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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Radio 4 Choice Podcast - an 11.6MB download
"Asthmatic Friend of the Earth and self-confessed car driving hypocrite, Dave Cohen, wants to give up his car addiction. But can he persuade the rest of the planet to give up, too?" |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Al C-F wrote on 21/06/2006 18:22 +0100:
Radio 4 Choice Podcast - an 11.6MB download "Asthmatic Friend of the Earth and self-confessed car driving hypocrite, Dave Cohen, wants to give up his car addiction. But can he persuade the rest of the planet to give up, too?" I Want it Now! just on BBC1 had a couple choosing between a Range Rover Sport and a Merc Diesel Estate. Despite all the explanation about the risk to other road users, the fuel consumption (3x), the environemental factors etc they still went for the Range Rover. We like it was their excuse. What hope!! -- Tony "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Tony Raven wrote:
Al C-F wrote on 21/06/2006 18:22 +0100: Radio 4 Choice Podcast - an 11.6MB download "Asthmatic Friend of the Earth and self-confessed car driving hypocrite, Dave Cohen, wants to give up his car addiction. But can he persuade the rest of the planet to give up, too?" I Want it Now! just on BBC1 had a couple choosing between a Range Rover Sport and a Merc Diesel Estate. Despite all the explanation about the risk to other road users, the fuel consumption (3x), the environemental factors etc they still went for the Range Rover. We like it was their excuse. What hope!! What a dire level of self-knowledge, too. If at least they could have said something along the lines of "it makes us confident", there'd be a smidgen of hope that they'd realise that the confidence is due to intimidating other road users and blocking pedestrians' sight lines, etc. A |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Ambrose Nankivell came up with the following;:
Tony Raven wrote: Al C-F wrote on 21/06/2006 18:22 +0100: Radio 4 Choice Podcast - an 11.6MB download "Asthmatic Friend of the Earth and self-confessed car driving hypocrite, Dave Cohen, wants to give up his car addiction. But can he persuade the rest of the planet to give up, too?" I Want it Now! just on BBC1 had a couple choosing between a Range Rover Sport and a Merc Diesel Estate. Despite all the explanation about the risk to other road users, the fuel consumption (3x), the environemental factors etc they still went for the Range Rover. We like it was their excuse. What hope!! What a dire level of self-knowledge, too. If at least they could have said something along the lines of "it makes us confident" Maybe they didn't say that because most people who have a vehicle like this don't actually think along the same lines you think they do. there'd be a smidgen of hope that they'd realise that the confidence is due to intimidating other road users and blocking pedestrians' sight lines, etc. They didn't say it possibly because it doesn't "make them confident", as you seem to think. I also don't think these vehicles actually do intimidate others, or block sight lines, any more than any other large vehicle, like vans, buses, trucks, MPV's etc which also use the road system. -- Paul ... (8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!! |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Tony Raven wrote:
Ambrose Nankivell wrote on 21/06/2006 19:47 +0100: Tony Raven wrote: Al C-F wrote on 21/06/2006 18:22 +0100: Radio 4 Choice Podcast - an 11.6MB download "Asthmatic Friend of the Earth and self-confessed car driving hypocrite, Dave Cohen, wants to give up his car addiction. But can he persuade the rest of the planet to give up, too?" I Want it Now! just on BBC1 had a couple choosing between a Range Rover Sport and a Merc Diesel Estate. Despite all the explanation about the risk to other road users, the fuel consumption (3x), the environemental factors etc they still went for the Range Rover. We like it was their excuse. What hope!! of hope that they'd realise that the confidence is due to intimidating other road users and blocking pedestrians' sight lines, etc. They had an excellent person who disarmed that excuse beautifully by telling them that they may pride themselves on being safer inside but they were more likely to hit and kill someone in an SUV and he guaranteed that if they did they would never forget it however safe they were inside. Thing is, that my understanding (which is quite franky pretty ill informed) is that SUVs are quite a lot more dangerous for their occupants than ordinary cars. This is due to their proponsity to roll over. I will have a look to see if I can find anything authoritative on the googly. The sad part is that