Stopping Distances

pka_2

Azari wrote: »

It's a limit, not a target.

That's not strictly true. I failed my test for going too slowly (30 in a 40) as I hadn't spotted the sign denoting the change to 40mph, was in a built up area with street lights and no additional signs on the lamp posts so I played it safe as didn't want to fail for speeding:o. Most NSL roads (A roads with a centre line) are easily drivable at 60mph and when learning to drive I was taught that you should indeed be aiming to do about the speed limit, only slowing down for corners. Obviously a different story if it is a single track road which happens to be a NSL and also HGV's can't go at 60

bod1467

Where (and why) has single track NSL crept into the discussion? Sounds like a diversion to suit an argument.

Speaking of which - diversions. Why are they often difficult to navigate? There have been many times when I've had to follow a diversion and then the diversion signs disappear for MILES! You can be driving 20 minutes between signs, and have no idea if you're still on the right track. It's even worse when there are multiple diversions ... is that one mine? Or is it a different one?

pka_2

If I remember rightly then a diversion sign is only required when you need to turn off the road you are currently driving along. So you can easily pass many junctions before you get to the next diversion sign. Of course it doesn't help when some moron comes along and moves one of the signs and you end up completely lost . More than one diversion? Yeah you're usually screwed

Norman_Castle

Also known as the "aggressive slows", people who try to enforce their own speed limit on everyone else. !!!!!!s.

I expect most are just happy at that speed. I don't take it personally.
Drivers driving slowly because they're on the phone and driving obliviously really annoys me. They should be tazered and banned, then tazered again, twice.

chewynut

Sometime before Christmas it was foggy here. Not just a bit of fog, you could've cut it with a knife and you couldn't see a damn thing.

I'm trundling along a 30mph road at about 15mph because there isn't a straight stretch on it and I was literally following the cats eyes at some points. Along comes a bumhole, racing up at at least 45mph and revving their engine, lights on full beam behind me. They overtook me on a corner, stupid idiot.

I take immense satisfaction from the knowledge that there was a speed camera at the top of the hill he was about to fly down