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That plod on the right, looks too overweight, and sporting a man bun! what a disgrace
Are mobility cars worth considering if you only do around 2,750 miles a year?
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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!!
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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I'm thinking 'big brother' watching you, rather than the the mobility lot! They'll be recording where you go on every journey.🙄
ebikeerwidnes
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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!
Alex321
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Who cares?
"They" don't have the time or resources to monitor everybody, nor would they really have any reason to.
There’s something quite odd in that people actually think their important enough to warrant watching.🫣
DRM
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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
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DRM
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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
ebikeerwidnes
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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
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
biggs682
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As others have said yes it allows the facility to watch / record data but that's the same as your smart phone
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According to this report, for every 1,000 miles you do over the proposed 10,000 miles cap, you will be charged £250 at the end of the lease. Obviously Motobility want to sell their three year old vehicles with a low mileage, reflecting the average annual mileage of private cars for sale. That may be so, but if I'd have applied for one, with me averaging 2,750 miles a year, probably dropping to say 2,000 when I get my bus pass, my Mobility car would only do 6,000 over it's three year lease. Would there be a reward for leasing a car and doing hardly any miles in it? I doubt there would be! If there was, how about a £250 refund on every 1,000 miles under the 10,000 cap!🤔
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/motability-introducing-red-rating-could-33859861
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/motability-introducing-red-rating-could-33859861
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Like a bloke I was talking to last night about Mobility cars said, why lease a car that'd hardly move from its parking space! He told me that he has enough points to apply for one, but like me decided to buy a little runaround in decent condition, rather than have a big flashy 4x4 or a 'they all look the same' electric none descript car. I think there'd be a temptation to do more miles than you need to if you had one, just to justify having a Mobility vehicle and to feel you are getting what you paid for!