they truely do make the occupants feel safer and it seems that they equally truely actually make them less safe. Alternatively maybe it is not actually that they feel safer per se but that there is some other percieved benifit which is expressed/justified as a feeling of safety. I would guess that the roll over protection provided by this class of vehicle will sadly be increased as time passes. |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Paul - xxx wrote: Ambrose Nankivell came up with the following;: Tony Raven wrote: Al C-F wrote on 21/06/2006 18:22 +0100: Radio 4 Choice Podcast - an 11.6MB download "Asthmatic Friend of the Earth and self-confessed car driving hypocrite, Dave Cohen, wants to give up his car addiction. But can he persuade the rest of the planet to give up, too?" I Want it Now! just on BBC1 had a couple choosing between a Range Rover Sport and a Merc Diesel Estate. Despite all the explanation about the risk to other road users, the fuel consumption (3x), the environemental factors etc they still went for the Range Rover. We like it was their excuse. What hope!! What a dire level of self-knowledge, too. If at least they could have said something along the lines of "it makes us confident" Maybe they didn't say that because most people who have a vehicle like this don't actually think along the same lines you think they do. there'd be a smidgen of hope that they'd realise that the confidence is due to intimidating other road users and blocking pedestrians' sight lines, etc. They didn't say it possibly because it doesn't "make them confident", as you seem to think. I also don't think these vehicles actually do intimidate others, or block sight lines, any more than any other large vehicle, like vans, buses, trucks, MPV's etc which also use the road system. Speaking personally they do intimidate me, and they do block sight lines more than the more usual cars. They have much less excuse for their size, than other more useful large vehicles. A bus needs to be large, in order to carry a lot of people (hopefully!). Vans and trucks need to be large to carry large amounts of goods, which allegedly we all need. What excuse has the SUV for being large? Mostly it is going to be empty, except for one greedy, tasteless, anaesthetised lump of decadence in the driver's seat. SUVs are just the motorised version of a gated development. "Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done" |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Squashme wrote:
What excuse has the SUV for being large? Mostly it is going to be empty, except for one greedy, tasteless, anaesthetised lump of decadence in the driver's seat. SUVs are just the motorised version of a gated development. "Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done" The other day, there was a demonstration on the M25 that showed one of two things: 1. A BMW X5 has better brakes than a Jeep or 2. The Jeep driver's view of the brake lights of the car in front is obscured when tailgating. Either way, it was, as Stella would have it, "reassuringly expensive". |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Tony Raven wrote:
Al C-F wrote on 21/06/2006 18:22 +0100: Radio 4 Choice Podcast - an 11.6MB download "Asthmatic Friend of the Earth and self-confessed car driving hypocrite, Dave Cohen, wants to give up his car addiction. But can he persuade the rest of the planet to give up, too?" I Want it Now! just on BBC1 had a couple choosing between a Range Rover Sport and a Merc Diesel Estate. Despite all the explanation about the risk to other road users, the fuel consumption (3x), the environemental factors etc they still went for the Range Rover. We like it was their excuse. What hope!! Added to which when the woman came to park the thing in a space large enough for an APC she had to drive on because she couldnt see well enough to get the car in after three attempts. FWIW more people are killed in 4x4's on the road when they hit mountain armcos as the 4x4 is the wrong height and tends to go over it I assume the same when hitting armcos along motorways etc. The things should be banned on public roads unless there's a good reason for having one. IE better than the other jewel of the program 'taking the kids to school'. Sniper8052 |
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I Want to Give up Driving: 2 Jun 06
Sniper8052(L96A1) wrote on 22/06/2006 07:52 +0100:
Added to which when the woman came to park the thing in a space large enough for an APC she had to drive on because she couldnt see well enough to get the car in after three attempts. And that was with those reversing distance sensors fitted!!! -- Tony "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci |
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