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Will I get a speeding ticket? Essex/Cambridge Police

Yes they do. Note that the patrol car speed and the targets speed are separate. https://stalkerradar.com/police-radar/patrol see more

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Will I get a speeding ticket? Essex/Cambridge Police

If the sign say's 70 and you are going faster than 70 you are speeding. If you get a ticket all you have is mitigating circumstances to argue. As... see more

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Famous cars from film and TV

Aside from the Italian Job Minis it was James Bond cars for me, but I wasn't old enough to know or care about the makes or models. 😊 I think my... see more

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Will I get a speeding ticket? Essex/Cambridge Police

Just a random bit to add ... sadly if it ever happens in future your argument wouldn't work As a new driver I happened to have a police officer as... see more

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Will I get a speeding ticket? Essex/Cambridge Police

I don't know whether those speed guns they use work while the user is moving?? The "86" was probably the speed on his speedo when he was trying to... see more

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Taking your driving test soon? Check out these 15 tips to help you pass first time

I see @Nick , I think that's fair The thing I'd be concerned about is people doing the opposite now - i.e. feeling the need to take their test the... see more

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Famous cars from film and TV

That A-Team van lives on even today! We have a waste disposal company in my town and their vans are decked out in the A-Team style! I wonder why... see more

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Anti-EV call-out?

I think you will find that the PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) is fed into the motor controller to convert into AC with a frequency proportional to the... see more

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Famous cars from film and TV

I remember Morris Marinas and Hillman Avengers popping up all over the place, painted red with the white paint a la Starsky and Hutch. There was a... see more

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Will I get a speeding ticket? Essex/Cambridge Police

Hi - basically I was driving to my work (around the Essex/Cambridgeshire border) on a 70mph road. Traffic is really bad getting out of my city at... see more

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Famous cars from film and TV

Was thinking about some of these cars this morning for some reason - my childhood TV crushes in one article here. Some of my favourites were: ... see more

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Taking your driving test soon? Check out these 15 tips to help you pass first time

I don't think the point is to memorise the routes - more to get a feel for the type of roads you might encounter - like the article says, making sure... see more

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Anti-EV call-out?

EV's use BLDC motors which run on DC and are controlled by a PWM signal. They are, I believe the most efficient electric motors available. No AC... see more

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Taking your driving test soon? Check out these 15 tips to help you pass first time

I agree that learning the exact routes is a fools' errand - if there even were set routes, anyone with the ability to memorise them all would make a... see more

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Gardens

I love a good garden centre!! Especially if there's a good cafe to grab some cake and coffee as well! To be fair, most things that I like there are... see more

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Using Low Power STM32 MCU for Car Monitoring – Advice Needed

I've never used ST microcontrollers but I did something similar with a PIC16. From memory. Set the config file to have the watchdog timer set... see more

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Gardens

@Drivingforfun We have garden centers in some cities. When we lived in Vegas they had a massive one there. https://www.starnursery.com/locations... see more

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Taking your driving test soon? Check out these 15 tips to help you pass first time

They may have stopped publishing them but you can still get a sense of what they were, for example, on this site, where there are listed examples of... see more

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Taking your driving test soon? Check out these 15 tips to help you pass first time

@Nick Get to know your test route - test centres can have as many as 16 routes, and they stopped publishing them many years ago. But by all means... see more

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Impressive/unlikely drivers

If I remember right, the turning circle of my old Triumph Heralds was 27ft, which meant they would u-turn on most roads. The turning circles of the... see more

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Taking your driving test soon? Check out these 15 tips to help you pass first time

Over 2 million driving tests take place in England, Scotland, and Wales each year, yet over half of the people taking the test will fail. This new... see more

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Gardens

@NMNeil are garden centres a thing in the USA? I get the impression they're quite a "British" thing... I have a sketch in my head of the Brit... see more

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