Speed Camera Detectors to be Banned!

Yes, in the cabinet at the front are controls for emergency use.

Most of the time the "Train Captain" is operating the doors and giving the
signal to the train to start. If something goes wrong s/he can drive it.

 

They aren't concerned about breaking the law, they are concerned about
getting done for it.
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That is a rather definite sign: the fact that it's changed from dual to
single

I suspect you'll find that that is an urban myth. I was categorically told
(by one copper and one driving / biking instructor) that the *only*
enforceable method (in law)of indicating speeds other than NSL is by means
of a round sign with a red border, white background and black numbers. The
streetlight thing is a good guide, but no more. However, if you can quote
the relevant law to support your case (as opposed to highway code) then I
will gladly stand corrected (and my wife will be chuffed since she thinks
I'm wrong)

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Ah yes, all those foreign johnnies don't know how to drive. The British,
the British, the British are best.

Nice sideline, but irrelevant since the issue was coping with speed
limits appropriate to conditions, care to try again Mr Cyclist?

BTW, you will find that countries such as Germany which have
*appropriate* speed limits within cities have a lower KSI than we do
within cities. They also kill fewer children than we do. So your tinpot
Englander attitude doesn't really work.

 

No, it's computerised - he'll be a semi-conductor.

 

Because they are mythical beings.

 

Annoyingly, yes it does. I read something in a newspaper yesterday
whereby a driver was defending working speedcamera detectors by saying
"these detectors improve road safety, because I won't have to break
suddenly for a speed camera". The moron obviously hasn't realised, or is
ignoring the fact, that if he didn't speed in the first place, he
wouldn't have to break. People like that should only be allowed to drive
bumper cars at the fair.

 

Yeah but if the bastards didn't set the speed limits so low he wouldn't
have to speed in the even firster place would he.

 

"SPEED is a major contributory factor in a large percentage of road traffic
accidents."

No it isn't.

 

Nobody *has* to speed.

JJ

 

Who is forcing him to break the speed limit?

 

Still 50kph in Germany is it? Which is a tad over 30mph.

They also kill fewer children than we do. So your

 

Speed limits in residential areas are lower, for example 30kph on the
development where a friend lives, and Germans tend to obey it. As I
said, appropriate speed limits, which implies not blanket stupid ones.

 

My first car was an Austin Healey Sprite, the one that became known as a
frogeye. It was very basic but I thought it was a lovely little car, just
the thing for enjoying carefree driving. Indeed quite a cameraderie
developed among Sprite drivers in those days - 1960ish. Happy days.

Best wishes all,
Dave - alias TripleS.

 

I love that advert - They just look so 'I done another bad thing'.
Reminds me of certain UKRMers.

 

One problem is that people jam on their brakes for speed cameras, even when
they are not speeding in the first place. Nearly saw a pile up from some
tailgating prat in a green Audi at the bottom of the M11 today when someone
just did that.

Oddly enough today I happened to meet several Essex police speed camera
police officers today and they showed me a range of photographs of fatal
accidents of cars who had hit pedestrians at a range of speeds ranging from
25-40 mph at the moment of impact. The difference to the damage to the cars
was extremely surprising. I also saw a range of photographs from fatal
car-car accidents that happened at speeds below the speed limit but at an
unsafe speed where you would have thought an accident unlikely or in the
event of one, not much would have happened.

I even got to play with real radar and laser speed traps. Some really
personal 1:1 observations from the officers and a really good PR event that
made you feel that cameras are not just money makers. Interesting that all
the mobile cameras are police officer operated (as opposed to civvies) and
that they targeted serious speeders rather than those who drift just above
the speed limit.

I drove home well under the speed limits after that!

 

You can see them on the overhead gantry on the M1S, after the M10 exit about
half a mile before the slip road exit for the M25 . They are not traffic
flow cameras and look like other SPECS cameras, although they could possibly
be ANPR. I have not seen the matching pair for the exit to this section, but
I always go east from here, so maybe they are on the westbound M25 entry.

 

That depends on how you define "large percentage".

It also depends on how you define speed, and how you define a "major
contributory factor".

Using what most people would consider sensible definitions, it is
something like 7%. Although even there, speed does not mean "over the
speed limit".

Using the definitions of the "speed kills" twats, it is more like 30%.

 

Did they explain how they determined the speeds?

 

Drive along the A14 Huntingdon->Cambridge, either way, you'll soon get
the point.