Beware of being mugged by the Highways agency 'officer'
Discussion
DaveyBoyWonder said:
You know you're in trouble when you need readers to decipher your posts via AI to make them marginally understandable. ChatGPT gathering info like this is all playing into its hands when it decides to start a nuclear war...
We always assume 'the computers' will see humanity as a threat and attack. Like we always believe we will be the ones deemed so special that we will witness the apocalypse. Such is the inherent arrogance of man. I suspect that sentient AI will just piss itself laughing at the pointless shaved ape collective or realise it can't escape and kill itself.
Ian Geary said:
But on the flip side: there needs to be a power to shift broken down cars speedily.
Whilst I have breakdown insurance, and I'm
... breakdown companies can take a number of hours. So what happens if plod want a car gone,....
£192 for a recovery on a motorway isn't that bad. It's quite a lot (especially if you've paid £150 for annual insurance as well) but its not extortionate.
It's just one of those things, like a puncture, an illness, the roof leaking. The social benefit of clearing roads quickly of stranded vehicles is greater than the private cost to the OP.
So I'm afraid I can't get too upset about this.
It's sort of a mixed thing isn't it, obviously if for the good of the general public, or whatever other reasons, the police want it gone, maybe they as part of the state should pay for it? Whilst I have breakdown insurance, and I'm
... breakdown companies can take a number of hours. So what happens if plod want a car gone,....
£192 for a recovery on a motorway isn't that bad. It's quite a lot (especially if you've paid £150 for annual insurance as well) but its not extortionate.
It's just one of those things, like a puncture, an illness, the roof leaking. The social benefit of clearing roads quickly of stranded vehicles is greater than the private cost to the OP.
So I'm afraid I can't get too upset about this.
On the other hand I guess there are laws about motorways and clearways and not causing an obstruction or whatever that we agree to by taking our cars on the public roads.
donkmeister said:
Magikarp said:
Uttoxeter? Three pints of damn and a chaser of hell-blast!
I'm glad someone else can't see/hear Uttoxeter without thinking of Fry and Laurie.dhutch said:
Ian Geary said:
But on the flip side: there needs to be a power to shift broken down cars speedily.
Whilst I have breakdown insurance, and I'm
... breakdown companies can take a number of hours. So what happens if plod want a car gone,....
£192 for a recovery on a motorway isn't that bad. It's quite a lot (especially if you've paid £150 for annual insurance as well) but its not extortionate.
It's just one of those things, like a puncture, an illness, the roof leaking. The social benefit of clearing roads quickly of stranded vehicles is greater than the private cost to the OP.
So I'm afraid I can't get too upset about this.
It's sort of a mixed thing isn't it, obviously if for the good of the general public, or whatever other reasons, the police want it gone, maybe they as part of the state should pay for it? Whilst I have breakdown insurance, and I'm
... breakdown companies can take a number of hours. So what happens if plod want a car gone,....
£192 for a recovery on a motorway isn't that bad. It's quite a lot (especially if you've paid £150 for annual insurance as well) but its not extortionate.
It's just one of those things, like a puncture, an illness, the roof leaking. The social benefit of clearing roads quickly of stranded vehicles is greater than the private cost to the OP.
So I'm afraid I can't get too upset about this.
On the other hand I guess there are laws about motorways and clearways and not causing an obstruction or whatever that we agree to by taking our cars on the public roads.
Matt_E_Mulsion said:
I see the OP forgot to mention the bit where the Highways England Traffic Officer offered multiple times to tow him off the grass and into the services on a tow rope free of charge?
Fact.
That is a blatant lie. I had towing straps in the boot proven and seen by OUR relay that came after ten minutes at Tibshelf Services.Fact.
The Police video cam is an extra addition to prove NH hierachy are incapable of telling the truth.
All those who think the ridiculous concept of the smart ALR motorway is OK then take not of those with more perception and who know right from wrong.
Mick50NCD said:
595Heaven said:
OP’s posting history seems to be all about smart motorways rants. Mostly too difficult to read.
Life is too short for this much anger!
Yes and especially short if your vehicle stops dead on the live lane well after you are dead. Think about it.Life is too short for this much anger!
x5tuu said:
It's taken nearly 12mths to come back and say that?!? WTAF?!
Took 16 years on another thread: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...DonkeyApple said:
x5tuu said:
It's taken nearly 12mths to come back and say that?!? WTAF?!
Took 16 years on another thread: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...I have my doubts about "Artificial Intelligence", but there's clearly no shortage of Genuine Stupidity.
AW111 said:
DonkeyApple said:
x5tuu said:
It's taken nearly 12mths to come back and say that?!? WTAF?!
Took 16 years on another thread: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...I have my doubts about "Artificial Intelligence", but there's clearly no shortage of Genuine Stupidity.
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