Average Speed Cameras

Exactly.

Get angry at badgers.

I once hit a badger doing 60mph in a 40mph zone, it left a massive crack on my bumper, and ended up getting a shortcut to the field it intended to be in.

Speed cameras are easy, you can break the speed limit, slam on the breaks when you see a camera, then break the speed limit again.

As for average speed cameras, break the speed limit, pull over, then break the speed limit again.

Badgers, I think its an excellent government speed reduction policy, but they need to be painted yellow.

 

I'm always a bit confused why people need to drive up and down the motorway at 90mph...

Set off earlier, go slower, save money on fuel!!

Something every good Yorkshire man will endorse

 

I went through them on the A1 a couple of years ago. The limit was 50 and I got a letter through the post a couple of weeks later saying my average speed was 61 but they don't do you for speeding just warn you.

 

Come off it. Your speedo is, generally speaking, just below your windscreen, it's hardly a big task to glance downwards is it. It's certainly easier than glancing in your mirror which you should be doing every few seconds anyway so if you can manage to do that then surely glancing at your speedo is easy. Plus when you're at a speed it is fairly straight forward to keep going at the same speed without having to check every 2 milliseconds.

Average speed cameras are much much safer than normal speed cameras as once you're in them you just keep to your speed and you know you're safe.

My only safety issue with them is on motorways where you will be going along at 70mph and suddenly there is a 50mph sign and a speed camera. I believe that there should be a warning of impending speed limit changes a few hundred yards earlier to allow you to slow down safely but then that isn't strictly a complaint about the cameras, more about speed limits in general.

 

There's signs from 5 miles onwards to let u know about roadworks. More often than not that means speed camera's on a motorway.

I get people speeding but people pointlessly speeding is another thing.

The people who pointlessly speed are often the ones who then get angry and moan about it.

 

You need a car with a speed limiter fitted. A lot of cars these days have both cruise control and a speed limiter. I find the limiter more useful than cruise - as soon as I approach a camera controlled area I set the limiter and I can forget it then as I know that I can't exceed that limit, so don't need to check every few seconds. I wouldn't ever buy another car these days that didn't have one.

 

What I find amazing sometimes is that in an average speed camera area, there are generally loads of drivers who will bomb through at 70 or 80 regardless. I am sat there diligently sticking to 50 thinking "is it me who is the only one who is in the dark and they all know something I don't about the cameras not working or are they all getting tickets". I sometimes wonder.

I don't understand how people take the risk - I am convinced that there's loads of people who simply don't understand how average cameras work and think that they can just slow down for the camera like a gatso.

Or they see the sign and think "that's OK then, they aren't very good cameras, they are only average cameras so I can speed through them"

 

http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/news/traffic-travel/thousands-caught-breaking-m275-speed-limit-1-5384192

 

Average speed cameras?

You'd think all the money the police have made through speeding fines they would be able to afford "magnificent speed cameras"

 

Exactly. If you're driving along the motorway at night without a single car on the road, is it in any way unsafe to do 80 or 90?

 

If theres road works .....yes.