Falling for it.

That title would work better with American readers.

And it's taken an Australian site to point this story out to me.

It's a crime that only works in the Autumn.

A UK driver taped a leaf over one letter of his number plate in order to fool speed cameras.

Ingenious.

Until you think about it.

That last character must be a letter of the alphabet but can't be an I or a Q.

The remaining characters are visible and the colour, make and model of car will be visible too - I wonder if it was a Nissan Leaf.

So not surprising that he was caught and fined.

So no more Autumnal tomfoolery.

He'll have to wait for Spring now when the blossom is out.

Bright and Dim

Bright is this advert in the Top Gear Magazine delivered to my house today.

What is bright about it is those headlamps really are lit up.  It uses the same technology you find in greetings cards that make noises when you open them.  I guess that the technology has become economical enough to insert into however many thousands of copies Top Gear Magazine produce in a run.

 

And what better a product than the Nissan Leaf to advertise using this technology?

 

Although I'm sure Elon Musk will be a bit miffed when he finds out.

 

Meanwhile, Dim is Donald Trump.  Here's the story, from CNN, about how he thought that the Japanese dropped bowling balls onto cars to test their safety. 

White House spokeswomble, Sarah Huckerbee Sanders than had to go on record to say he was only joking.

Sorry Sarah, but if you expect anyone of intelligence to believe that, then you re as stupid as The President.

Nissan Leaf

Leading, Environmentally-Friendly, Affordable, Family Car.

Some good news for the British car industry - it's going to be built in Sunderland (amongst other places Worldwide) Top speed about 90mph - range about 100 miles - although obviously not both at the same time. Cost estimated at about £20K to £25K which seems a bit bit steep for something that's going to struggle once you get out of town but then again, I suppose it's the City Centre user that this is aimed at. Although City-Centre people may have issues charging it from home, they don't tend to have drives to park their cars on and charging will take about 8 hours - which seems par for the course for current (ha! "current" geddit!?) electric vehicles. Feel sorry for our American cousins with their 110V supplies - it'll take them twice as long. I'm definately not too sure about the looks. The rear looks very strange - the relatively small wheels don't help...




As for the front, it took me a while to work out what that reminded me of.

And, then it came to me...