On 01/07/2019 15:47, tim... wrote:


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 15:06:20 on Mon, 1 Jul
2019, tim... remarked:

as I said, on level ground, Neutral works just as well

And as Roland correctly said, it's less safe.

for a tiny possibility

You should always have a
brake on when stationary.

so you say

I hope it would be a driving test failure not to have any brake on.

and who drives as per the test 40 years later?

In an important safety matter such as this?

on the one in a million chance I'm going to be rear ended

get real

It's trivial compared to the number of times a week I might slip one or
two miles over the speed limit in a built up area

Or the number of times a week I see people jump the lights as they are
turning red.Â* -Â* I try not to do that, but now that I have moved much of
my travel to being a bus passenger I am amazed at the number of times
the [1] bus driver does this

So common is this now that there is good reason to suspect that TaL
bus-drivers have been informally advised that TaL will not prosecute
them for going through traffic lights within x seconds after the light
has turned red for the direction from which they were travelling.

tim

[1] that's not the same bus driver every time I use the bus, feel free
to correct my grammar here.