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| Thread ID: 135704 | 2013-12-03 01:03:00 | In light of the 4kmh tolerance for speeding... | tingle (6539) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1361533 | 2013-12-04 00:38:00 | Don't forget, it's not so much how fast you're going, but more how fast the cops speedo reckons you're going. You can fine tune all the equipment you like, but good luck getting away with adjusting theirs |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1361534 | 2013-12-04 01:01:00 | do you also write the fine print on legal documents :lol: Any one seeing my writing would not have "fine print" leap to the forefront of his conclusions. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1361535 | 2013-12-04 02:29:00 | Indeed . To quote Jeremy Clarkson: Speed never killed anyone . Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you . To 'suddenly' become stationary is not a problem, what is a problem is the definition of 'suddenly', and the faster you drive, the more 'suddenly' you stop . Take my word for it, suddenly becoming stationary from 100km/hr is very unpleasant indeed, and the pain lingers on for more years that you would like to contemplate . Think of it as hitting a stationary object at around 180-200km/hour . I have also twice had people suddenly become stationary behind me (but from modest speeds) when I was already motionless, so their pain was financial, not physical, but they were still driving too close and too fast . Reduced tolerance over Xmas and the New Year will save lives and spare some families from always remembering Christmas as the time their loved one was taken away from them by somebody who wanted to get somewhere else just a few minutes sooner . Mrs T and I went to the Coromandel on the weekend, and on the most notorious stretch of road, with a 90km/hr limit, double yellow no-passing lines and a blind bend, we were passed at warp nine by some utter idiot who would have been extruded mincemeat if there had been another vehicle coming . If he/she had crashed, I'd have gone to the aid of his/her victim and left the idiot to his/her fate, irrespective of age or gender . Billy |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1361536 | 2013-12-04 03:02:00 | I have also twice had people suddenly become stationary behind me (but from modest speeds) when I was already motionless, so their pain was financial, not physical, but they were still driving too close and too fast. That's happened to me as well, but luckily my car (being Japanese) was able to be fixed with a heat gun and a hammer so I didn't have any financial pain. :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1361537 | 2013-12-04 03:07:00 | Reduced tolerance over Xmas and the New Year will save lives and spare some families from always remembering Christmas as the time their loved one was taken away from them by somebody who wanted to get somewhere else just a few minutes sooner . I agree with the sentiment, not with the method Perhaps the holiday roads will be so clogged with traffic, drivers wont even be able to do 90k ? ;) No one has yet told us how, or given any REAL proof that upping the tolerance to 4K will make any difference . It may even make things worse, with drivers getting impatient with the 95km/h drivers & risking overtaking when they shouldnt . There will be alot of that (my speculation) 4k wont make any real difference in a crash idiots will not be driving to the conditions regardless, how will the 4k help there ? how will the 4k help when idiots pass around a blind corner or pass over a crest of a hill, it wont help with crashes from tired or drunk drivers It wont stop any crashes from txting drivers How many crashes were actually caused by driving at 110km/h instead of 100km/h Ive gone from 50k to reverse, guy coming the other way blacked out & drove into my car . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1361538 | 2013-12-04 03:44:00 | Ignorant clowns have been using about 10 kph tolerance on 100kph to speed on the open road, I am glad the feld polezei have dropped the tolerance. If you are worried about getting pinged for speeding check your speedo against a GPS. Remember the faster the speed the bigger the mess when crashing simple physics not rocket science. What I do is always travel in fastlane of the motorway and travel at about 102-103 kph if anyone comes up in the left lane to go around me I speed up and box them. Sometimes they go to furthest left lane and get around me win some lose some. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1361539 | 2013-12-04 04:49:00 | That's pretty daring stuff in a Ford prefect, Prefect. Didn't think they went that fast. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1361540 | 2013-12-04 05:22:00 | That's pretty daring stuff in a Ford prefect, Prefect. Didn't think they went that fast. It does if it's hitched to a tow truck |
plod (107) | ||
| 1361541 | 2013-12-04 20:02:00 | That's pretty daring stuff in a Ford prefect, Prefect. Didn't think they went that fast. Its highly tuned and the speedo is in mph read as kph :D |
beama (111) | ||
| 1361542 | 2013-12-04 20:55:00 | Is that at 50k ?? at 100k the difference may well be greater. Problem is that we dont know the margin of error on GPS & Roadside speed monitors. Changed you car tyres in the last 10 years?? That may very well have a big impact on speedo errors Solution : driver everywhere at 40K (& 90k) & be well withing the limit . Who comes up with these rules? 55km/h & 105km/h ARE NOT unsafe speeds . If these speeds were as bad as they seem to be implying, we all would be crashing every other week. I never read the original headline properly... Yup we are going to be pinged for driving faster than 54kph in town over the summer because as we all know that over the last 40-60 years or so, sooo many accidents have happened in suburban 50kph areas in the middle of summer when everybody has left town... Yeah Right! Would make for a great Tui advert. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
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