Are mobility cars worth considering if you only do around 2,750 miles a year?

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Webbo2

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That plod on the right, looks too overweight, and sporting a man bun! what a disgrace

It’s a rat race trying to get your style noticed in Accys manor, so even the law have to go rogue to get some awareness.😎
 
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Accy cyclist

Accy cyclist

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Accys been saying hurty words no doubt to illicit such a response from plod ?

Apparently, they'd had reports of me driving 'eratically'. All I remember doing was blocking the path of one of those who doesn't think he has to indicate to cut in front of you. He/she was in the wrong lane for the roundabout turn off, treating it as an overtaking lane. Obviously me blocking their path and making them cut in behind me, not in front of me rattled their cage, so they phoned the plod and bigged up their story. For eratic driving, see 47 years a motorist teaches dickhead the rules of exiting a roundabout. Anyway, as you say, 'such a response from the plod'! Yes, two cars and must've been five plod, there for fifty minutes. All for a report of 'eratic' driving. No wonder folk have little trust in them!!
 
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Accy cyclist

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I don't think it's a bad idea

I'm thinking 'big brother' watching you, rather than the the mobility lot! They'll be recording where you go on every journey.🙄

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I'm thinking 'big brother' watching you, rather than the the mobility lot! They'll be recording where you go on every journey.🙄

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I do wonder about people getting up in Arms about "people tracking me" in their cars and things like that

and annotate they post on Social media with photos and videos

and totally miss the irony of posting it - and so revealing yourself to them
and carrying round a phone which broadcasts you location all the time
and using it to take photos that have the location where it was taken encoded on it
(although that is stripped off by a lot of sites - but you can pin-point it quite easily by free website quite often just from the image!
 

DRM

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West Yorks
Who cares?

"They" don't have the time or resources to monitor everybody, nor would they really have any reason to.

it will only trigger if the driver does something wrong, ie harsh acceleration, or braking, speeding, harsh cornering etc, nobody monitors anything, it sends an alert to the company who runs the tracker, who then send a report to whoever needs to know, in this instance motability & their insurers
 
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Accy cyclist

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it will only trigger if the driver does something wrong, ie harsh acceleration, or braking, speeding, harsh cornering etc, nobody monitors anything, it sends an alert to the company who runs the tracker, who then send a report to whoever needs to know, in this instance motability & their insurers

In other words those with a black box fitted ARE being watched! You do one thing wrong and Mobility will know about it. You do one thing wrong in your own, black box free car and unless it's filmed on a roadside camera, no one will know!
 

DRM

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West Yorks
In other words those with a black box fitted ARE being watched! You do one thing wrong and Mobility will know about it. You do one thing wrong in your own, black box free car and unless it's filmed on a roadside camera, no one will know!

Yes, nobody sits watching your every move, but it automatically flags what it considers bad driving, then sends an E Mail & Text alert to anyone who has an interest in seeing it
 
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So if you are in an incident - like a crash - then it will show any sudden acceleration and what speed you were doing

which can be viewed in 2 ways

a) they are watching you and will jump on you and prove you did "something wrong"

b) it will be available to show that you were driving properly so it must have been the fault of the vehicle

but no-one is sitting there monitoring you
it is basically the same as driving with a dash cam
or, for that matter - cycling with a camera
 
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