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The commercial UK company selling #medical #cannabis and organising legal prescriptions (its not impossible even in UK!) is legit and /partly/ correct - first two points are accurate but third has a grey area. Reality (confirmed by many comments on the FB sponsored post) is #DVLA are often notified by patients GP - patient often has to jump through extra hoops to keep their #driving #licence and #insurance premiums will be loaded.

#Police can still stop them at roadside controls - if swab comes up positive (which is very likely) they can still be nicked on /suspicion/ of drug driving - since 2015 in England/Wales and 2019 Scotland system operates as "guilty until proven innocent" - patient will have to argue their case in Court and have bail hanging over their head for *months*!

#MetPol seized 72 luxury #cars and made multiple #arrests for road #traffic #offences as part of a crackdown on anti-social #driving in the centre of #London (they seem to do this every year, to some extent a PR exercise especially as they can brag about "getting tough on foreigners" (as many of the drivers of these cars seem to be from outside the UK)

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp948x

Two purple Lamborghinis, each with a sign that reads: "Seized by Police" on the windscreen
BBC NewsTwin Lamborghinis seized in central London supercar crackdownPolice seize 72 vehicles worth £6m in an operation across Hyde Park, Kensington and Chelsea.

The Hindu: Why Hyderabad’s roads look worse on online maps than in real life. “Inside the Hyderabad Traffic Control Room, a wall of screens show vehicles moving steadily along a major corridor. Yet, on a mobile phone, Google Maps paints a different picture — the same stretch marked in deep red, signalling heavy congestion that doesn’t match the live feed in the control room. Such […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/the-hindu-why-hyderabads-roads-look-worse-on-online-maps-than-in-real-life/

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alojapan.com/1339423/koreas-au Korea’s Autonomous A2Z, Kanematsu team up for Level 4 self-driving in Japan #Autonomous #driving #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #Korea #news #selfdriving Han Ji-hyeong (left), CEO of Autonomous A2Z, and Koichiro Okamoto, general manager of Kanematsu Corp., pose after signing an autonomous driving partnership between the two companies in Tokyo on Monday. (Autonomous A2Z) Korean autonomous driving solutions provider Autonomous A2Z announc

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@MelissaBearTrix
A lot about #driving pisses me off as well, and all of those things involve other drivers. If it wasn’t for my love of ‘driving’ (or ‘riding’ for that matter), I’d stay in my cave and have the things I need home delivered.

I have in recent year endeavoured to be ‘zen-like’ behind the wheel. As soon as something occurs to upset me, I remind myself that most drivers are machine operators, not drivers, and that they haven’t been taught to ‘drive’ at all. Then, I ponder the fact that, whomever they are, these ‘machine operators’ are doing their level best at the job (I cannot know what is going on in their head, or all the circumstance that make them drive that way). That seems to keep me sane on the road and ‘defensive’ — as every driver/ride should be, and take some joy in driving even in frustrating circumstances. .