Average speed cameras - an insight

naefeart said:
Would they calculate my average speed between each camera or between the first and last?
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It would need to be the former, some long stretches of average speed checks span multiple junctions. I would imagine you'd still get a ticket if you averaged 56mph through cameras 1 and 2, but then averaged 44mph through cameras 2 and 3 - meaning between 1 and 3 your average speed was actually 50mph, but you were still over the average (speeding) between 1 and 2.

lordrobs said:
I always wondered about the people that brake for average speed cameras then speed up again. Perhaps this is what they all think too!
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If i've been caught in traffic, and then there's an emptier stretch of road before a camera, i'm normally slightly over 50 so i brake to slow down a little. Because of the earlier traffic i know my average speed between two sets of cameras will be well under 50, but i suspect the camera will still take a live speed reading. I.e. just because my average between 2 cameras is say 40mph, doesn't mean going through that camera at 60 won't result in a speeding ticket.
 
grudas said:
Only real reason I hate average speed cameras these days is because I don't have cruise lol. Was much easier setting that up for the zone. Worst average zone that's not too far from me is 20mph. It's actually quite funny seeing everyone drive that slow on a decent road.
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20 has got to be quite hard to stick to. They've just put up a 40 average check at the start of the M5 (J1-3 iirc). Going north yesterday i was stuck in traffic, but then when an empty stretch opened up i completely forgotten it was 40, so was going a few mph over when Waze is beeping at me to say 40 is the limit.
 
I love the front facing average speed cameras on the m60. No front number plate means no problem :D

Why do they use front facing when, to knowledge, it's the same camera they use for read facing?
 
20 zones are annoying because it's too low to set the cruise and the sligtest dab of pressure and you're doing 25-30.
 
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Lopéz said:
I'm just pointing out the facts. ChrisD said that it was pointless to speed on the motorway because you won't get there any faster. Simple mathematics will tell you this isn't true.

You can argue about how much faster you'll arrive, and whether the juice is worth the squeeze - but you'll almost certainly arrive at your destination faster.
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I didn't say pointless, I just said I don't see much point. I do a 75 mile drive to work and the difference between sitting at 75 and 85 seems to be around five minutes door to door.
 
To be honest I tend to just go with the speed everyone else is doing, that varies all the way from nothing to about 85.. I don't care for being the one that's getting hurtled past but I'm very rarely the one hassling to get past someone either.

I'm also one of those nutcases that is prepared to use the "slow" lane if there's nothing else on the road.

Frankly I wish the police would spend more time enforcing the lane hogging rules than enforcing (especially on the motorway) speed limits that were set before airbags, ABS, stability control and brakes that weren't made out of cheese.

But hey.. common sense.. who needs that.
 
matt100 said:
To be honest I tend to just go with the speed everyone else is doing, that varies all the way from nothing to about 85.. I don't care for being the one that's getting hurtled past but I'm very rarely the one hassling to get past someone either.

I'm also one of those nutcases that is prepared to use the "slow" lane if there's nothing else on the road.

Frankly I wish the police would spend more time enforcing the lane hogging rules than enforcing (especially on the motorway) speed limits that were set before airbags, ABS, stability control and brakes that weren't made out of cheese.

But hey.. common sense.. who needs that.
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Easy money for them. Cost nothing once cameras are up and I bet most pay for them selves inside a year.
 
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