Hi all,
Due to a lack of activity on this site, I am planning to close it and take it offline in the next 3 weeks or so (by mid-July).
It all seemed like a good idea at the time - and it was! - certainly, it got the word out there about bad and ignorant driving, parking etc. as many newspapers, radio stations and even television stations had articles, interviews and panel discussions featuring myself and the site which helped get the message out there that certain people’s competence and attitudes behind the wheel just aren’t good enough any more.
With nearly a quarter of a million page views since the site launched last August, we’ve had some brilliant articles, some very entertaining videos and images and some very interesting polls on the site and it’s done its part in highlighting a problem we have here in Ireland - one that may be tackled somewhat by the stricter provisional license laws that are being implemented from next week on. Only time will tell on that one.
However there has been a drop in the number and quality of articles on the site of late and the number of visitors to the site has dropped dramatically in the past few months and unfortunately I no longer personally have the time to give to promote the site - so therefore I’ve decided to call it a day.
If someone is interested in taking over the site and domain name and breathing new life into it (hosting it yourself, of course), please contact me within the next 2 weeks.
Thanks to all of you who have contributed since the site opened last year. We’ve made our point!
Just a general query - and of course this poll is completely anonymous. How many (if any) penalty points have you on your license?
I recently had the good fortune of having my last penalty points removed from my license. At the most, I’d accumulated 6 - all for speeding, but now I’m back to zero.
How about you?…
Am I the only one now who is now totally pissed off with the amount of SUV women drivers who continue to use their mobile phones when driving. It’s as if the law doesn’t apply to them, only to the rest of us. I have now started blowing my horn at any I see on the phone, and wagging my finger saying No!!. These are the very people who have more to loose, as they usually have infants on board. It seems they don’t know how to pull in to use the phone, or maybe bluetooth technology has them baffled, as you never see them wearing bluetooth earpieces, it might interfere with the hairstyle or maybe clash with the colour of the shades parked on their heads. Maybe it’s time for the law to be changed, with 4 penalty points, or even 6, if you are caught using a mobile when driving.
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I would like one important change to the whole driving test: If you sat your test 27 times and failed miserably every time you should be told “it’s not for you, if you go out there in a car alone, you will do untold damage and possibly kill yourself and most likely others”.
If you want to become a pilot you have to do a test that determines how you can process a bombardment of information coming at you from all sides. How can your brain select from the view out the cockpit window, your instrument readouts, what you hear on the radio, what the co-pilot is telling you and sensory feedback from the plane itself, i.e. the controls, which bits of information to focus your concentration on.
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BBC Radio Northampton had a special feature on their lunch-time show (after 1pm) today titled “Is Driving A Nightmare”. It opened with an interview with Niall O’Keeffe of ShiteDrivers.com, which can be heard on the Radio section of the Media page now, or you can hear it here:
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(Note: The presenter goes on for 4 minutes, introducing the topic before the interview itself starts)