This is not true, according to the speed awareness course I went on.
Cameras/traps are highlighted "for your benefit" because the goal is "safety, not revenue".
Take from that what you will.
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This is not true, according to the speed awareness course I went on.
Cameras/traps are highlighted "for your benefit" because the goal is "safety, not revenue".
Take from that what you will.
Which means when they start hiding and disguising them that these are for £revenue, not safety" then?
what makes them people more important than the law?
and increasing the speed limit is a different argument and when they do increase it people will still go faster with the same argument of the limit being too slow.
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How many accidents do they have on the autobarn in germany with no speed limit. Obviously is speed kills there will be millions on crashes there everyday?
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Assuming of course that is what is going on which isn't clear.
For those moaning about hidden speed cameras, as already stated, just DON'T SPEED.
Part of the issue here is the sheer number of people who speed by default. THEY are basically funding the speed cameras.
If people drove within the speed limit for 95% of the time, you'd soon see them removed as the money to pay for them would evaporate.
Let me say this again, by speeding, YOU ARE FUNDING THE CAMERAS!
Annoys the crap out of me as the speeding plebs have meant that it's now virtually impossible to have the odd bit of fun.
Part of the issue here is the sheer number of people who speed by default. THEY are basically funding the speed cameras.
If people drove within the speed limit for 95% of the time, you'd soon see them removed as the money to pay for them would evaporate.
Let me say this again, by speeding, YOU ARE FUNDING THE CAMERAS!
Annoys the crap out of me as the speeding plebs have meant that it's now virtually impossible to have the odd bit of fun.
Well, TBH, I've gone 15 years without a single ticket and since moving to Wales, I've been;
1). SP30 Ban for 7 days and a £600 quid fine (96 in a 60 on motorbike in middle of no where on a Sunday morning)
2). SP30 ban, 58 in a 50 while overtaking a dangerous 90+ year old man who kept slamming on breaks to 15mph on a duel carriage way, I passed him and passed unmarked police car as well
3). 45 in a 40...
Don't speed is my view but we all do it and have to accept this is the law, tough.
1). SP30 Ban for 7 days and a £600 quid fine (96 in a 60 on motorbike in middle of no where on a Sunday morning)
2). SP30 ban, 58 in a 50 while overtaking a dangerous 90+ year old man who kept slamming on breaks to 15mph on a duel carriage way, I passed him and passed unmarked police car as well
3). 45 in a 40...
Don't speed is my view but we all do it and have to accept this is the law, tough.
A rare specimen here people. Someone who has never once in their life been above the speed limit. Never. Not a single time. We could all live by this example.
Or perhaps they are talking rubbish. One of the two.
A lot of the speed limits are based on stopping distance. Those stopping distances were calculated a long time ago in cars whose braking systems were much inferior by today's standards. I have reasonably large car which stops on a ****ing penny.
The throttled speed limits are also compounded by the comfort of modern vehicles. The comfier you are the slower you feel you're going. I can get to 100 without noticing it sometimes.
The throttled speed limits are also compounded by the comfort of modern vehicles. The comfier you are the slower you feel you're going. I can get to 100 without noticing it sometimes.
What is an "odd bit of fun" then?
This assumes that everyone has a modern, well maintained car. The stoppong distance on a 12 year old modeo, which will fail it's MOT next month because the breakpads need replacing, is a lot further than a Porsche with carbon ceramic breaks.
When it comes to safety, lowest common denominator is the only sensible option.
As others have said, if you're looking to 'have fun' on your drive do it somewhere else. Public highways are for getting from A to B, not for your entertainment.
I thought the same thing. If you add up all the things that are, in reality, symptoms of driving too fast it's 54% by my calculation.
The stopping distances on the highway code caters for a Ford Anglia, we've moved on, yes the roads aren't for pleasure but that doesn't mean people can't make decent progress. All you seem to get is speed limits dropped for no good reason (there's a 3 lane stretch of the A406 that's 30, yes a 30 limit on what is effectively a bit of motorway) and then sneaky tactics to extort money out of the motorist.
You can crash because of slippery conditions while doing 20 in a 40 - is getting people to drive under the limit going to stop that? No. You can be careless/reckless/in a hurry and lose control under the limit too. Instead of education for people so they know how to drive for the conditions, detect slippery surfaces (black ice for example) and penalise people that don't pay attention or drive like knobs - as long as you don't go over the limit that all seems to be fine? It's 2015 and people can drive on a motorway, on their own, without having to pass a test on it. It's bloody stupid. But again, if they stick to the limit it's all good? That's my problem - but that requires some actual police work, not sitting in a tractor/pointing a camera at someone.
You can crash because of slippery conditions while doing 20 in a 40 - is getting people to drive under the limit going to stop that? No. You can be careless/reckless/in a hurry and lose control under the limit too. Instead of education for people so they know how to drive for the conditions, detect slippery surfaces (black ice for example) and penalise people that don't pay attention or drive like knobs - as long as you don't go over the limit that all seems to be fine? It's 2015 and people can drive on a motorway, on their own, without having to pass a test on it. It's bloody stupid. But again, if they stick to the limit it's all good? That's my problem - but that requires some actual police work, not sitting in a tractor/pointing a camera at someone.
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British motorways are too crowded to raise the speed limit, imo.
There's a difference between infrastructure that supports it and infrastructure that doesn't though isn't there? I'm struggling to find a post I made a while ago with EU statistics on the density of traffic on motorways, but the UK had pretty much the highest in Europe.
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its in the national paper today already
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Don't like it?
Then vote for a government that lets them police things properly, instead of driving everything to meet financial and statistical targets.
Do the same for the NHS, while you're at it, yeh...?