RichTT Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Apparently some MP has put forward plans to ban cars that are capable of over 100mph. Quote:- He wants to ban cars that are capable of doing more than 101mph... that's 162km/h. (It's based on 25% more than the average upper speed limit.) Only military, emergency and police cars would be exempt from the law, which would come into force in four years' time. Get a life you sad b*****d http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/europe_diary/default.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snail Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 So, first its a speed limiter at 100mph, then they'll provide some statistic that shows it improves safety on the roads, and it'll go down to 80, then 70, until we cant do more than 5mph Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizzbitt Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 All Jap Imports are limited to 112mph... you just get the car delimited unless they add it into the MOT although i cant see how they would check for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kite Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 There would be ways around it. I thought driving "quickly" helped the CO2 emissions,less time taken on a journey = less pollution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Limited to 100 mph ? They'll have to bung a turbo in my sh1tbox MX5 to get it to reach a ton ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRobin Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 How utterly stupid! The typical car which doesn't have the performance to comfortably reach 100 mph, also doesn't have adequate acceleration, brakes and road holding etc etc - All features which contribute significantly to safety when driven responsibly. On the other hand, will they lift to the 70 limit to become 100 ? - I'm normally an optimist but not on this one . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encee Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 What makes me laugh, with all this business, is that they are obviously trying to discourage the motorist from using his/her car, full stop. Why then, have they not sorted out a proper alternative ? Oh yeah, public transport..........err...don`t make me laugh. If they carry on pushing the motorist the way they are, the transport system, in its entirety, will collapse completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Apparently the 155mph/250kph limit is apparently implemented by agreement by the main European manufacturers. Most remaps remove the "soft" limiter, so I just fail to see how having a 100mph limit would be enforced. In fact, I would see it as being dangerous. How often have you been driving at 70 or 80mph (or whatever speed) and you've had to accelerate out of wherever you are to avoid an accident. Driving safely. See accident about to happen. Accelerate out of it. Sorry, no more left in this one. I don't think so. Muppet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntW Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 all it needs is for the nation as a whole to collectively abandon our cars for 1 day and use public transport... watch the system collapse and no one make it to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Top idea, Ant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encee Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 [ QUOTE ] all it needs is for the nation as a whole to collectively abandon our cars for 1 day and use public transport... watch the system collapse and no one make it to work [/ QUOTE ] Which is EXACTLY my point Ant ! These muppets are so busy ousting us out of anything that burns a millilitre of fuel, THAT THEY`VE FORGOTTEN TO THINK OF AN ALTERNATIVE ! What a bunch of tools.......! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 I don't begrudge paying 3 squillion a year in road tax, no really, I don't. What really gets my goat is the complete lack of public transport. Arsebags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Isn't that because public transport around you only takes people out of Leicestershireshire..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRobin Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 [ QUOTE ] In fact, I would see it as being dangerous. How often have you been driving at 70 or 80mph (or whatever speed) and you've had to accelerate out of wherever you are to avoid an accident. Driving safely. See accident about to happen. Accelerate out of it. Sorry, no more left in this one. I don't think so. Muppet [/ QUOTE ] ....Exactly my point too! These poeple who make such proposals/decisions simply don't have a clue. Such stupidity makes me feel quite angry. It's safer to have performance and not need it, than to need it but not have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 You can tell Chris Davies exactly what you think of him here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRobin Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Ta Bazza . I think a carefully worded, reasoned but polite letter is in order, with a touch of sarcasm somewhere perhaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfer Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Isn't that because public transport around you only takes people out of Leicestershireshire..? [/ QUOTE ] Thats because no one wants go in there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfer Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 [ QUOTE ] Ta Bazza . I think a carefully worded, reasoned but polite letter is in order, with a touch of sarcasm somewhere perhaps. [/ QUOTE ] Yes agreed something to the order of: Rear Tony/Gordon or whome ever it may concern, we being the people who spend large sums of whats F**king left of our Taxed to death money, would like to remind you that should you succeed in removing all our gass gulping cars, and replace them with Disabled battery