We mention Disney's Motor Mania in Life After Cars. When it was released 76 years ago it understood something fundamental about driving: No one becomes a *better* person behind the wheel of a car.
I had to use an app for the first few months of Windows 11 to add the seconds in, seconds are important if you need to use Azure boot diagnostics, the screenshot only updates once a minute at a specified number of seconds past the minute. Yes I'm impatient.
A screenshot of the Windows 11 Control Panel, with an arrow highlighting the new setting which enables showing seconds in the system track clock.
Microsoft: "We are adding Copilot AI to all our products, and if that means building datacenters that will consume more power than a small city, that's the price we all have to pay."
Also Microsoft: "Whoa there skippy! Showing SECONDS in your system tray clock uses more power! You sure about this?"
"Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" part 2.
Nick Robinson on the Today programme this morning was quick to repeat a misleading line about why we should support new North Sea oil & gas extraction in the UK on the grounds that it's MUCH (4x) cleaner than importing LNG. It's incorrect on several grounds: 🧵
"Bit stabby in the Senate today" - Brutus
That lane is far more suited to droving than driving.
That road is far more suited to droving than driving.
Nice to see the lanes ewe-sed for what they were built for.
I don't see the difference, this is a backup to the driver following the signage. Not a system to display or control the speed of the car. You seem to have the wrong end of this.
2026 Transport for London Speed Limit map just out. Shows huge coverage of 20mph limits (in green).
It would work well in London, we have large areas with the same speed limit.
It can never be perfect, so the obvious solution is to allow for a wider area, if you are deep in a low speed limit area and it kicks in it would encourage better driving elsewhere. As the tech improves that area can be reduced.
It depends on the country, France is great outside of the cities and I hear drivers are very well behaved in Finland. The UK is a real mixed bag.
visited Europe recently with all the speed camera and civic values it was hard to find a speeder or even anyone passing another car
Digital zoom makes it possible. Welcome to the 21st century.
A built in function apparently, but a bus driver would have to answer why they used it. A great idea for insurance companies.
Bus drivers have their actions recorded, that's a great idea.
To protect drivers from responsibility, sorry it doesn't work. Cycle helmets are only tested to withstand falls from bikes and not collisions with multi-ton popping to the shop machines.
I wasn't expecting psychics. All welcome.
No time travel for you.
Psst, it's not real.
Slowing people down to the limit.
Yeah trouble like an out of control speeding car for example. Oh.
Found one.
Yes. The bus lane is the fastest lane. As it should be.
It's not a limiter if you can easily override it or it has the option of being switched off.
Sticker on the back of an electric London bus. 'The speed of this bus is restricted to the local limit'.
Now do cars.
I wrote a post this week about the Silvertown tunnel cycle bus.
Unlikely to succeed but still, no effort at all to improve connections to it south of the river in Greenwich.
Different in Newham where a wide network is being created via S106, CIL and TfL funds. This is metres away
I agree it's much better in Silvertown and some parts of Becton, but I'm from the north of the borough. With the three year closure of the Greenway underway, Newham now lacks any north-south routes like those you saw and is making painfully slow progress with Romford Rd.
