Comment Re:UK is Dysfunction Junction (Score 1) 691
You can check if your vehicle, or any other, is insured online.
The maximum legal size for a fuel can is 10 litres, but you rarely see them on sale. Most are 5 litres
Anyone walking is unlikely to carry a 10 litre container
If a 25 litre container were legal, when full of fuel it would be near impossible for most people to carry far without a vehicle.
How big is your lawn? Most buy at most 5 litres to last all season and pour whats left at the end into the car
I think motor trade policies might be different, but unless you're a motor trader you won't have one of those.
Motor traders will be driving on trade plates, which will be picked up by the system as valid.
This is useful - most fully-comprehensive policies give you third party cover driving any car which isn't yours as long as you have the owner's permission.
The car you are driving has to be insured by the owner.
If they use CCTV to catch uninsured cars, it must be massively ineffective, since there are 1.4 million uninsured cars still. This in a country whose total population is only about 70 million. It sounds like they just need to pick a day and set up roadblocks, impounding all uninsured cars found. Repeat until that 1.4 million is down to some less insane number.
They already know, and publish, the areas with the highest proportion of un-insured vehicles, so they could target those areas.
What's to say that they will have an override button?
There will have to be, but you can bet your life it will be logged and over use investigated.
Fuel for lawnmower, maximum 10 litres, usually sold in the spring. Thats when I fill my can up, then whats left gets poured into the car at the end of September (fuel goes stale), when the lawn is cut for the last time. But most will fill the can when they are filling the car.
Insurance error, log of details, confirmation from insurance company.
My other favourite with the congestion charge was people applying for a private-hire taxi license, which only cost £82 to apply and then £27pa. Then you were exempt from the £8 per day congestion charge. From memory there were Lamborghinis and Rolls Royces registered in this way.
They should make it illegal for a taxi driver to refuse a fare.
In the UK, I have only come across them with 4 brands, 3 being major supermarkets.
Shell (not all), Tesco and Morrisions give you the choice to pay at pump, or fill up and then pay at the shop after filling up. Tesco, I know, becomes unmanned and therefore pay-at-pump only at night when the shop is closed. I have not been to a Shell or Morrisons at night to know.
Asda (owned by Walmart), usually have a separate line for pay at pump, the others having a desk to drive up to pay after refueling. They also have some completely unmanned petrol stations which are pay at pump only.
Exactly, and similarly what happens if you run out of petrol and have to walk to a garage with an empty petrol can, will the pumps refuse to serve you?
Will probably work the same way it does at the moment, remember the ANPR cameras already exist and prevent you refueling without capturing your registration number. I guess you just talk nicely to the cashier, which you sometimes need to do anyway as they may check that your container is a proper one and not an old oil can.
Mind you I would not fancy a 2 mile walk to the petrol station and back carrying a 5-litres of petrol, I always fill mine when I am refueling the car.
Petrol mowers are not that common in the UK, most are electric, hover types
Or when a child's ball comes bouncing into the street.
A very good example, the primary objective is not to avoid the ball. Would love to see how they handle all of the single track roads around here.
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