Best practice regards speed limits and best practice regards gun control are not really the same thing.
No speed cameras here in Ohio. Everyone drives like a grandad...very slowly!! Many roads in towns have 25mph limits. No speed bumps...they drive me mad. Kids can drive at 15 and a bit, but there appears to be a more compliant attitude to road signs. Even on the interstate roads 65 is the limit. When I come home to England I'm amazed by the speed of cars and vans and how close they get on motorways. Maybe police with guns is the answer!!
In Scotland a traffic cop told me just set your cruise control on 80 and you will never trigger the static cameras, and he was right. Down here I don't know.
How? I genuinley don't see it. Both are about control of a potentially lethal weapon. If you asked an average American there's a good chance they'd think our approach to gun control is ridiculous.
I currently do around 100k a year & have no points I have had my MV up to around 180, but that was on a racing circuit track day
I can't remember who, and it was possibly tongue in cheek, but I recall a radio presenter claiming they'd been travelling along the Westway in London, where there are a series of speed cameras, and they got caught by three on the same journey. They were arguing that as there's nothing to say they didn't slow down in between they should only be done once as it's only one offence as the roads covered by the same speed restrictions along its full length and they only exceeded it the one time. **** driving, poor knowledge of the highway code and a bad attitude are far bigger dangers than exceeding the speed limit.
The old bill where nowhere to be seen a few weeks ago, when some ****ing knobhead, in a Range Rover, overtook us in Sancton. Then this morning a Hull taxi driver did the the same ****ing thing. For those who don't know, there are double white lines right through the village. On both occasions it was at 06.30ish. Many's the time they are sat there with their camaras, also at a similar time, waiting to catch somebody doing as OLM said doing 34mph.
I got done by the one on Stoneferry 35 mph the night before I flew back to Qatar where driving is bad. Now I'm in Jordan and OMG your not normal if your not driving with your mobile in one hand and stuffing your face with a sarnie with the other. It seems that the only thing that needs to work on the car is the bloody horn ...... Crazy stuff !!!
Couldn't agree more OLM. You do have to wonder when somebody does that where they have escaped from. By the way, the, Range Rover driver the following morning was waiting to come out of Newbald. I assume, from that, he was local and would know the road, which, if possible , makes it even worse.
It's terrible all the way down that road, I drive between Newbald and Cave four times a day and I regularly see people overtaking on blind bends and generally driving like twats. Rather than hiding behind bushes in Cave trying to nick people doing 34mph, they should concentrate on people doing 80mph round blind bends on the wrong side of the road.
OLM, you must have more points than Chelsea at this stage. I witnessed no speed limit driving in Germany recently, I wouldn't fancy it myself. Well, not in my banger. They all have well nice motors. No points for me, but 2 or 3 parking fines!
I've said it on here before but that one at Daltry street is just shameful. They park the car on the sliproad which is a hazard in itself, and point the camera back towards town so as to catch anyone accelerating above 40 a hundred yards before it becomes a 70, which presents no danger at all. On the other side the speed limit is lowered as you go into town and approach the lights, why don't they face it that way, where speeding would actually be a problem? I think we know the answer to that. I do think anything to discourage **** driving is welcome, but like Dutch says, there's way bigger problems than someone accelerating too early.
I find it staggering the maximum speed on a motoway hasn't change since the sixties. I think the whole system needs reviewing every 10 years. Cars are improving all the time. I find it pointless in having hidden cameras. I don't see how they can stop people speeding if no one knows they are there.
It doesn't go to 70 any more does it? I'm sure last time I was up it was a 50 or 60 right past St. Andrews Quay. Anyway, if you use the link I put up in post #55, you'll know which days they are there.
Sorry, John, but that's a myth of the worse kind! Unfortunately I have more than I had on last weeks predictor! I should have been banned last August as I went from 6 to 12 in 3 days, barely over but not entitled to a course (my course attendance should grant me a honorary Doctorate like Mr Allam! back off, not serious!) so **** happens. They sympathised and could have banned me for 28 days(my preferred option) but they granted me leniency emoticon-0107-sweat) and let me drive on 12 points. I know taxi drivers on 25 and 27 points. If you can handle a short ban take it as the points disappear; my 12 lurking on the license have cost me 3 job opportunities in the last 8 months, each would have put £600 - 800 on the monthly pay cheque - but that's my fault, at the end of the sodding day! There is no correlation between the punishments and the mileage some have to do (40 - 50K/annum) for their employment; I seriously believe there should be a higher fine option up to a certain point - many police do too. The law needs looking at, but in the meantime it is the law. Late thought is that I am certainly a much faster driver than I was a right-back!
Up the speed limit to whatever you want. But only allow cars with adaptive cruise control and autonomous emergency braking systems to go above current limits. It's the future of driving ya knarr.
It's just slimy that one. Like I said you come off the flyover having to stare at your speedo as you are going downhill and your speed can soon get away from you, I would have said watching the road would be a better idea personally. There is no other reason for it to be there other than to make cash.
The 77-GHz Autocruise (Passive cruise Control) radar system made by TRW has a forward-looking range of up to 492 feet (150 meters), and operates at vehicle speeds ranging from 18.6 miles per hour (30 kph) to 111 mph (180 kph). Sorry Ernie, but that's about as much use as tits on a bull when a tad pushed! We're doing the International Craft Beer Festival (Boiler House on Quayside) on Sunday the 26th - catching the Liverpool vs. Newcastle game in one of the decent pubs first - are you going?
