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Apr 1st 2015 | 6:11 am

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SultanOfSwing

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Re: Drink Driving

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad

Yeah, she started as a 1 car operation, now has 4 cars, but only works Thursday - Saturday as a cab service. The rest of the week it is more like pre-booked private hire runs to the airport and the like, and a surprising (her words) number of kid drop offs at evening activities. Reckons the evening pub-run business is almost exclusively expats.

Please tell me it's run out of a tiny little office in the city somewhere that smells like fags and has dirty tea cups lying around everywhere ...

Apr 1st 2015 | 6:16 am

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Nutek

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Re: Drink Driving

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

Please tell me it's run out of a tiny little office in the city somewhere that smells like fags and has dirty tea cups lying around everywhere ...

Apr 1st 2015 | 6:19 am

#78

SultanOfSwing

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Re: Drink Driving

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Apr 1st 2015 | 6:30 am

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Re: Drink Driving

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

I was expecting a more 'matron' look, with curlers in the hair.

Apr 1st 2015 | 6:32 am

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Re: Drink Driving

why have I suddenly started getting redirect notices on all these pictures of presumbaly crabby old bags in cab offices....?

Apr 1st 2015 | 6:33 am

#81

Nutek

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Re: Drink Driving

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Originally Posted by AlphaTangoMike

I was expecting a more 'matron' look, with curlers in the hair.

Glamcabs.

Apr 1st 2015 | 10:22 am

#82

Pete H

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Re: Drink Driving

This Easter Sunday my in-laws will be drinking and think nothing about driving home afterwards.

Apr 1st 2015 | 11:09 am

#83

lansbury

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Re: Drink Driving

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

............ whereas a good ol' boy drives down the road in his pickup truck drinking beer and throwing the empties in the bed of his truck.

I always wondered what the sliding rear windows in pickups were for.

Apr 1st 2015 | 1:18 pm

#84

Dorothy

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Re: Drink Driving

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad

I can't remember where I saw it, but it was just in the last couple of days. There had been a study (AAA maybe?) on teenage drivers and distractions while driving (not just cellphones). They all had videocams in the cars, watching the drivers. There were various sequences showing how the kids were "switching off" while they were talking, but and there was one stunning sequence where a 17 year old had a phone to his ear. Pulled up to an intersection. Stopped. Looked Left. Looked Right. Looked Left. Looked Right. Appeared to be doing everything right, but he still had the phone at his ear as he pulled out and got t-boned by an 18-wheeler he hadn't seen.

ETA - it was AAA - and the incident I was referring to was very similar to the one at 1:00 in this video clip
https://vimeo.com/aaapublicaffairs/r...614/989d09b15b

Interesting lack of emotion on a lot (not all) of their faces when they realized what was going on.

The RAC here in Western Australia had an experimental car that was run off the driver's attention. When the driver stopped paying attention to what they were doing the car's power was reduced so the car was slowed. RAC introduces world's first Attention Powered Car | Media releases | RAC WA