@nutbastard: In one European country (I want to say Finland) it's a crime to ride a bicycle drunk, but only if you're a danger to pedestrians. This means that if you're REALLY drunk, you get away with it as you're going so slowly that it wouldn't matter if you hit someone.

@superveloce: Not sure about the rest of Europe, but certainly in Britain you can take the test in an auto- it's just that if you do that your license restricts you to driving an auto, and you have to take the test again (in a manual) to get an unrestricted license.

@izzor_noraa: I know someone whose local test centre (in the UK) was notorious for people failing in the parking lot. The space they'd ask you to either pull into at the end of the test or reverse into at the start has a drainpipe sticking into it- if you hit that, you fail.

@Timothy Neill: There's a reason why aircraft still have pilots, why trains still have drivers, and why ships have to have someone keeping watch on the bridge at all times. Automatic pilots are not perfect, and there can always be a situation which the computer wasn't programmed to deal with. Wait until the first few…

@FromaBuick6: Now with more 5.0: That would be the first non-grandfatherable safety regulation that I know of- so it would require everyone to buy a new car. That's pretty close to political suicide.

@FromaBuick6: Now with more 5.0: Those two are pretty much opposites. When you're driving, you should be driving and doing nothing else. And yes, a hands-free cell phone is more dangerous than talking to a passenger- passengers shut up when you're going through a tricky merge onto a freeway.

@calzonegolem: Possibly in the US. In London, though, tax evasion is a big plus- you don't have to pay the £8 congestion charge to go into the centre. Unlike the more awesome c-charge-exempt vehicles (Land Rover Defender 110, Buick Roadmaster wagon, LPG conversions) you can find fuel for it anywhere and park it in a…

@jpech: "Man In Side! Help!"

About dealing with speed:

@13thfloorelevator: It's owned by something called the Landmark Trust, and you can rent it to stay in for vacations. Now all you need is to find a Jensen...

@13thfloorelevator: It's owned by something called the Landmark Trust, and you can rent it to stay in for vacations. Now all you need is to find a Jensen...

@Ryan Grow: SUVs- yes. Minivans- maybe, but minivans are never pulled over anyway. Hybrids- Why would you restrict an LS600h but not a (slower) LS460? Even with the more "pedestrian" hybrids, a Prius will cruise at 90-100 all day.

British? check

@pyroholtz: No, usually turbines have some serious problems. Hooking them up to a generator, however, solves these...

@luisthebeast, professional engineer: No, they're not- Leviticus 11:4.

@alan505: Is there actually a law saying that your car has to be labelled with the make and model out of the factory?

@Nathan Weil: How about synchromesh and electric starters? I'd much rather pump the brakes than double-declutch or have to handcrank my car to start it...

Great-great-grandma says hi!

@Anjow: They do. All this means is that they will now consider Hyundai (as well as Ford, Vauxhall, BMW, Skoda, Volvo, Land Rover and Jaguar, to name some I've seen) when choosing cars.

@Motor_Yakuza: They decided that in a small country where a specialised pursuit car can always get to the scene quickly it would be better to always leave high-speed pursuits to officers who spend most of their time training for them than have some donut-munching beat cop using his half-remembered police driver…