Not speeding but camera flashed me once

Marvel1

Average speed camera near me on motorway 50mph, guess what I do - 50mph i don't slow down below unlike some !!!!! in front!! :mad:

They cause congestion!

Johno100

EssexExile wrote: »

Speed cameras flash for all sorts of reasons, it doesn't mean you'll get that little envelope any time soon.

Yes, I remember walking home late one night (actually early morning) not a vehicle on the road but the speed camera on my route must have flashed a couple of dozen times in the 5 or so minutes it was in my view.

Ergates

cjdavies wrote: »

Average speed camera near me on motorway 50mph, guess what I do - 50mph i don't slow down below unlike some !!!!! in front!!

Those are average speed cameras which are, obviously, different. Slowing down for the camera wouldn't even work.

Deastons

Sjohn wrote: »

I slowed down from 40 to 38 to be sure. I was not speeding at any point

Why did you slow down when you were driving within the limit? Why were you even aware of the speed camera if you don't speed?

Mercdriver

Deastons wrote: »

Why did you slow down when you were driving within the limit? Why were you even aware of the speed camera if you don't speed?

And here is why you should concentrate on more than one factor in driving. I look out for speed cameras not only to make sure I am still within the limit, but also I am aware how many drivers slow down 'just in case' so they are a potential hazard - not the cameras themselves, necessarily but drivers who slow down from an already legal speed to make sure they won't get a ticket.

The habit of slowing down for average speed cameras is the main cause of congestion on the M4 around Port Talbot. Drivers can drive up to 50 - but nearly all drive at 35.

It's good driving sense to be on the look out for cameras because there is likely to be someone stupid enough to suddenly slow down even if they are already doing a legal speed.

You don't teach driving sense with cameras, but by using eyes, brain and co-ordination.

Marvel1

Ergates wrote: »

Those are average speed cameras which are, obviously, different. Slowing down for the camera wouldn't even work.

It does, on approach to the first set, I take my foot off accelerator ready, car in front brakes - oh lovely now they are well below 50mph, I can about do 40mph.

Marvel1

Mercdriver wrote: »

The habit of slowing down for average speed cameras is the main cause of congestion on the M4 around Port Talbot. Drivers can drive up to 50 - but nearly all drive at 35.
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Even at 6am in morning and 10:15 at night when it's quiet:mad:

facade

Ergates wrote: »

Those are average speed cameras which are, obviously, different. Slowing down for the camera wouldn't even work.

Clarkson showed you how to deal with average speed cameras, you pull over after you pass the first one and wait, then you can do 185MPH (in your Maserati) upto the next one.


Gets a bit tedious when there is a chain of them, but proves a point

Jlawson118

Was there anybody else behind you or if it was two lanes, next to you?

Same happened to me last year in Manchester when on a dual carriageway and it was both a red light and speed camera that seemed like it flashed me but it caught the other cars around me instead because I never heard anything back?

If not then do you have a dashcam or anything that might prove otherwise?

Hermione_Granger

Deastons wrote: »

Why were you even aware of the speed camera if you don't speed?

Are you saying that you would go past a camera and be totally unaware of its presence unless you were speeding?