The New Highway Code

[mr.anderson]

So come on then, who's going to go any buy one and tell us what's new?

no smoking behind the wheel

According to the news, most of the new items are only guidelines.
You will also find that most of it is just plain common sense, the smoking one is a very good example. Wife used to smoke while driving ( I used to tell her off all the time ), she stopped doing it when she lost control of the car and it scared the sh!t out of her.

The smoking thing is supposed to just be guidance and to help apportion blame in an accident (IE if someone crashes and they're smoking, they might be deemed to be more responsible on the grounds that they could have been distracted by it). Sadly, I hear they haven't put in any of Psychocannon's highway code recommendations. Maybe next revision?

Anyone know if they do a "what's new in highway code 1.75" thing at the front like IT docs so we don't have to read the whole thing?

Originally Posted by Ceri JC;

Anyone know if they do a "what's new in highway code 1.75" thing at the front like IT docs so we don't have to read the whole thing?

You refer to a "Change Log"....... what a good idea

Mind you, it does assume that the reader is familiar with the contents prior to change

[mr.anderson]

I don't theink they have added a change log.

The article in the paper did say that they should have highlighted the changes as "The Official Highway Code is for life, not just for passing your test"

Originally Posted by Jabba

You refer to a "Change Log"....... what a good idea

Mind you, it does assume that the reader is familiar with the contents prior to change

Sorry, I don't utter that dreaded combination of words, it brings me out in a rash. All too often, when customers ask me to preserve their customisationn to a system during an upgrade and when I ask to see their ch*nge l*g to enable me to do this, they look at me like I've just spoken in Swahili. After a bit of prodding they produce a document with one or two incredibly vague lines detailing gems such as, "Changes: Some reports" or, "All changes done by consultant". When I explain that this means nothing and I cannot make and promises on keeping the changes, they act indignantly as though the very existence of a file called "ch*nge l*g.xls" (irrespective of its contents) is some magical panacea that will save them. Gah, I need to lie down.

Whoops looks like I went off on a bit of a tangent there. Personally I think a ch*nge l*g is a good idea as with one, I'd read it; Without one, I won't.