Other Motoring Issues

Titled - GWIZZZ, £5,000 FOR METAL MICKEY! --------------------------------------------------------- No, it isn't an online auction to sell off the scary metal freak from last century; it is the latest entrapment of green policies Westminster has thrown onto the environment heap, the Electric car, which has been around for fours years already. Firstly, the green issue ----------------------------- There is one matter that we cannot control apart from Sir Fred Goodwin's pension or MP's expenses, and that is climate change. It is shocking that over the last 25 years we have now a generation that has been aware of global warming and CO2 ...  Read the complete review

Whilst browsing through dooyoo I can across the title 'Other Motoring Issues' and I had to get a few issues off my chest. I have been driving for 21 years. I have never had a fine and believe I am a reasonable driver. I believe I am a better driver than I was when I first started driving. There are a few things I need to say though (i) Why do most drivers now feel as if they don't want to give way anymore. There are exceptions but these are the minority. Whenever I drive my daughter to school I have to edge my car out into oncoming traffic just to get across the road. The only way anybody gives way is when I'm half way across the road. ...  Read the complete review

These are the things that get me really annoyed, upset and generally disheartened about drivers and motoring in general. I tend to walk anywhere less than three miles these days unless in a hurry, and use a bike when the weather is fine. Number one offence in my book. Red light jumpers. Not only do people jump red lights, dangerous in itself, there seems to be a growing trend to jump them AND speed up to get through them. There is a set of lights near where I live that has had three major crashes in the last two months. A 10 year old lad got knocked down whilst the crossing 'green man' was on, the driver carried on ...  Read the complete review

As expected the government has found yet another ruse to make more money out of us. Those with the European Union plastic driver's licenses may not be aware that when they run out you now have to pay a sizable sum to renew them. I'm still on the old pink slip myself and it runs out in 2038, but the new higher tech ones have a loophole where the Treasury can get yet more out of you with this unexplained additional fee. Few people are likely not to renew their driver's license because of that fee. It's also the same with passports now. Another bit of Euro driver's license madness is this new approved motor cycle test that's now Europe wide from September 29th. ...  Read the complete review

I drove to Leeds last week over the M62. It's usually a really enjoyable drive with fantastic scenery. Unfortunately the weather was bad and to add to my joy, somebody had declared that it was 'National Dickhead Day' on the roads, without telling me about it first. Now then; Can one of my esteemed fellow reviewers please tell me why........ A. White vans are exempt from the 'Don't drive down the hard shoulder at 70mph because the emergency services need access' rule? B. Huge lorries driven by unshaven Michelin men don't have to have mud/spray guards on their wheels that actually do anything? C. Some people ...  Read the complete review