On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at 11:17:45 PM UTC+5:30, Adriaan Renting wrote:
> I am Dutch and after googling the term, I can confirm that the "Dutch
> Reach" is taught in driving school here.
> I was taught this maneuvre when getting my licence 20 years ago.
> And in the Netherlands, we large
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:14:45 +0100, Adriaan Renting wrote:
> I am Dutch and after googling the term, I can confirm that the "Dutch
> Reach" is taught in driving school here. I was taught this maneuvre when
> getting my licence 20 years ago.
Thanks for the data point. Was it a requirement of the d
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:39:26 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote:
> Also, I just wanted to add that if you're going to use the side mirror
> then you need to watch it for a couple of seconds rather than a quick
> glance. Most people's mirrors are not particularly well adjusted to
> capture the car's blind spot
On 2018-01-30, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> Unless the bike lane is between the "parallel parking lane" and the
>> curb[*], in which case it's the passenger side doors that are used to
>> catch bicycles rather than the driver's side doors.
>>
>> [*] This seems to be increasingly common here in the Minnea
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:24 AM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2018-01-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:29 +, Matt Wheeler wrote:
>>
>>> Checking the side mirrors isn't particularly helpful advice if you're
>>> sitting in any seat other than the driver's seat, however.
>>
>
On 2018-01-30 15:39, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:
[...]
Ah, yes, the Dutch Reach. That would be like the French Pox (which
isn't French), the Spanish Flu (that didn't start in Spain), the
Jerusalem artichoke (which is neither an artichoke nor fro
On 2018-01-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:29 +, Matt Wheeler wrote:
>
>> Checking the side mirrors isn't particularly helpful advice if you're
>> sitting in any seat other than the driver's seat, however.
>
> That's a fair point.
>
> But it really only applies to those
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:29 +, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> Checking the side mirrors isn't particularly helpful advice if you're
> sitting in any seat other than the driver's seat, however.
That's a fair point.
But it really only applies to those sitting on the driver's side in the
back seat. On
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 at 15:39 Steven D'Aprano <
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> This effectively and completely undermines the supposed claim that this
> technique makes it *automatic* to look behind you for on-coming cyclists.
> That simply isn't the case. Whether you use the arm cl
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:48:15 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:
[...]
>> Ah, yes, the Dutch Reach. That would be like the French Pox (which
>> isn't French), the Spanish Flu (that didn't start in Spain), the
>> Jerusalem artichoke (which is neither an artichoke nor from Jerusalem),
>> and the turkey (the b
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