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VSS said:
Well if you were travelling at 80mph then you deserve to be caught.
Why they would fire at 80, when the limit is 70, is beyond me though. Anything over 70 should trigger the camera.
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Because of calibration of speedos. There is a variation that has to be allowed for. Speedos are generally out by between 5 and 10%, usually on the lower side, but, they have to make the allowance upwards as well.
It is that someone in authority has to decide at what point the trigger is.
 
The Singing Stalker said:
Because of calibration of speedos. There is a variation that has to be allowed for. Speedos are generally out by between 5 and 10%, usually on the lower side, but, they have to make the allowance upwards as well.
It is that someone in authority has to decide at what point the trigger is.
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I've seen it quoted generally that they are set at 10% of speed limit + 2mph.
 
VSS said:
Well if you were travelling at 80mph then you deserve to be caught.
Why they would fire at 80, when the limit is 70, is beyond me though. Anything over 70 should trigger the camera.
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I know, I know!
Having driven up and down that road for decades without getting pinged once, they clearly are looking to now enforce more strictly. Most drivers on our motorways drive north of 70, many north of 80, so it’s not uncommon, but it is my error.

As I happens, I thought I was under 80, but hey ho!
All being well I will get offered the course as I have never had points.
 
The Singing Stalker said:
Because of calibration of speedos. There is a variation that has to be allowed for. Speedos are generally out by between 5 and 10%, usually on the lower side, but, they have to make the allowance upwards as well.
It is that someone in authority has to decide at what point the trigger is.
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The amended Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 permits the use of speedometers that meet either the requirements of EC Council Directive 75/443 (as amended by Directive 97/39) or UNECE Regulation 39.[17]
The Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001[18] permits single vehicles to be approved. As with the UNECE regulation and the EC Directives, the speedometer must never show an indicated speed less than the actual speed. However, it differs slightly from them in specifying that for all actual speeds between 25 mph and 70 mph (or the vehicles' maximum speed if it is lower than this), the indicated speed must not exceed 110% of the actual speed, plus 6.25 mph.
For example, if the vehicle is actually traveling at 50 mph, the speedometer must not show more than 61.25 mph or less than 50 mph.”
 
My car spedo reads 10% over when compared to Google maps and road side speed signs. Truck speedo is correct.
On motorways I set my cruise control to the prevailing limit and a god send in lengthy road works with average speed cameras as its so easy to forget in lengthy stretches.
Daily camera vans on bridges on M5 between St Michael's Wood and Gloucester.
Yesterday one sitting above M5 on Tiverton junction.
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Also to add the variable speed cameras on M4 and M5 around Bristol are all hot.
In particular the ones on the M4 between the M32 junnction and Almondsbury.
I shoot ground within sight of these and it's flashes all night long.
 D
 
VSS said:
Well if you were travelling at 80mph then you deserve to be caught.
Why they would fire at 80, when the limit is 70, is beyond me though. Anything over 70 should trigger the camera.
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Rather like, as you have admitted to not worrying to much about trailer weight, people towing over the weight limit should feel the full force of the law too?

David.
 
Kalahari said:
Rather like, as you have admitted to not worrying to much about trailer weight, people towing over the weight limit should feel the full force of the law too?

David.
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Oh, absolutely!
No doubt I'll cop it one day.
But people exceeding speed limits is just one of my personal little pet hates. I'm sure we all have them.
 
VSS said:
Oh, absolutely!
No doubt I'll cop it one day.
But people exceeding speed limits is just one of my personal little pet hates. I'm sure we all have them.
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Hang on a minute? Is that the sound of someone standing in a glass house chucking rocks?

Driving with an overloaded trailer is way more dangerous than being a few mph over the limit.
Get into a weave, have a blow out, have to brake suddenly and it all goes wrong and, as you are knowingly overloaded, you are technically uninsured!

Ok, I fractured the speed limit and will take my punishment, but driving overloaded is deadly
 
TringSaint said:
Hang on a minute? Is that the sound of someone standing in a glass house chucking rocks?

Driving with an overloaded trailer is way more dangerous than being a few mph over the limit.
Get into a weave, have a blow out, have to brake suddenly and it all goes wrong and, as you are knowingly overloaded, you are technically uninsured!

Ok, I fractured the speed limit and will take my punishment, but driving overloaded is deadly
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Yes, you can definitely hear breaking glass.
 
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