sticking to the speed limit with SAT NAV

amcluesent

A satnav won't have the speed right for every road.

Especially as to keep the fines rolling in, the scamera partnerships love doing 60-40-60 tricks with the hidden scamera in the 40mph section.

Face facts, scameras are a tax-raising con and they'll just get sneakier in how the use them to maintain the same tax levels on the motorist.

Scameras!

jmc160

amcluesent wrote: »

A satnav won't have the speed right for every road.

Especially as to keep the fines rolling in, the scamera partnerships love doing 60-40-60 tricks with the hidden scamera in the 40mph section.

Face facts, scameras are a tax-raising con and they'll just get sneakier in how the use them to maintain the same tax levels on the motorist.

Scameras!

Careful what you say man! Big Brother is watching! :cool:

I agree it's not right for every road, but it is a handy little feature for those times when your foot does get a little heavy after 10 hours on the road.

Inactive

It seems to me that many of you would be well advised to concentrate more on the road than your little toy screens.:rolleyes:

Garetha

The emotive road safety ad says it all

if you hit me at 30 mph theres a 80 chance i'll live, if you hit me at 40 mph theres a 80% chance i'll die

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FS5f73EHRhA&feature=related

Just ask anyone who's lost a child to a speeding driver

If in doubt slow down

Yes! - I've got 3 points for 40 in a 30 zone and I was annoyed at the time

tomstickland

All well and good, but what about situations where a child could not appear in the time it would take you to slow down from 40 to 20mph? So, rather than narrow residential streets with cars parked on the sides (loads of opportunities), think of wide industrial areas, maybe even with a dual carriageway and a fence down the middle.

I consider three components in sequence:
1) probability of situation arising
2) ability to avoid collision
3) Damage caused by impact

Campaigns like that above consider only item 3), as do virtually all speed campaigns, though they do try to suggest that 1) is proportional too.

I think it's the dumbed down approach of it that irks me so much.

I monitor my speed through various areas, and found that I was travelling at 25indicated in my local estate when there were parked cars and 30 indicated when the road was clear.

isofa

Tom makes a great set of points, speed, although a factor (and I'm not condoning speeding, especially in built-up areas), isn't the most important, it's lack of attention and awareness.

Someone driving 2 inches from the back of another car at 40 mph, is more dangerous and much more likely to have an accident than someone very alert travelling at 80mph on the motorway with plenty of space all around them. (Yes I know 70 is the limit, although one can barely do this in the slow lane of most motorways in the UK, with people flying past you.)

I'd rather swap all speed, I mean "safety"(!), cameras for "distance between car" cameras on motorways.

Poor driving skills, lack of attention and concentration cause accidents. Speed can make the result of an accident worse, but it's not the key factor.

Avoriaz

tight-git wrote: »

.. - i may even be on the phone , or arguing with the wife , or had my eye on something else -

Please let me know when and where you are driving so I can keep well clear of the area.

CHR15

I wonder what the moral crusaders are going to be like when the Government increase Motorway speed limits to 80mph.

Will they still be shouting at all the nutters going over 70mph?

Speed limits, although legal boundaries, can never be an exact science.

60mph in rush hour motorway traffic in the pouring rain is MUCH worse than 90mph on a clear motorway with no traffic about.

I don't think any of these crusaders who call all speeders idiots drive at all, certainly not on motorways where at 70mph you will be overtaken by !!!!! shed pulling caravanners and truckers.

IRT1959

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Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I wouldn't suggest relying on a sat nav to give you the right speed limits anyhow ... I tested our works Tomtom One on a journey home and it got it wrong twice:-

First time, I'm going along main road (60mph), there's a side turn into a village (30mph down the side turn) - the Tomtom tried to tell me that the main road also had the reduced speed limit.

Second time, going through a different village - previously a 40mph to 30mph zone but 6 months ago this was changed to 30mph throughout and extended at each end - the Tomtom had the old boundaries and limits.

But to answer your question, the Tomtom One that I was testing had an audible "bing" for exceeding speed limits. Not that I was relying on it, nor would I suggest that anybody else does. Simply answering your question.

bicycle_repair_man_2

espresso wrote: »

Surely yours is the most stupid post, as anyone who is prepared to risk their licence on the strength of a gadget, deserves to lose it.

:rolleyes:

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