The totally off-topic thread

[anat0l]

So the stat dec has been completed and will be posted tomorrow. Think the lesson learned re speeding is a work in progress though:
Daughter: "I'll still be driving around local areas of course"
Me: "No you won't as you'll be suspended and uninsured"
Her: "Don't try to take the moral high ground here, you have points on your own licence"

Heh, big difference - the moral high ground still has a licence, period.

Attitude befitting of a princess to be? *runs*

 

[JohnK]

this is not a case where political correctness has gone mad. it is a case of 'helping' recalcitrant people to accept that people have equal rights.

Total rubbish.

Let me decide who is suitable to work at my business. Not the political correctness mob.

I know I am being stubborn but your equal rights agenda has taken away my rights to employ who I see fit and you are telling me who I must employ.

Next thing you are going to tell me I must help everyone who seeks my help. And if someone proposes to me I must accept and cannot refuse based on your silly discrimination criteria including sex and religion.

 

[JohnK]

I have used GP for ages. Though it was common usage.

General Practitioner?

We use way too many acronyms....

 

[Meggsy]

ISTR it is 1000 hours in QLD. Hours with a registered driving instructor are trebled for the purposes of contributing towards logged hours (viz. if your driving log consisted of only instructor's time, you would only have to do 333 hours).

I'm not entirely sure if there's a requirement that the logged hours cover an adequate cross-section of driving conditions.

In any case, there are no real checks and the logs aren't enforced for truthfulness, so naturally several of the logs are cooked.

Happy to be pulled up about any of this.

The requirement in QLD is for 100 hours supervised driving of which a maximum of 30 hours can be logged at the 3 for 1 rate (10 hours with a licenced instructor). You must also have 10 hours of night time driving. The logs must be submitted for scrutiny 2 weeks before a planned test. A couple of my sons friends had their log book claims rejected due to irregularities.

 

[Hvr]

General Practitioner?

We use way too many acronyms....

And here's another example of acronym confusion that is actually on topic for this board.

 

[JessicaTam]

Only if the car was available before 1 July 2006.

The rules after 2006 are summarised by the RACQ here: Speedo Accuracy | Motoring | RACQ

essentially - a speedo cannot give a reading over the actual speed of the vehicle.

Um, a speedo cannot give a reading less than the actual speed of the vehicle.

From the website you quoted:

This new rule requires that the speedo must not indicate a speed less than the vehicle’s true speed or a speed greater than the vehicle’s true speed by an amount more than 10 percent plus 4 km/h. Significantly, this change means that speedos must always read 'safe', meaning that the vehicle's true speed must not be higher than the speed indicated by the speedo.

 

[erkpod]

Hooray for finding out about a new social media policy on the intranet but not being able to view said new social media policy on the intranet. *facepalm*

 

[anat0l]

The requirement in QLD is for 100 hours supervised driving of which a maximum of 30 hours can be logged at the 3 for 1 rate (10 hours with a licenced instructor). You must also have 10 hours of night time driving. The logs must be submitted for scrutiny 2 weeks before a planned test. A couple of my sons friends had their log book claims rejected due to irregularities.

Thanks for that.

Wow, I was waaaaaaaaay off the mark!

 

[Rox]

The requirement in QLD is for 100 hours supervised driving of which a maximum of 30 hours can be logged at the 3 for 1 rate (10 hours with a licenced instructor). You must also have 10 hours of night time driving. The logs must be submitted for scrutiny 2 weeks before a planned test. A couple of my sons friends had their log book claims rejected due to irregularities.

My father (About 1000 years ago) was only required to pay some money to get his first licence.
My mother, slightly more recently, drove 40 miles into town (Aramac) with me in a bassinet, and parked in the police station yard. The policeman asked who had driven her in. When she replied that she had come unaccompanied, he wrote out her licence on the spot.

My early driver training was done on the property airstrip.

 

[JohnM]

The ADRs require that a speedometer reads no worse than 10% over the actual speed. Unfortunately car manufacturers take that as meaning they should read 10% over. When I queried Subaru about my car reading 110 when I was actually doing 100 the response was 'It conforms to the ADRs, so not our problem'. And that was from corporate Subaru, not the dealer. I made it clear when I came to replace my car why I was not choosing a Subie.

And I think no more than zero under the actual.

I have a Subaru, too, Jess and the over-reading speedo also bugs me. But by checking it against a GPS, I know what adjustment to make.

And I do loooove that turbo, the very flat power/torque curve and the AWD - let me just say it comes into its own when overtaking looong WA roadtrains . So I'll put up with the discrepancy .

 

[JohnM]

So the stat dec has been completed and will be posted tomorrow. Think the lesson learned re speeding is a work in progress though:
Daughter: "I'll still be driving around local areas of course"
Me: "No you won't as you'll be suspended and uninsured"
Her: "Don't try to take the moral high ground here, you have points on your own licence"

Hmmm, too many family secrets starting to emerge here P F .

Weren't they so much easier when they were babies?:mrgreen:

 

[erkpod]

So the stat dec has been completed and will be posted tomorrow. Think the lesson learned re speeding is a work in progress though:
Daughter: "I'll still be driving around local areas of course"
Me: "No you won't as you'll be suspended and uninsured"
Her: "Don't try to take the moral high ground here, you have points on your own licence"

Does she have to go to court?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Um, a speedo cannot give a reading less than the actual speed of the vehicle.

From the website you quoted:

yes but... it goes on to say this (my bolding for emphasis):

Significantly, this change means that speedos must always read 'safe', meaning that the vehicle's true speed must not be higher than the speed indicated by the speedo.

So if the speedo indicates 100 - your vehicle's true speed cannot be higher than 100. When your actual true speed is 100k/hr, your speedo may tell you that you're doing 114km/hr. You would then slow down so that your speedo reads 100 - but in effect you would be doing 87km/hr.

(it's totally confusing though right????)

 

[markis10]

yes but... it goes on to say this (my bolding for emphasis):



So if the speedo indicates 100 - your vehicle's true speed cannot be higher than 100. When your actual true speed is 100k/hr, your speedo may tell you that you're doing 114km/hr. You would then slow down so that your speedo reads 100 - but in effect you would be doing 87km/hr.

(it's totally confusing though right????)

That of course is a vehicle at manufacturer spec, most don't last long at that spec.

 

[rogerkambah]

And I think no more than zero under the actual.

I have a Subaru, too, Jess and the over-reading speedo also bugs me. But by checking it against a GPS, I know what adjustment to make.

And I do loooove that turbo, the very flat power/torque curve and the AWD - let me just say it comes into its own when overtaking looong WA roadtrains . So I'll put up with the discrepancy .

+1 I can live with the speedo over-read, as the rest of the car is so good.

 

[cove]

Children and driving is a work in progress.
Where is the spare tyre dad? Sure Toyota put it the boot so keep looking son.
How does the RAC roadside assist work? Give them a call and they will change your flat tyre.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Does she have to go to court?

No, the fine and points is for exceeding speed by 10 kph and the 3month suspension is automatic upon payment of the fine as she is on P1 licence.

 

[QF WP]

For all the doctors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3G3Pa8u34&sns=em

 

[drron]

Thanks for that one.Who said medicos have no sense of rhythm?

 

[Buzzard]

So the stat dec has been completed and will be posted tomorrow. Think the lesson learned re speeding is a work in progress though:
Daughter: "I'll still be driving around local areas of course"
Me: "No you won't as you'll be suspended and uninsured"
Her: "Don't try to take the moral high ground here, you have points on your own licence"

Thank heavens that my daughter is 33 so those rebellious years are over ( I hope!)
My heart goes out to you PF.