When a driver refuses a Driver Awareness Course

[ufkacbln]

Echo location... Dolphins swear by it.

Sounds batty to me

 

[Lemond]

Which of my posts do you take exception to old darling? Don't let it fester, speak up, nothing to be scared of!

All of them?

 

[glenn forger]

Then I reckon it's time you went to the police. This stalking and harassment every time I force you to read my posts is becoming beyond the pale. Cyber bullying, plain and simple.

 

[glenn forger]

On Wednesday, driver David Phillips, 46, was fined £500, ordered to pay an extra £200 costs and had his licence endorsed with six points after magistrates found him guilty of careless driving.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ile-cycling-campaigner-off-bike-a3135406.html

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 4049667, member: 259"]Could you please add a mention to your first post saying this is a link to a TrafficDroid video on YouTube.

I would never had clicked on it if I'd known it was giving that idiot some income. @Moderators ?[/QUOTE]
Check what a cookie, brightcove, is uploading.

 

[mustang1]

I'm not sure at what point the cyclist was riding like a.nobber? I saw when the driver drove like a nobber though.

Also, not sure what cyclist having or not having a job has got anything to do with the accident? Shrugs.

 

[Globalti]

The cyclist has taken his act beyond what most people would consider normal or reasonable; by all means wear a helmet cam or use a dash cam but to festoon yourself with cameras and lights as he does, begins to look like paranoia to me or even paranoid schizophrenia, since he seems to have an unreal view of his relationship with the world around him. As somebody else wrote above, his provocation of London's taxi drivers, a close-knit and notoriously "conservative" community, is doing nothing to improve relations between taxi drivers and cyclists and I'm sorry to say this but the fact that he's black won't help London cabbies to love him any more; I used to know a London cabbie quite well and I shudder to think what he must be saying about Traffic Droid in the cabbies' tea shelter or wherever they gather to gossip.

I don't know how Youtube works but is it possible that he's earning quite decent cash from the hits on his videos?

 

[Hip Priest]

The cyclist has taken his act beyond what most people would consider normal or reasonable; by all means wear a helmet cam or use a dash cam but to festoon yourself with cameras and lights as he does, begins to look like paranoia to me or even paranoid schizophrenia, since he seems to have an unreal view of his relationship with the world around him. As somebody else wrote above, his provocation of London's taxi drivers, a close-knit and notoriously "conservative" community, is doing nothing to improve relations between taxi drivers and cyclists and I'm sorry to say this but the fact that he's black won't help London cabbies to love him any more; I used to know a London cabbie quite well and I shudder to think what he must be saying about Traffic Droid in the cabbies' tea shelter or wherever they gather to gossip.

I don't know how Youtube works but is it possible that he's earning quite decent cash from the hits on his videos?

I agree with you up to a point, but ultimately this clip is cut-and-dried. The cabbie knocked him off his bike.

 

[Origamist]

Well, I did tell you...

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-justice-league-of-camera-cyclist-ride-out.179836/post-3868398

It's just that the cabbie's hubris brought about the court appearance.

 

[liambauckham]

Sorry to break it to you.........

ha ha ha you cheeky **** ;-)

 

[classic33]

!Droid, who submits up to 20 videos a week to police from his daily eight mile commute through central London, says he was so scared after the taxi incident released last week, he avoided the route or walked along the pavement instead for two weeks afterwards."

Traffic Droid: I'm no vigilante
http://road.cc/content/news/173007-traffic-droid-im-no-vigilante

 

[srw]

!Droid, who submits up to 20 videos a week to police from his daily eight mile commute through central London, says he was so scared after the taxi incident released last week, he avoided the route or walked along the pavement instead for two weeks afterwards."

Traffic Droid: I'm no vigilante
http://road.cc/content/news/173007-traffic-droid-im-no-vigilante

Mr Droid has an eight mile daily commute through central London and finds 20 things per week he wants to report to police - that's 4 per day.

I have a nine-mile commute through central London (that's both ways) which I do two or three times per week. On a typical day I don't see anything resembling dangerous driving or cycling, have never had anyone trying to knock me off, and I can't remember the last time I've seen anything bad enough to want to report it to the police. I think I'm a reasonably observant rider, and I'm certainly assertive.

I wonder whether Mr Droid has ever considered whether the common factor isn't actually the drivers he encounters?

 

[Globalti]

I've known a couple of characters like him in recent years; one was a neighbour who I think was just bloody-minded. He was always in conflict with authority and had files of letters to and from various organisations, mostly the Council, on a wide range of subjects that had vexed him over the years. The other, also a neighbour, was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and he had spent most of his adult life antagonising the local fly fishing association and the courts, he was a clever man who would always represent himself in court and always ran rings around the magistrates and the plaintiff's lawyers. Then on the seventh attempt they brought in a big gun from Manchester, won their case and were awarded £60,000, meaning his cottage was taken from him and following a spell in hospital (the event unsettled him badly, as it would anybody) he ended up incarcerated in a men's home in Blackpoool, fat, pale and unfit and doped to the eyeballs like the characters in Cuckoo's Nest. The Establishment has a way of getting you in the end if you irritate them.

I reckon Traffic Droid needs to watch out and wind his neck in or somebody will get him one day. The next "off" at the hands of a taxi driver might not be a harmless dab of the foot and roll to the ground and he isn't exactly difficult to spot.

 

[Arrowfoot]

I met the Droid once somewhere along Oxford Street coming out of a coffeeshop. He was setting up his gear and we chatted. Seemed to be nice guy but certainly excessive, no make that obsessive. We are all eccentric in some ways but I have no doubt that he must upset enough people along the way. The cabbie however was very deliberate in his action and totally unacceptable. I am actually surprised that the Police suggested Driving awareness course when the intention is very clear. Interestingly the cabbie dug his own hole. What a champ and with a video at hand.

 

[glenn forger]

I'm not sure how the cyclist's riding style causes drivers to use mobile phones, which is the bulk of the incidents he reports and squares with the half a dozen people I'd see on the phone on a 8 mile London commute.