Its part of the premium entitlement pack that Mercedes offers for people who can afford their largest ugliest cars. Premium allows Red lights to be ignored, parking in disabled bays and child and parent bays at supermarkets and also last minute lane change from right turn only to straight ahead. Range Rover do a similar pack for their SVRs.
@louscannonmagoo9989 I always wondered why that was, obviously I'm too poor. John Finnemore's Souvenier Programme [Radio 4] had a sketch about an intelligent car that would avoid crashes and had a programmable moral system, on maximum it would run over David Attenborough taking the last male tiger to a breeding programme.
He was right to carry on as he had already positioned himself for doing so. Had he stopped where he was when the light went to amber, he would have caused an obstruction to oncoming traffic.
@mica412 - Thanks for the comment and your correction. As you say, the learner was correct in carrying on, they were beyond the sign when the lights began to change, the Merc though...
Seen that a few times but what worries me is that on a bike, I'll stop and the tosser in an SUv behind won't. A survey a few years ago revealed that people with a certain amount of wealth above what they consider the average, feel the law applies to other people more that them. The more money people have, the less they think the law applies to them. Is that why BMW drivers don't like to indicate?
@brockett - BMW drivers are actually instructed not to use indicators as these are the only parts of the car that have a 300 000 mile warranty and they don't want to replace them!
@andrewatherton316 I'm just glad they could go around me, I have been nearly hit a few times stopping at a red. In the UK we have a law that allows you to break a law if it prevents someone coming to harm or a 'greater' [my word, I don't know the legal jargon] law being broken. It was used as a defence in the UK when a bunch of people broke into the BAe factory and took a hammer to Hawk jets as they were being sold to a middle east country. ***Saudi I believe, that had a dodgy human rights record.*** Note the asterisked section above is incorrect, it was Indonesia. I mean about the destination of the jets, not the human rights record.
@andrewatherton316 Which context are you using this in, the red light jump or the Hawk jets? From the wording and reply I think you mean the latter. FM [if I may call it that] is something that can be written in and cited in UK contract law rather than in a legal term. There is a [biased] article about the Hawk case here: www.opendemocracy.net/en/disarming-war-hawk-ploughshares-story/
Its part of the premium entitlement pack that Mercedes offers for people who can afford their largest ugliest cars. Premium allows Red lights to be ignored, parking in disabled bays and child and parent bays at supermarkets and also last minute lane change from right turn only to straight ahead. Range Rover do a similar pack for their SVRs.
@louscannonmagoo9989 I always wondered why that was, obviously I'm too poor.
John Finnemore's Souvenier Programme [Radio 4] had a sketch about an intelligent car that would avoid crashes and had a programmable moral system, on maximum it would run over David Attenborough taking the last male tiger to a breeding programme.
He was right to carry on as he had already positioned himself for doing so. Had he stopped where he was when the light went to amber, he would have caused an obstruction to oncoming traffic.
Apologies. I never saw the car behind the learner🤣🤣🤣
@mica412 - Thanks for the comment and your correction. As you say, the learner was correct in carrying on, they were beyond the sign when the lights began to change, the Merc though...
Seen that a few times but what worries me is that on a bike, I'll stop and the tosser in an SUv behind won't. A survey a few years ago revealed that people with a certain amount of wealth above what they consider the average, feel the law applies to other people more that them. The more money people have, the less they think the law applies to them. Is that why BMW drivers don't like to indicate?
@brockett - BMW drivers are actually instructed not to use indicators as these are the only parts of the car that have a 300 000 mile warranty and they don't want to replace them!
People are FEDUP of these so called road works . None of them are doing anything . 3 days job last 3 months .
I don’t blame these people anymore .
I agree about the length of coned off areas but not about the red light jump.
Never a good look to be condoning law breaking for whatever 'valid' reason.
@andrewatherton316 I'm just glad they could go around me, I have been nearly hit a few times stopping at a red.
In the UK we have a law that allows you to break a law if it prevents someone coming to harm or a 'greater' [my word, I don't know the legal jargon] law being broken. It was used as a defence in the UK when a bunch of people broke into the BAe factory and took a hammer to Hawk jets as they were being sold to a middle east country. ***Saudi I believe, that had a dodgy human rights record.***
Note the asterisked section above is incorrect, it was Indonesia. I mean about the destination of the jets, not the human rights record.
@@TheRantyRider Force Majeure? An unexpected event which may excuse a party from the terms of contract.
@andrewatherton316 Which context are you using this in, the red light jump or the Hawk jets? From the wording and reply I think you mean the latter.
FM [if I may call it that] is something that can be written in and cited in UK contract law rather than in a legal term. There is a [biased] article about the Hawk case here:
www.opendemocracy.net/en/disarming-war-hawk-ploughshares-story/