It's not a new thing. Look for the box on top of the camera. It looks like a little camera pointing towards you. Thats the light sensor. Most lights can change their pattern from Timed in Rush hour. Sensored at night or just switch themselves off at night.

Most lights don't change for the services though. They just pile through them. Maybe big citys get them sorted well enough but in general the emergency vehicle is through before the lights get a chance to react.

Plus they could never decide whether it was better to change the entire junction to red, or the entry for the emergency vehicly to green or what.

It's all to do with sailing. It wouldn't have really mattered where the Mean time was. It just happens to be in Greenwich. (Do not pronounce as written. It's GREN-ITCH) It's happens to be in Greenwich because we where sailing around a lot then being all imperialistic and needed a navicable time system. Thus we placed some brass on the floor at what ever median it's on, called it GMT and the sailing ships knew when they should have hit America.

It could have been the Le Line De Paris or something if the french had got there first.

So thats why we have it. Im sure I could get a bit more technical once I've done some research.

And in regards to locking your wheels in LFS. I still see no need to at any point of racing. Any benefit you gain from it (If there is any, which is still debatable) would be completly outstripped by the damage you do to your tyres. I have always been taught that locked wheels is a bad thing. I don't rally, which is the only place that I can see locking (rears) working in the cars favour. In lfs, in normal racing conditions on a normal race track locking any tyre is just bad. Don't do it. It's very naughty.

Don't take no shit from noone. Don't dish it out either because that would be hypocritical. But don't take no shit from noone.

I wouldn't say no to an MX5. I might not go out and get one but everyone proper driver knows that it is not a bad car at all.

It's the kinda car that could go either way on the hairdresser chart. But at least it ain't Chav. The new one don't look that bad either.

Tristan, my boy. If your happy driving your Mixxy then don't let anyone say you shouldn't be.

Ok. Don't flame me for this. I mean I tried. I really did. I even doubled back and reread some parts. I even read it backwards and with a mirror. I phoned up my 12 year old nephew and asked him and even he couldn't understand it. I took my glasses off. I put them back on again. I got a glass of water and even cleaned the screen.

But none of it worked.

None of it could make me understand any of what was written in that last post.

Mate. No offense but learn to write the queens english. It will definatly help in the understanding.

Funnybear.
A.K.A. English speaking.

There is a setting to tie in head movement to steering input. Can't remember what it is off hand. Probable in control settings or view settings. Or might even be in the driver settings.

The UFR is front engined and front wheel drive. Corner entry is never going to be it's strong point. But you should be able to get it sorted by LEARNING how to change the setup. Try softening the suspension a bit if it's skipping.

'Tis a thing I have noticed on occasion as well. I'm sure a certain amount of friction will be added when Scawen is ready to put it in.

Try and stick with one car. They each have very distinctive handling characturistics. The FZR, rear wheel drive, rear engined needs carefull setup balancing to get the best of it throught the corners whilst the XRR is front engined rear wheel drive. It can be faster through the nendy stuff but the FZR can out strip it down the straights if you are driving it right.

I was an FZR driver so if you choose that car I can probs help you a bit with that car. I don't have LFS installed atm (Crap computer) but I was playing past the last patch and got some good times on AST. NAT. (For a mouser).

So. Choose a car that you can put some time and effort into. Get used to it's characturistics, how it moves through a corner. Don't force the cars to do anything, all cars have only a finite amount of grip and as LFS is as realistic as you are going to get in regards to mechanical attributes then these cars will not react like an arcade racer. You need to put time and effort into learning the cars and the tracks.

Driving skill count for (For narative ease I shall split this down the middle) 50% of your track speed. You need to be able to drive the car properly to get the best from it. Very often you need to do the opposite of what you would think. SLOW DOWN. Don't carry so much speed into the corners. Let the car drive arond them and get your exit speed up. Greater exit speed, faster straight line speed.

Be smooth. Jabbing at the brake and the accelerator and the steering does not a fast driver make. Learn your brake points, learn your turn in points and learn your foot down points. By just looking at your driving you should be able to take chunks out of your time without having to touch your setup.

Which brings me nicely onto the other 50% of the LFS experiance. The setups.

I thouroughly reccomend learning how to setup your cars. Read the manuals that are available and mess around with the settings on the track. (Preferable an empty server, other racers can get a bit annoyed if you continually get in the way whilst your trying out new sets and whatnot). The sets are such an intergral part of LFS that you will never be able to catch the fast guys unless you can adapt your sets to the situation at hand. It's all well and good 'inheriting' setups but you will get so much more from LFS if you learn what all the functions do yourself. That way you can go to any track with any car and adapt it to your own driving style.

So. Pick a car. (FZR was my favorite. Thats the car I can help you with the setup. With the other GT's I can only be of general assistance)

Learn the track and learn how to setup.

Any specific setup questions come back here and we'll see if we can help.

And above all. Practice. Practice and practice some more.

Happy racing.

I can imagine what was going through that chaps mind who was running out the way... .


FFFFFFAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGGHELL!!

WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE. RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

I'm alive. Oh my god. I'm alive. My trousers are slighty damp but I'm alive. Thankyou god. Thankyou.


Edit - Just watched that BMW chase. I loved the woman at the end jumping the hood and bherating the man and only at the end going back to her baby. Which was being rocked by a copper on the hood of a crashed car. Hmmmm, petrol anyone? If that was blighty they would have been outta there faster than you can say 'anyone got a light?'

