Traffic Cameras or Stealth Tax

dougk_2

NigeWick wrote:

Are you saying that you are incapable of spotting different limit signs and complying with them?

Nigel.

No I am saying that signs are badly placed and constantly changing limits means you are not keeping your eye on the road and what is happening, but looking for signs all the time.

If you are concentrating on what the lorry in front is doing you often do not see the sign (partly because your outlook is blocked by the lorry). Alsohas a previous poster said a lorry (or van or other large vehicle) parked by the sign can block it totally.

I would like to see repater signs at regulatory set distance - say every 200 yards to remind you of the spoeed limit.

The constant slowing down speading up is also a) not enviromentally friendly and b) increases the risk that the people behingd you miss the change and run into you!

Are you saying you never miss a speed sign? If you say no - how do you know?

NigeWick

dougk wrote:

If you say no - how do you know?

Good observations. The average driver just doesn't look properly or concentrate on their driving. As to repeaters, if there are none, you're in a 30 limit. With vehicles parked and blocking a sign, there are signs on the other side of the road too. Drivers will say "I don't know the road." Surely that should mean taking even more care to observe signs, road conditions, traffic etc?

Don't get me wrong, I have received training far above the average and still do not believe that i am a "good" driver. I've sat with a few, and the difference between a truly good driver and even a well trained one is remarkable.

Nigel.

Savvy_Sue

NigeWick wrote:

As to repeaters, if there are none, you're in a 30 limit.

If only! there are plenty of places where there are either no repeaters, or they're a blooming long way apart, where the speed limit is 40, or 50, or national, and if you don't know the road AND you're not a perfect driver, you can see a camera and begin to wonder if you're still in that 40 mph zone or was it a 50?

Rough tip: in a 30 mph zone, stay in 3rd gear. In a 40, stay in 4th. Oh, and in a 20, stay in 2nd. Makes it MUCH easier to keep your speed within the limits.

NigeWick

Savvy_Sue wrote:

If only! there are plenty of places where there are either no repeaters, or they're a blooming long way apart, where the speed limit is 40, or 50, or national, and if you don't know the road AND you're not a perfect driver, you can see a camera and begin to wonder if you're still in that 40 mph zone or was it a 50?

If there are no repeaters, you're in a 30. If they are missing and you keep to 30, how can you be going too fast?

Nigel, far from perfect, just don't like paying fines.

ilovefreebies_2

Could try this one I've seen elsewhere on the board

http://www.ourlinks.co.uk/speed

Lets you check to see if you being flashed against the national database.

Free service

Wig

If we were really serious about wanting to stop people speeding, there would be more investment into satelite limiters, then no-one could speed and we would all get used to it very quickly.

Don't say it's not viable, because, first it is all ready a working system even with the limited funding they have available, and Second if the Government was serious and invested properly in the research and development it would be up and running in no time.

Or are we going to wait for another country to do it first so then the government will be forced to do it because people will say if they can do it why can't we?

Hereford_Wolf

This week a Policeman was found not guilty of speeding. He was doing over 80mph in a 30mph area and over 150 mph on the motorway.

I had 3 points and sixty pound fine for doing 33mph.

Makes me soooooo mad.

andy88_2

Hereford Wolf, there must be at least half a dozen threads you can repeat this late news on. Good luck

daveboy

Speeding is speeding. You were the one foolish enough to creep over the limit. No-one else. But as I expect, there are some usual people who complain about how it isn't their fault.

As this thread was started on 12th April maybe the OP has been banned by now. If he has then the roads where he lives are safer.