8,000 drivers caught on phone to be given help with simple concepts

I found this article in the Daily Mirage. Interesting reading:

"Following  a crackdown by UK Police on people using mobile phones while driving, almost 8,000 drivers have been revealed as being utterly, utterly stupid.

The drivers, a large proportion of which had gormless expressions and looked like the kind of people you wouldn't want to talk to anyway, persisted in using their phones while driving, oblivious to the fact that other people, like the police, for example, could totally, like, see them doing it. 

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Instrumentalism #03:- Renault 9/11 Electronic

I have been fascinated by this car for pretty much all my life. Or, well, since I was five, anyway. I was walking back home from some kind of mundane shopping exercise or somesuch, and a car being driven by one of her friends drew level and offered us a lift. It was a tedious car, bland beyond any kind of recall in the future, or it would have been had the dashboard not completely hypnotised me.

Please remember, I was 5. That's my excuse.

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Look In The Mirror, Baby.

I did the first stint on our drive to Cornwall last week, and in doing so I noticed that Nicola's Peugeot 306 three-door has an almighty drivers-side blindspot. This led me to consider the humble door-mirror, something that car-designers across the industry are itching to be rid of, But I can't see it happenning any time soon.

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