handy wrote:
I don't claim to be an any better driver than anyone else, nor do I claim never to go over the speed limit.
I have a speed camera warning device in my car, and keep the locations updated, I can't think of the last time I was beeped for being over the limit near a speed camera.
Eh? They beep per database even when startionary and if engine and gadget "on" - they beep. Have you got yours on "mute"
I set mine to overspeed bleep .. it does bleep though when I move from 30 mph to 40 mph and I have to remember to reset for a motorway drive.
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I tend to drive slightly under the limit - bearing in mind that probably 90% of my miles are on motorway or NSL DC. I do not see the limit as a target, so if, as and when I check my speedo if I am as much as indicated 10% below the posted limit I do not worry about it. I certainly wouldn't speed up because of the number on the speedo!
Ah - so you are not on the roads where these forests are .. and since when can you get to drive at 70 mph in peak time on any motorway
Only Gatsos you may find on m/way are the tempos and you usually crawl through road works in daytime anyway. Most of those I hear of and read of on these fora - pinged at night when deserted and they thought the "limit did not apply then"
But we do know of one person who drove along a Blackpoo! road at 34 -35 mph - and ended up with 6 points. Would have been 9 points but he saved one endorsement through the Speed Course
Was in 2003 Blackpoo! press.
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At an indicated 70mph in my car the actual speed is 64mph. If I drove at an actual (sat nav) speed of 75mph (so within the 10% + 2 level) I would have around 15% less time to react to any given hazard preseting itself to me. For the amount of time a free travelling speed of exceeding 70mph is available on the roads I drive on, the extra few seconds in a journey are worth it for that alone. I am giving myself a gift in reducing the 99.999% accuracy target!
I wouldn't even claim that I will never get a speeding fine, as posted above the number of cameras and the miles that I travel each year mean that I couldn't in all honesty make that claim, but I think I have put enough thought into my driving, and given myself a safety margin, to reduce that likelihood.
You only need to miss a tempo lolly and you could still fall fouls of SPECs.
I use the useful gadget properly ..and drive per COAST anyway
But view all vans on bridges with suspicion.. but tune into local radion and prat sites for data on van timetables
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The main issue for me, though, as alluded to earlier, is that limits should be appropriate and signed properly. If all of the newspaper whining and campaigning that went into whinging about speed cameras was diverted into getting speed limits correct and giving the motorist the right to input into the speed limit setting process, we may now have 80 or even 90 limits on our safest roads (motorways) and have a right to appeal against the "formerly safe at 60, now only 30" roads?
Of course that only works if the speed cameras are 100% accurate and trustworthy ... I'm still not convinced that is true (although I do not subscribe to a view that says most are inaccurate ).
Most are not placed where they should be.
I would bet that Cooperman's candidate fell foul of SPECS and mobiles though
Blimey - that the time? I must admit this thread took a lot of read throughs and lots of Ovaltine!
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