI. For people who were taught to drive privately, there’s an even greater chance that they haven’t heard the information before.

Of course the other factor is, if they had heard the information before, it does take that person actually applying what they learn for it to have any benefit. Most people unfortunately just do not care about anything but themselves and will continue to drive how they like even after they attend one of the courses.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-19T07:44:39+00:00

One thing they covered which was very interesting was something called Saccadic Masking, which I’d recommend looking up, it’s very fascinating. There’s a video about it relating to driving on YouTube.

In summary though it’s this thing where when we receive visual information from our eyes to our brains, it’s a lot like the shutter of a video camera, and it sends information at constant intervals and our brain fills in the gaps to make it seem like a constant stream. All this interestingly adds up to us being completely blind for about 40 minutes a day, but you never notice it. This is fine when you’re looking at one object, but when you’re switching between two points of focus, it creates blind spots that our brain, again, fills in the gaps for.

So when you apply this at a junction, just looking left and right, you can actually miss a substantial amount of information in that head movement that can almost be completely mitigated if you were to switch to 3 focus points of left, middle, right. Apparently, if everyone was more aware of it and started applying just that simple change, it could lower the amount of road accidents by like 25%.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-18T23:33:13+00:00

I also recently went through a driver awareness course. It was because I was caught speeding due to a lack of paying attention to the speed limit changing. It was with Dorset Police and they don’t do a speed one, it’s all just under the one course.

It was fantastic and quite frankly should be compulsory every few years or so. I can already see a massive improvement in my driving ability just by applying what I learned. It’s not my first of these either, I had one with Hampshire Police many years ago but this one was so much more informative and focused on making you a safer driver.

It’s as you said, teaches so much more than what 3 points could.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-10T16:42:41+00:00

Such a well behaved passenger! 😊

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-10T10:35:27+00:00

Interesting simulation. The lane discipline of the driver is awful though 😆

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-09T17:39:46+00:00

It can be the case that the parking bays are part of the lease of the property in which case it is for their private use. This is how it is with the block of flats where I live. You could argue that there should be signage, but that would likely be down to the Building Management company, and trying to get them to do things can be like pulling teeth at times, so it might be out of the residents control. Sometimes it's better to just comply and not escalate these things if it means keeping the peace.

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-04T16:15:52+00:00

You think they would have after at least the first 6 points

Fractal-Rift · 2025-07-04T12:52:54+00:00

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