A Speeding question (of sorts)

SmallTown said:
Because they are 2 entirely different situations.

It's like me asking: how can take a stance on Holidays in Spain, and not take the same stance on having fish and chips.
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I went to Spain in 1984. I saw a chef catch a fish using only his fists and his head. It was brutal.
I have never eaten fish since.
However, I have been back to Spain on two more occasions.
 
Andy_W said:
I've installed some infrastructure for the average speed SPECS and from what I remember, I think the cameras are paired, so if there were camera's A,B,C,D,E,F then you could get checked A>B, C>D, and E>F but not to B>C, D>E, but don't quote me on that.

I also appreciate this is zero help mind as you will have no idea which cameras are paired together.

You can put cruise on around 53-54mph, that way you deffo won't go over and you will be able to overtake those that try and manually hover at 50 on this inside lane without cruise (but just end up varying speed up and down). 55 or higher may be risky in some places which don't allow 10%.

I've found that putting cruise on at 50 will just end up in you having to cancel it, as you gradually catch up others in inside lane but don't have enough to be fast enough for outside lanes to outdo most overtakers, and you feel like you're just holding people up.

I prefer the limiter though, rather than cruise, just stick the limit on 54 and then forget about it.
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So if I was to go through A-F at 60 I would have committed 3 speeding offences ??
 
Chris_Boro said:
It's to catch people who think they can crawl at 40 most of the way then blast through the end.
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It's the opposite really. The average speed cameras stop people motoring at 80mph for most of the journey then slowing down only for the cameras. Their average speed would be something like 79.9mph.
 
The_Big_Woodowski said:
So if I was to go through A-F at 60 I would have committed 3 speeding offences ??
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Maybe, if you slowed down between each paired camera, so you would need to do 60mph at A>B, C>D, E-F and 35mph at B>C and D>E, to get you back to the 50mph average.

But if you just stuck at 60 all the way through then as they would have a time stamp on A and F it would probably just go down as one big bout of "speeding" if someone actually looked at it when the ticket is raised (which is probably automated).

But either way, it's likely that it could get flagged as three separate offences, yet they only ticket the worst one. Hard to know in that case.
 
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GazC_MFC said:
Okay, so you can be morally superior on masks, but you can let your morals slide for speed limits.
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Speed limits are there for a reason I think we both agree on Gaz.

I'm lucky that I've got cruise control on my Skoda. I use it nearly all the time.

My recent trip to Skegness I set it to 65mph and only had to put my foot down once or twice to overtake I slower caravan or Sunday afternoon driver.

On the way back we were met with average speed cameras (50 mph limit) so I just set it to 40mph and those who were in a rush could easily pass me by.
 
this may give some useful Info on the subject(more about speed limit tolerance than about the cameras though)
 
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Chris_Boro said:
Overreporting of speedometers is not a absolute percentage and will very depending on manufacturer based on their tests on how tyre wear increases inaccurate speed measurements to ensure that they don't underreport speed which is a law.

Basically you are making an assumption at your own speed, something you cannot know.

What you do know is if your car is saying 50, you will not be going over but that definitely does not mean you are going at 45 either.
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I didn’t think it would mean that
 
The_Big_Woodowski said:
So if I was to go through A-F at 60 I would have committed 3 speeding offences ??
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No I don't think you have it is a single offence detected multiple times. Like shoplifting a packet of biscuits and some tea bags. One offence or going through the 12 items or less checkout with 24 eggs.
 
Andy_W said:
Maybe, if you slowed down between each paired camera, so you would need to do 60mph at A>B, C>D, E-F and 35mph at B>C and D>E, to get you back to the 50mph average.

But if you just stuck at 60 all the way through then as they would have a time stamp on A and F it would probably just go down as one big bout of "speeding" if someone actually looked at it when the ticket is raised (which is probably automated).

But either way, it's likely that it could get flagged as three separate offences, yet they only ticket the worst one. Hard to know in that case.
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They can only ticket the worse one Andy. The law states that "generally" whatever that means, if multiple speeding offences are committed in a single journey only the most severe can incur penalty points. They can, of course, give much larger fines where there are multiple offences.

If the offences happen within a few minutes or is counted as a single incident with 1 fine and one set of points.
 
Rofesleg said:
It's the opposite really. The average speed cameras stop people motoring at 80mph for most of the journey then slowing down only for the cameras. Their average speed would be something like 79.9mph.
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It was a response to the OP's scenario, not average speed cameras in general.
 
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