Why Do People Hate Stealth Speed Cameras?

Stoke

Mercdriver wrote: »

It would be very unlikely to be catching them doing 55 in a 50 since ACPO enforcement doesn't start until 57....

You know what I mean....

Weyoun

wiltsguy wrote: »

I find that drivers that drive below the speed limit are more dangerous than 'speeders' as you can see the frustration in the drivers built up behind them.

So slower drivers are dangerous because they cause frustration? I'd suggest that it's actually those drivers who allow themselves to succumb to their frustration that are the dangerous ones.

robbies_gal

peachyprice wrote: »

That has to be the most ridiculous speed limit on a stretch of road ever. I can't for the life of me see why that wide, open, straight stretch of road needs to be 50.

exactly-theres no residential or or any pedetrians its just obviously for money

Strider590

Weyoun wrote: »

So slower drivers are dangerous because they cause frustration? I'd suggest that it's actually those drivers who allow themselves to succumb to their frustration that are the dangerous ones.

That's just the excuse that incompetent drivers use to justify their lack of skill, confidence and awareness.

They also favour such one liners as "it's not a race", because they think there's no retort for that.

Often what they do is they deliberately create a situation where they cause another driver to act or behave badly, or create a situation where they try to make you feel as though you did something wrong, because this makes them feel morally superior and distracts from their obvious lack of driving skill.

For example: the idiot last week who accelerated the length of an articulated lorry to undertake me heading into a merge point as I was changing lanes and then sat their shaking his head when the inevitable happened (he got cut up).
Or in another example: people who see you pull out of a side road and then speed up behind you to "create" a situation out of nothing, as if to suggest you pulled out directly in front of them without looking.

These are "passive-aggressive" drivers, people who drive about looking to cause trouble, looking to wind people up, so they can claim a moral victory over their victim before he/she drives off in a fit of rage and ploughs through a bus stop full of school children.

motorguy

Weyoun wrote: »

So slower drivers are dangerous because they cause frustration? I'd suggest that it's actually those drivers who allow themselves to succumb to their frustration that are the dangerous ones.

They can be. People should aim to keep up with the flow of traffic and not slow other traffic down unnecessarily.

Driving along at 30mph in a 60 with a string of traffic behind you for example, is not really acceptable.

alleycat`

Couldn't this be summed up as "It's not very British".

Fair play, what o and all that.

I don't think the British psyche is suited to the idea of "stealth" anything.

It does also seem that the areas that are "targeted" seem to be soft in regards to what they are trying to deal with.

Cameras take out any human judgement calls and on occasion exceeding the speed limits can get you out of the brown stuff.

oscarward

I try and stick to speed limits but it's difficult sometime particularly when limits go up and down for no apparent reason.


I was caught last year and took the option of an awareness course which I found very helpful not least because it showed me how to work out what the speed limit was when I was unsure. A straw poll on the day showed a significant majority of people present were unsure what the speed limit was in any particular scenario.


I've been driving for 45 years now and suggest it would be helpful if people were forced to undertake refresher courses to cover what had changed since taking the test/last refresher day. e.g. every 10 years?

wiltsguy_2

Weyoun wrote: »

So slower drivers are dangerous because they cause frustration? I'd suggest that it's actually those drivers who allow themselves to succumb to their frustration that are the dangerous ones.

not at all, when you are commuting to work and you are in a long line of traffic behind a car pottering along at 35mph in a 50 or 60 mph zone it causes frustration, people want to get to their destination. It doesnt faze me as i ride a 1000cc sports motorcycle and i overtake very easily, but i see the frustration in all the other drivers trying to get past. And the fact that they are driving well below the speed limit shows a complete lack of skill and driving ability.

EdGasket

We have a lot of 20mph but no-one sticks to that and the police have said they don't routinely enforce it. If you try and stick to 20 there is soon a tailback of cars flashing lights and honking horns plus tailgaiting.

Strider590

oscarward wrote: »

I've been driving for 45 years now and suggest it would be helpful if people were forced to undertake refresher courses to cover what had changed since taking the test/last refresher day. e.g. every 10 years?

A lot of people would be against this, but if it was "do this or lose your licence", then i'd be glad to see it.

My biggest gripe on the roads bar none, is when you carry out a perfectly legal/safe manoeuvre and some self appointed plastic Policeman does their best to try and stop you.....
Like for example, when overtaking on hatch markings (or just overtaking in general) OR in situations where drivers are deliberately blocking/abusing motorcyclists for the "crime" of filtering. Basically, we need to get rid of people who drive by the "my way code" and try to enforce this on others.