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No it isn't, just as speed bumps on school approaches is a thoroughly bad thing. Necessary only at school opening times during school weeks is only 4.5% of all the hours in a year, so for 95.5 % of the time day and night we have to suffer tyre and suspension damage, wear and tear of vehicles...

But the regulation includes an Off switch too at present amd the driver sets the maximum speed anyway. The manufaturers won't do anything that hurts their sales, as Renaults voluntary 112 mph limit shows. .

All in a good cause. Cutting the coal consumption so drastically to meet their climate crisis targets is a thoroughly good thing for all of us. The determination of Xi Jinping is exactly what all countries should have. .

Why? They have a right to be stupid and suffer the consequences. And as I've just posted they are NOT all so opposed to China as you seem to think. The Monks in Tibet and the students in Hong Kong are very far from being representative of their populations. As for Taiwan, they will never...

Because they are being very silly. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet are parts of China and have been for countless centuries, apart from an expired 99 lease on Hong Kong. Resisting the democratically elected government in such a country is stupid, especially when the great majority are happier...

We know their intentions since they are very honest about them. They have clearly stated they want the world to become communist, but have chosen a different path to do it through strength. Basically through hearts and minds via employing economic strength. There's no doubt their revised form...

Absolutely, by sending our aircraft carrier there with us having to rely on a US destroyer in the escort fleet because we haven't enough ships is more likely to make the Chinese laugh than be fearful. The first general election could be possible if the Tories mess up much more. But it will...

I'm totally in support of China in this issue. They have an absolute right to have enough defence forces protecting their home area of the pacific, while the warmongering Americans have absolutely no right whatsoever to assume they are the ones to police it and the rest of the world. We've...

On our roads?! Or even many European country's roads out of the question Even in Australia where they've always had road trains, they only operate outside of towns and cities to fringe depots, never go into them. That photo was doctored anyway, the tractor unit pasted in was a joke, it'd...

Indeed, the permanence of hope is essential for our mental heath and continuing existence, The cost of our delicately balanced human sentient state. .

I doubt we would be able to cope with this, due to such software being unable to anticipate the vagaries of human attitudes. The corrections would be forever firefighting after widespread offence was caused. As we know from current hysterias, it only needs a few to take offence to whip up a...

I did as I promised yesterday, today taking the alternative 5 mile route with no fuel stations to my customary supermarket. I've never before seen it so empty of traffic, a double pleasure in my e-car. I hate to think what the other route was like with its three fuel stations and all the...

My first car at 18 years old was a Vauxhall DX Light 6. Born the same year as me, these had the infamous curtsey under braking which caused amusement for pedestrians at crossings: https://www.classicandsportscar.com/guides/classic-cars-a-to-z/vauxhall-light-six-dydx-1935-36 .

You know what they'd say to that. Nobody should be allowed to cycle until they'd driven a car for a year! Trouble is they outnumber cyclists to such a huge extent in this country, they'd probably get their own way. .

It's a lack of understanding why there are bicycles on the road anyway. To them everybody knows the roads are expressly for motor vehicles, with cars given the highest priority. .

You'd hate it, we all would. One of the main reasons why we don't achieve the world we want to end up with is that we only want it done "nicely", suiting our human foibles. Your computer driven AI, while getting to the objectives, would use coldly efficient methods that would appall us by...

They probably wouldn't hear it, snugly sealed inside their e-cars, most of their drivers just as oblivious to cyclists as they are now. .

Then e-car drivers can do it to you - - - - - silently! .

A temporary exemption will never happen for several reasons, chief among them is that trailers don't have any rear tow hitch provision or anywhere suitable to fix one for an additional trailer. And as you say, few places where they could be used our roads. The fairground people managed by...

In the UK only a single trailer is allowed in law. There was and still may be a special exemption for fairground and circus providers since they traditionally had towed double trailers behind their steam traction engines and had continued the practice with IC engined trucks. There's no trailer...