K9F wrote:

A quick search reveals that unless you are disabled and obtain it under the mobility scheme the 8 ball wheel spinner is in fact on the wrong side of legality. Apologies if you are registered and it is legit, with half the wheel missing you need the spinner as without it it would be difficult.

blackwolf wrote:

Any references to this?

Only from my initial search first time round for the UK......

If you wish to be sure pick up the phone and call one of the motability links contained therein, better still the Department for Transport themselves. There is some amusing reading in the links. They used to be called 'suicide, brodie or drift' knobs.



https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/inde...753AATykPR

Even in some of the United States you need to be registered disabled apparently.

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/inde...337AAraXMl If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!

Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!!

K9F wrote:

Some of the inter-wibble centres on the the belief that "it is illegal to drive with only one hand on the wheel", whcih it isn't, provided that you have "full control" of the vehicle. Plod tends to maintain that having one hand on the wheel must by definition mean that you cannot be in "full control" since you have another, uncommitted, hand, therefore having only one hand on the wheel must indicate a lower level of control than two and hence not "full" control. This argument I feel is specious (but I don't wish to be the person who challenges it is court)!!

I have to say I have always thought the 'two handed = full control, one handed = partial control' a bit of a nonsense. I have no doubt that my one hand, on a power assisted steering wheel, has a damned site more control than the two hands of some old biddy on any type of steering wheel. Backed up by better eye site, quicker reaction times, greater coordination, etc etc all meaning that in my opinion I would be more in control than her (and so as not to be sexist, a gentleman of similar vintage)  Monsieur Le Grenadier

I've not been everywhere, but it's on my list.....

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K9F wrote:

Some of the inter-wibble centres on the the belief that "it is illegal to drive with only one hand on the wheel", whcih it isn't, provided that you have "full control" of the vehicle. Plod tends to maintain that having one hand on the wheel must by definition mean that you cannot be in "full control" since you have another, uncommitted, hand, therefore having only one hand on the wheel must indicate a lower level of control than two and hence not "full" control. This argument I feel is specious (but I don't wish to be the person who challenges it is court)!