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That was control . . (Apart from the initial) even whilst on his side he was steering into the roll and kept the power on. His co driver must have shat himself.

I know my local airfield (Abingdon. Oxon.) lets cars on every once in a while. They test (did) the jordans and williams F1 cars on the runway. It's still used as a training field and the army logistics core use the main base. But it might be worth giving them a ring.

But thinking about it it might be too busy a place to be cheap. But you never know.

Used to sit on the end of the runway when I was a nipper and watch the Lightenings take off. Straight up at full after burner. Man those things where loud. Plus the last Vulcans wher housed here too. They where a magnificent sight.

Give 'em a ring.

I think that the world cup as a whole as been one of the worst world cups I have seen. The behaviour of players, the seemingly bizarre ref'ing, our (England) rather lacklutstre performance.

I think the professional behaviour of the majority of players just brings the sport down. I'm not getting at the reactions of Zidane or Rooney for example but the goading and the winding up that takes place. It's wrong and completly unsportsmen like. If I was Zidane and someone took my familys name in vain the way the Italian did I would have done more than just head butt him. I would have made sure he never played foorball again. All this falling over, name calling theatrical charade is destroying the beautiful game.

It's up to us to turn our backs and show our disapproval. Take away the revenue and the sponsership audience and the playing will soon pick up.

People power. A global movement to bring football back to the common man. Just turn your backs. It will be difficult. And the road will be long one but you have to play the long game. And you never know, put all your support into your local club team and who knows where it could take you.

Yep. But can you wait until I've taken the other 4,684,006 people before you on the list.

I think I need a bigger car.

I Think Ronaldo basically sums up everything that I depsise about modern football. Don't get me wrong, i will watch a good game of football with the most avid supported any day, but I refuse to watch poncy, overpaid, underskilled, boufonted, quifed, crybabies fall over all over the pitch. I wanted Ghana to go through. Watching them play was like watching the beautiful game the way god intended. 10 men moving up and down the pitch playing as a team. It was wonderful to see a well honed team play with skill and intteligence. I really wanted to see that kind of football inthe final. But no, we are given the waste of time that is Champion League Millionaires falling over and complaining about a bruised ego.

I think it's revolting. Ronaldo deserves all the derision he gets as does any other diving, crying wimp. You watch a good Rugby League game. Those guys are crying sweat, blood and tears and they still get up, shake the blood from their eys and go in for another hit.

We paid Sven 5 million quid a year, plus all the rest of it. And we get nothing in return. Same as those supposedly proffesional players. They get paid an absolute fortune and what do we get in return. Stroppy teenagers.

Make the world cup into a non professional game. Or players from bottom leagues. Then we might see some playing. Or some bad manners. I can't imagine a docker from the east end taking that kinda shit from Ronaldo. he would have done the job properly. Given that pretty boy a broken nose for his troubles.

This middle of the road playing for the crowd rubbish has to stop. We, the public have to boycot these big league players and start going to more local clubs. Support your home team.

There is too much money involved in the big names and teams. But they wouldn't have that if they didn't have an audience. Thats us. We ahve the power to change these things. One by one, slowly but surely. Just turn your back and find a brighter light.

You do have the power.

'But I never touched it!!'

The roads would be great if it wasn't for the other people. I think youshould have one designated driver per country. I claim Britain.

*sigh* I try.

It's got cold here again. I think summer is over. Good old british weather. The only country where global warming will take one look and consider it a wasted effort.

You do have to take into account that in LFS you can do stuff that a real car just couldn't do. You try and pull have the stunts that you can do in LFS, like reversing and flicking into first at full throttle no clutch, would just break stuff in real life. So if you are on the very edge of the perfomance envelope or pushing certain attributes then you won't get a real life equavalent because you just can't do those things in real life.

You probable do get tyre wobble in real life but it would be at such a frequency that you couldn't feel it through the suspension. Or you just lump that wobble into the whole suspension, chassis, tyre, big lardy arse gestalt.

Just a LFS defence.

Havn't we done the Moose example already?

Imagination people. We want old ladies, Athletic trees, drunk hunting on a saterday night. . . . or is that just me.

We do a good line in black ice. Here around oxford we get some of the coldest temps in the country but it's also one of the dryest areas (If you can believe that at the moment) So during the winter we can get snap freezes that put a lovely sheen of ice over the roads. Great thing black ice, you don't know your on it untill you try and turn a corner or stop. When you don't do either you know your on Black ice.

On topic with a point made earlier about stopping on gravel, would it be the same as stopping on snow?

I.e.the gravel builds up a wall in front of the tyre if you lock up, so the tyres dig in, whilst abs would allow you to ride over the top of the gravel? Just a thought.

Still not convinced that locking up your wheels on a race track is in any way beneficial.

What tyre pressures where you running?

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You mean Chevrolet, right?

Yea.Tell me about it. Needed a new split handbrake cable and a seatbelt mount for it's last MOT. Cost me a fortune to get Chevvy parts.Have since found out that it uses a Vauxhall Astra chassis, engine and running gear. Which means all I need is to go downthe breakers and find an astra to bastardise.

Damn thing. It's such a shit car.

But it gets me from A to B. Slowly and with quite alot of body roll.

I can't go below 25mph in my Daewoo Lanos whilst in 5th gear. Or is that the wrong end of the gear stick . . . Get it. Stick, gear stick. See what I did there.

God, I should be on stage.