Dukes of Hazzard anyone ?

[Drago]

You” d almost think it was made up, eh?

Absolutely. After all who'd develop a high performance autonomous car and bestow it with John Inman's voice? Then only thing missing is the flappy wrist.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode, where they are watching Knight-Boat - the crime solving boat and Lisa asks why is there always an inlet or a Fjord

Edit:

Here it is


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoV1-fsFCmw

It reminds me of those Bob Ross painting things, where he'd do pretty much the same thing each week. 🤦‍♂️🤣

 

[Punkawallah]

It reminds me of those Bob Ross painting things, where he'd do pretty much the same thing each week. 🤦‍♂️🤣

Are you sure you weren’t just watching the same episode over and over?

 

[Beebo]

It reminds me of those Bob Ross painting things, where he'd do pretty much the same thing each week. 🤦‍♂️🤣

Let me guess.
A mountain scene with pine trees and a lake?

 

[lazybloke]

Even those vehicles protecting mobile road workers with the massive yellow board and large flashing amber lights get rear ended.

But difficult to know if they'd get hit more often if they were small and not brightly coloured?

 

[Drago]

But difficult to know if they'd get hit more often if they were small and not brightly coloured?

We know from numbers gathered long term by the DfT (and DoT before it) that there is no measurable reduction in casualties attributable to the wearing of hi vis by road workers.

That being the case, its difficult to see how applying the same principles of apparent conspicuity to an inanimate object, such as vehicle, in the same environment would bring about a different result.

 

[Punkawallah]

We know from numbers gathered long term by the DfT (and DoT before it) that there is no measurable reduction in casualties attributable to the wearing of hi vis by road workers.

That being the case, its difficult to see how applying the same principles of apparent conspicuity to an inanimate object, such as vehicle, in the same environment would bring about a different result.

And of course, ‘you can never travel the same river twice’.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Are you sure you weren’t just watching the same episode over and over?

I did begin to wonder after a while, I won't deny. 🤣

Let me guess.
A mountain scene with pine trees and a lake?

Yep!

And of course, ‘you can never travel the same river twice’.

No but if you are Bob Ross, then you can paint it twice! 🤣

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Dukes of Wisbech

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That was originally done many years (20?) for Practical Classics magazine

The wheels in your link, are more correct, than the earlier Minilites

I have this book (330+ pages)
Plus, somewhere, the 2 original cast movies

 

[presta]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyufxcEQPGc

 

[MontyVeda]

When they can't see something like that, why do people think cyclists will be protected by wearing a bright vest?

I'm wondering with the truck bed lowered to the road like that i might not stand out very much at all. It'd just be a greyish rectangle completely concealing the truck. I don't think they routinely paint bright yellow chevrons on the actual bed.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

In the DOH, there was always that handy set of roadworks conveniently in the shape of a take -off ramp . Same in Knight Rider, always admired how KITT adjusted his landing angle mid-flight to avoid going into the ground like a dart....

Plus The Fall Guy

 

[lazybloke]

We know from numbers gathered long term by the DfT (and DoT before it) that there is no measurable reduction in casualties attributable to the wearing of hi vis by road workers.

That being the case, its difficult to see how applying the same principles of apparent conspicuity to an inanimate object, such as vehicle, in the same environment would bring about a different result.

Fascinating.
Either the hivis doesn't work at all, or it works in such a vanishingly small number of situations that stats haven't emerged.

Possibly there's enough data to determine which possibility is applicable.

A friend drove into the side of a cyclist; the cyclist had been wearing dark clothing and had no lights. Seems to me that conspicuity might have helped.

 

[Punkawallah]

Fascinating.
Either the hivis doesn't work at all, or it works in such a vanishingly small number of situations that stats haven't emerged.

Possibly there's enough data to determine which possibility is applicable.

A friend drove into the side of a cyclist; the cyclist had been wearing dark clothing and had no lights. Seems to me that conspicuity might have helped.

I have been hit twice by cars while on the bike, both times in good visibility, at low-ish speed, wearing everyday clothes (both times by a woman driver, but that’s another topic). Now I wear a hi-vis vest, but unfastened. I think the flapping cloth (and white trainers bobbing up and down) has more chance of ‘getting me noticed’, as we are ‘hard wired’ to take notice of movement. I’ll let you know how the experiment turns out.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Plus The Fall Guy

Enjoying re-watching that on Legend Channel, not seen it since the 80's. Colts truck was more suited to the jumps with that massive beefed up suspension.