RE: PH blog: interactive experience
Discussion
'On the dual carriageway that concentration remains as stopping distances are kept bigger than many others thanks to no ABS with stop/start traffic and wet roads. The fast sweeping bend taken at speed in the Mini is different when in the TVR. I’m conscious of the glistening tarmac and change in road surface and can see a little standing water too.'
A few thoughts:
1. In the SP&TL section there was a thread about the accident that killed a HATO last week. TallbutBuxomly said mentioned that some roads seem to have dodgy draining and leave water, or streams crossing the road. Was it Mark Walton in CAR Magazine that mentioned going off of a main road in a 911 and when the emergency services arrived they said it was a spot known to suffer such accidents due to water on the road.
I can't be the only one that's been sat in traffic watching water run across a slip road, across a carriageway and then onto the white lines and continuing on its way once there is a gap in the white lines.
What happens when these runs of water across roads freeze? Climate change means we'll get harsher winters with more frozen water on our roads?
Are roads having more water sat on them, or having more miniature streams crossing them? If they are why?
2. I must admit Quattro did cross my mind. I'm not sure how many of us have the time or weather to choose when we get to drive so perhaps something with 4WD may be better if it's about making progress safely whatever the weather or on road water road designers and/or Engineers like to leave behind.
Perhaps 4WD would be overkill given the progress Garlick made in a MINI D?
A few thoughts:
1. In the SP&TL section there was a thread about the accident that killed a HATO last week. TallbutBuxomly said mentioned that some roads seem to have dodgy draining and leave water, or streams crossing the road. Was it Mark Walton in CAR Magazine that mentioned going off of a main road in a 911 and when the emergency services arrived they said it was a spot known to suffer such accidents due to water on the road.
I can't be the only one that's been sat in traffic watching water run across a slip road, across a carriageway and then onto the white lines and continuing on its way once there is a gap in the white lines.
What happens when these runs of water across roads freeze? Climate change means we'll get harsher winters with more frozen water on our roads?
Are roads having more water sat on them, or having more miniature streams crossing them? If they are why?
2. I must admit Quattro did cross my mind. I'm not sure how many of us have the time or weather to choose when we get to drive so perhaps something with 4WD may be better if it's about making progress safely whatever the weather or on road water road designers and/or Engineers like to leave behind.
Perhaps 4WD would be overkill given the progress Garlick made in a MINI D?
This reminds me about a few summers ago, when I was lucky enough to be able to borrow a Jaguar XFR for the weekend, a truely amazing car, but driving back home in my mk1 MX-5 on the Monday evening, I took the same long way home as I had in the Jaguar on the Friday and the drive in the MX-5 was actually more fun, because I was much more connected with the car and able to get some flow going, rather than just bursts of rapid acceleration.
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