Random stuff - the anything else thread
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Canada’s best and worst cities for driving | Driving
No surprise really as to what city's are best and which are worst.
No surprise really as to what city's are best and which are worst.
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I’ve been in Italy where I hired a Citroen Mehari, a great vehicle, not encumbered with too many electric gimmicks. Now I’m in England where I have a rented minivan, a Nissan Qashqai. It fits the bill “something suitable for a little old lady with a wheelchair”. It is not going to set anyone giggling nor their heart pounding. It has lots of electric gadgets including one of those troublesome electric handbrakes. Today I came back to it in the car park and the electric doors wouldn’t open. I looked around, there were a great number of people clicking frenziedly at their cars. Those with proper door locks as well as electric ones opened them and set off the alarms. It was cacophonous.
I called Hertz where the technician was unflustered, oh yes, random appliances use the same frequencies and they interfere with the electrics, if it’s the whole car park it’s probably someone using a jammer for a laugh. At that point the car sprang back to life with everything flashing at once like a mobile phone that’s been dropped down the toilet. I’ve been a bit scared of the Qashqai since and I shan’t be getting in any self-driving vehicle.
I called Hertz where the technician was unflustered, oh yes, random appliances use the same frequencies and they interfere with the electrics, if it’s the whole car park it’s probably someone using a jammer for a laugh. At that point the car sprang back to life with everything flashing at once like a mobile phone that’s been dropped down the toilet. I’ve been a bit scared of the Qashqai since and I shan’t be getting in any self-driving vehicle.
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I rented a Qashqai in Nice @ Christmas time and it fit the bill for us. We had the 6 speed diesel version and I managed to get a speeding ticket in it (sent in the post a month or so later) in either France or Italy. I did find the fact that the power went off at traffic lights to be annoying and the electric hand brake was off putting at first.
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I rented a Qashqai in Nice @ Christmas time and it fit the bill for us. We had the 6 speed diesel version and I managed to get a speeding ticket in it (sent in the post a month or so later) in either France or Italy. I did find the fact that the power went off at traffic lights to be annoying and the electric hand brake was off putting at first.
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I rented a Qashqai in Nice @ Christmas time and it fit the bill for us. We had the 6 speed diesel version and I managed to get a speeding ticket in it (sent in the post a month or so later) in either France or Italy. I did find the fact that the power went off at traffic lights to be annoying and the electric hand brake was off putting at first.
The Qashqai has location sensing, which is useless in England, you're always too close to something so it bings incessantly. Still, good for hauling the ancient.
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Radio 1 at 50, but where is it? - BBC News
The youth of today.
This is unbelievable...people say they've never tuned a radio/found a station. I know younger people don't listen to the radio much these days as there are so many other options (and every time I've been back in the UK, Radio 1 is just auto tuned aural wallpaper) but what next...people who don't know how to dial a phone #?
The youth of today.
This is unbelievable...people say they've never tuned a radio/found a station. I know younger people don't listen to the radio much these days as there are so many other options (and every time I've been back in the UK, Radio 1 is just auto tuned aural wallpaper) but what next...people who don't know how to dial a phone #?