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>>> Failure to stop and render aid is a punishable crime in most states
>>> (assuming you're in the U.S.)
>
>> I'm 98% certain that it's also a criminal offence in the UK too.
>
> I'm certain it would be shorter to list the countries where it's *not*
> a criminal offence than the ones where it is.
I'll go along with that...
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"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] anti-spam comcastnet> wrote:
> > In the UK.
> > Lift right foot from the break and put it on the accelerator.
> > Lift left foot from the clutch while accelerating gently with right foot.
>
> That's with right side driver cars?
> I thought that the pedals would have been reversed from
> left side driver cars.
You might think so but it is not the case. IIRC the hand controls on the
steering column are the same too (as far as there is a standard between
models). On motorbikes though the gear change and back brake foot pedal
(were/are?) on the other side from Japanese bikes.
Stephen
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> You might think so but it is not the case. IIRC the hand controls on the
> steering column are the same too (as far as there is a standard between
> models).
Yeh, cars have all the controls in the same place on both left/right drive,
apart from the gear lever and handbrake, which obviously you have to use
with your opposite hand. I drove right drive for about 6 years, and since
then left drive for 4 years, to be honest the only difference is that as a
right-handed person I prefer to keep my right hand on the steering wheel
while being lazy and leaving my left hand on the gear stick.
The funniest part of often switching sides is when you get in the passenger
side by mistake, or hit your hand into the door while trying to reach for
the gear stick :-) Not so funny when you pull into the path of an oncoming
truck by mistake...
> On motorbikes though the gear change and back brake foot pedal
> (were/are?) on the other side from Japanese bikes.
Yeh, certainly on pedal bikes too the front/rear brakes are on opposite
sides, again can be pretty dangerous if your instinct is to yank the wrong
one...
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scott wrote:
> The funniest part of often switching sides is when you get in the
> passenger side by mistake, or hit your hand into the door while trying
> to reach for the gear stick :-) Not so funny when you pull into the
> path of an oncoming truck by mistake...
Every time Benny drives us round Switzerland, each time we arrive at a
roundabout I'm like "WTF are you doing OMG WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!! Oh,
wait... nevermind, carry on..."
I am *so* glad I don't have to do the driving. o_O
Also... every time I play HalfLife 2, I get into all the cars from the
wrong side. (But then, so does Alyx...)
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scott wrote:
> The funniest part of often switching sides is when you get in the
> passenger side by mistake, or hit your hand into the door while trying
> to reach for the gear stick :-) Not so funny when you pull into the
> path of an oncoming truck by mistake...
I don't think I'd fare well in right hand drive manual transmission car.
--
~Mike
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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> scott wrote:
>
> > The funniest part of often switching sides is when you get in the
> > passenger side by mistake, or hit your hand into the door while trying
> > to reach for the gear stick :-) Not so funny when you pull into the
> > path of an oncoming truck by mistake...
>
> I don't think I'd fare well in right hand drive manual transmission car.
>
Once when I was trying to teach my wife to drive (failed) I was sitting in the
snapped the gear stick off at the base then had to drive home in second. Last
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> Once when I was trying to teach my wife to drive (failed) I was sitting in the
> snapped the gear stick off at the base then had to drive home in second. Last
Ouch... I didn't think that was possible, unless the gear selector was
either rusted through or made of cheap plastic....
--
~Mike
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Stephen wrote:
> Once when I was trying to teach my wife to drive (failed) I was sitting in the
> snapped the gear stick off at the base then had to drive home in second. Last
My mum snapped the brake lever off one time... She we at the front of a
line of traffic, and when the lights turned green, the ripped the brake
lever off. The bus in front started honking at her, until she got out of
the *cough* Ford Anglia still holding the brake lever in her hand.
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Invisible wrote:
> My mum snapped the brake lever off one time... She we at the front of a
> line of traffic, and when the lights turned green, the ripped the brake
> lever off. The bus in front started honking at her, until she got out of
> the *cough* Ford Anglia still holding the brake lever in her hand.
Wow, you should compile a list of whacky things you mom has done
accidentally, :) This, and nailing your hand to a board should be at the
top of the list.
--
~Mike
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>> My mum snapped the brake lever off one time... She we at the front of
>> a line of traffic, and when the lights turned green, the ripped the
>> brake lever off. The bus in front started honking at her, until she
>> got out of the *cough* Ford Anglia still holding the brake lever in
>> her hand.
>
> Wow, you should compile a list of whacky things you mom has done
> accidentally, :) This, and nailing your hand to a board should be at the
> top of the list.
She didn't nail it, she screwed it. <Insert joke here.>
At the bottom of such a list we would have things such as
- Coming out of Tesco with two trolleys because the stuff wouldn't fit
into one... even though only two people live in our house??
maximum number of plants possible... Even though our garden is small,
plants have the capacity to COPY THEMSELVES FOR FREE, and, best of all,
she then didn't bother to plant any of them so the ENTIRE lot died. Good
- Whining that my sister never calls her, and then spending 35 minutes
telling her off for not calling her when she eventually does call.
(Wanna take a guess why she never calls? I mean, aside from the fact
that IN REALITY she calls far more than any sane person would think is
necessary...)
Somewhere near the top I guess, we'd have
- Ripping the hand brake off of a car. (It WAS a Ford Anglia though, so
I guess that explains it.)
- Screwing her children to a piece of wood. (And then putting the drill
into hammar action rather than reverse while attempting to free them.
[And then freeing only one of them, while leaving the other one to free
himself.])
- Accidentally amputating her fingernail with a vegatable slicer due to
not bothering to use the supplied safety guard. (ARE YOU MENTAL??)
- Accidentally drilling through her arm with a power drill and spending
6 months incapacitated as a result.
- Spending 7 hours looking for her car keys when they were, in fact, in
the door of the car.
You know, this list could be *really* long...
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