Not sure if I will get a speeding ticket

Snakes_Belly

Have you received anything yet?  You may just get a letter. I was asked if I wanted to volunteer to check car speeds with one of those hand held speed checkers. There were no fines involved but just a letter.   

Snakes_Belly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43841859
I was asked if I wanted to volunteer for something like the above. So if it was community policing you will just get a letter.

renegadefm

Snakes_Belly said:

Have you received anything yet?  You may just get a letter. I was asked if I wanted to volunteer to check car speeds with one of those hand held speed checkers. There were no fines involved but just a letter.   

Thanks for that. I haven't recieved anything yet because it was only Friday just gone that I passed by the speed trap. 
What has intrigued me is my gps reading changed from 30 to 40 just before I approached the speed trap, but I been back there since and I cant see the signage change from 30 to 40, so to me its unclear why the gps changed, because it shouldn't have.
But you can see my theory of how it could lead a new driver into a false sense of security if they get too used to using these devices instead of following the signs it will catch out a lot of basically innocent motorists. 
I call them innocent because if your asked to use a sat nav for your test, new drivers will assume the sat navs are law, when they are not.  My partner had to have a certain spec Tom Tom for her practical test to show she can read and understand them while driving.  I was against it at the time because at the end of the day its added expense to me, and of course it was me who had to buy one for her, but her instructor said thats what we got to do, so I had to except it. 
So I dont know if that breeds a load of sat nav users who rely too much on them,  but in my honest opinion, if people are being prosecuted for speed when all they are doing is trusting their sat nav, which has been forced on them since day one, surely either the law needs to catch up, or the sat navs need to become what is written in stone. 
I know currently signage is the final say,  but if sat navs are now the normal guidance something needs to change. 
That or take the speed function away from sat navs altogether. Because currently the whole system is not fair on motorists at all. 

DoaM

The reason (IMHO) the use of satnavs was brought into the testing regime was so people could show that they are able to use proper observation and not be distracted by what a satnav tells them. By your own account you've failed the (real life) observation test by trusting your satnav rather than your eyes.

I use Google maps and it regularly gets things wrong / slightly out of place - particularly on transitions from dual to single carriageways (and vice-versa), suggesting that a 70 limit is in place when it is clear that the single carriageway has started so a 60 limit applies.

renegadefm

DoaM said:

The reason (IMHO) the use of satnavs was brought into the testing regime was so people could show that they are able to use proper observation and not be distracted by what a satnav tells them. By your own account you've failed the (real life) observation test by trusting your satnav rather than your eyes.

I use Google maps and it regularly gets things wrong / slightly out of place - particularly on transitions from dual to single carriageways (and vice-versa), suggesting that a 70 limit is in place when it is clear that the single carriageway has started so a 60 limit applies.

I understand I failed, but if new motorists are made to think sat navs are the norm, expect the unexpected isnt it? 

renegadefm

DoaM said:

The reason (IMHO) the use of satnavs was brought into the testing regime was so people could show that they are able to use proper observation and not be distracted by what a satnav tells them. By your own account you've failed the (real life) observation test by trusting your satnav rather than your eyes.

I use Google maps and it regularly gets things wrong / slightly out of place - particularly on transitions from dual to single carriageways (and vice-versa), suggesting that a 70 limit is in place when it is clear that the single carriageway has started so a 60 limit applies.

The thing is aswell, if google maps and sat navs are regularly getting things wrong, surely they are unsuitable to use in a test, and after the test. Surely its better advice to just use good old fashioned highway code. 

KeithP

Again, what has this got to do with parking?

Scrapit

KeithP said:

Again, what has this got to do with parking?

KeithP said:

Again, what has this got to do with parking?

The op is worried about receiving a fine. As per the name of the forum they have posted here. And they are getting advice. System works.

renegadefm

Scrapit said:

KeithP said:

Again, what has this got to do with parking?

KeithP said:

Again, what has this got to do with parking?

The op is worried about receiving a fine. As per the name of the forum they have posted here. And they are getting advice. System works.

Yeah it works because I found out a csr speedo reads roughly 3 mph higher. So I was probably only doing 33 in a 30 zone. So a slight relief. 
I'm still dreading the post though. Ours dont normally arrive until 2pm ish

Snakes_Belly

I have never received a speeding ticket and like you I thought that I had slightly exceeded the speed limit whilst driving past a speed camera. This was on a stretch of A road where the speed limit changes about six times in a couple of miles 40,30,40,50,40,30.  Nothing came of it.