run pedestrian friendly sh*tmobiles. Just who will pay all your taxs then, I'll tell you; It will be all those F**king "green B*stards" who thought they were saving the planet only to be told "THE SEA" produces millions of times more Co2 that the worlds cars all running flat out. You (being the government) have coned all these poor sheep into believing that our prefered mode of transport has bought the planet into a demise, shame on you and all who are gullable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GARTHY Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Ok, so if they limit the top speed the only option to sell/buy a car won't be its economy buut how quickly it gets to 100mph. Which is more dangerous a few very quick cars or every chav able to do 0-60 in 4 secs- duh Even I can work that out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teacake Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 [ QUOTE ] all those F**king "green B*stards" who thought they were saving the planet only to be told "THE SEA" produces millions of times more Co2 that the worlds cars all running flat out. [/ QUOTE ] Not quite sure where you got that from. The sea contains a huge amount of stored CO2, and a small jump in sea temperature will release far more CO2 than is produced by cars, but I take away a quite different message from that information than is apparent in your previous statement. To me, it implies that the relatively small CO2 output from cars could contribute to the triggering of a massive release of CO2 from the oceans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfer Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] all those F**king "green B*stards" who thought they were saving the planet only to be told "THE SEA" produces millions of times more Co2 that the worlds cars all running flat out. [/ QUOTE ] Not quite sure where you got that from. The sea contains a huge amount of stored CO2, and a small jump in sea temperature will release far more CO2 than is produced by cars, but I take away a quite different message from that information than is apparent in your previous statement. To me, it implies that the relatively small CO2 output from cars could contribute to the triggering of a massive release of CO2 from the oceans. [/ QUOTE ] NO the sea depending on it's temp, gives up Co2 , far more than any cars can produce, the total % cars are contributing @ present is: 0.05% per million particles, now that ain't much is it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 You need to look at the amount of CO2 that power stations pump out. There was a radio programme on over the weekend about coal fired power stations in the UK chucking out some ludicrous, and I mean stupid amounts of CO2 every hour. Something in the tens of thousands. But we can all do our bit to contribute to the carbon mountain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfer Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 What actually governs the amount of Co2 the sea gives up, is "Directly" atributed to the activity of the Sun, this has been shown to be acurate. Did you all know that between the 1200 and 1400 centurys the north pole was walked across as there was NO ice on it, the the temp of this planit was 3Deg Centigrade HOTTER than today. Global warming my This may be of interest: Earth's Climatic History Climatologists have used various techniques and evidence to reconstruct a history of the Earth's past climate. From this data they have found that during most of the Earth's history global temperatures were probably 8 to 15° Celsius warmer than today. In the last billion years of climatic history, warmer conditions were broken by glacial periods starting at 925, 800, 680, 450, 330, and 2 million years before present. The period from 2,000,000 - 14,000 B.P. (before present) is known as the Pleistocene or Ice Age. During this period, large glacial ice sheets covered much of North America, Europe, and Asia for extended periods of time. The extent of the glacier ice during the Pleistocene was not static. The Pleistocene had periods when the glacier retreated (interglacial) because of warmer temperatures and advanced because of colder temperatures (glacial). During the coldest periods of the Ice Age, average global temperatures were probably 4 - 5° Celsius colder than they are today. The most recent glacial retreat is still going on. We call the temporal period of this retreat the Holocene epoch. This warming of the Earth and subsequent glacial retreat began about 14,000 years ago (12,000 BC). The warming was shortly interrupted by a sudden cooling, known as the Younger-Dryas, at about 10,000 - 8500 BC. Scientists speculate that this cooling may have been caused by the release of fresh water trapped behind ice on North America into the North Atlantic Ocean. The release altered vertical currents in the ocean which exchange heat energy with the atmosphere. The warming resumed by 8500 BC. By 5000 to 3000 BC average global temperatures reached their maximum level during the Holocene and were 1 to 2° Celsius warmer than they are today. Climatologists call this period the Climatic Optimum. During the climatic optimum many of the Earth's great ancient civilizations began and flourished. In Africa, the Nile River had three times its present volume, indicating a much larger tropical region. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 [ QUOTE ] What actually governs the amount of Co2 the sea gives up, is "Directly" atributed to the activity of the Sun [/ QUOTE ] How the feck does a newspaper influence the sea...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 Not sure how much this would actually bother me I tend to drive my S2000 extremely "Vigourously" shall we say, but when I think about it high end speed is something I very rarely do. For me it's all about handling and acceleration.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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