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Motorway Speed Limits

Native Tongue · 2007-01-14 00:45:58

The motorway speed limit argument is a tough one to call. I often wonder whether the motorway speed limit should be increased. If you're driving a powerful car, driving at 90-100mph on a motorway feels like a cruise. That's fine and it's probably perfectly safe when driving a powerful car on the motorway. But if you up the…

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#32 15-01-2007 12:23pm
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Native Tongue wrote:

CLK320

That'd be well at home to sitting at over 100mph all day then! Nice comfortable cruiser I'd say.
Really they'd need to start classing cars into groups and enforcing the limit according to the group of car you have, provided you've passed a special test of advanced driving techniques, but in practice that would be impossible to do and enforce. In an ideal world though...

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#33 15-01-2007 1:34pm
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embraer170 wrote:

I find that in most cases Irish drivers move over after a few flashes of the headlights.

They should be watching their mirrors, you shouldn't need to flash.

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