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What speed do you do on the motorway?

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    #32
    jock101
    Registered Users Posts: 685 ✭✭✭jock101


    sheffield_mobile1.jpg

    Here's a sample from the UK of whats to come in October, and they wont be marked in bright yellow. Oh no, not here hidden in a ditch! LOLtongue.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.giftongue.gif Cheers to ANPR, designed and built to catch speeders!:D


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    #33
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    whats funny about that ?


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    #34
    CaraFawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭CaraFawn


    jock101 wrote: »
    sheffield_mobile1.jpg

    Here's a sample from the UK of whats to come in October, and they wont be marked in bright yellow. Oh no, not here hidden in a ditch! LOLtongue.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.giftongue.gif Cheers to ANPR, designed and built to catch speeders!:D

    Cool we can stop to bring them home now ;)
    We might see some of these on eBay at some stage after October lol...


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    #35
    CaraFawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭CaraFawn


    Not getting a speeding ticket in the UK is a miracle, there are speed camera and average speed stuff all over the country, even on the country side...

    What is this thing going to change? Like if there was not enough of those cameras already...


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    #36
    jock101
    Registered Users Posts: 685 ✭✭✭jock101


    Mmmm??? There mobile with the operator sitting in a unmarked car or van 10 metres or so away down a lane or street. Ive seen them being tested on the N2 near Slane a few months ago!


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    #37
    CaraFawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭CaraFawn


    jock101 wrote: »
    Mmmm??? There mobile with the operator sitting in a unmarked car or van 10 metres or so away down a lane or street. Ive seen them being tested on the N2 near Slane a few months ago!

    Ok random speed checks.
    What's new?
    What is different between this thing and a cop hidding behind a bush with a speed gun?
    This one does pictures? Oh well, we are screwed anyway if we got speeding, speed gun or not, picture or not.


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    #38
    jock101
    Registered Users Posts: 685 ✭✭✭jock101


    It also checks in realtime for Road Tax, Insurance etc... from your reg plate.

    spaceball.gif


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    #39
    dirtydiesel
    Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭dirtydiesel


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    Driving that slowly on the motorway is LESS safe.
    People doing that speed are a truck drivers nightmare, what they tend to do is speed up then slam on the brakes then take off again, leaving a trail of angry truckers behind them.


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    #40
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    jock101 wrote: »
    That so called backward hole is giving you a living, more then the MEGA backward hole you came from. So dont be so quick to bite the hand that feeds you!:rolleyes:
    Ha ha, jock, relax, I was joking...the predominant theory from a lot of people on boards.ie seems to be that Everything Is Better in Britain (especially when it comes to motoring), while I know from experience that in reality only Some Things Are Better in Britain but a whole lot of others aren't, just like any other country. Didn't mean to offend your sensibilities or anything :) The 'backward hole' comment was aimed at the fact that they are still stubbornly cling to MPH, a standing joke in my office where I keep talking about KPH to wind them up while they keep referring to drunken Irishmen and Guinness. Light-hearted banter and nothing more.

    As for the new speed cameras, a step backward IMO (not just because I speed).

    The M25 is a Motorway where for most of the day you are lucky to reach 50 mph, sometimes even 15 mph is good going while on the M11, there are stretches when road conditions, weather and traffic conditions are so good that if you overtake a police car at 85 mph, the officer doesn't bat an eyelid. At other times you would get pulled over for that speed, hence my earlier comment about the speed I drive at on Motorways.


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    #41
    NewApproach
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭NewApproach


    Depends on where the motorway is. I have never came across a speed trap in Clare where I live, and If I'm going into Limerick on the motorway I'd happily do 150/160. If there is a greater chance of getting caught, I'd go around 135.


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    #42
    dynamick
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    dirtydiesel wrote: »
    People doing that speed are a truck drivers nightmare, what they tend to do is speed up then slam on the brakes then take off again, leaving a trail of angry truckers behind them.
    Is the speed limit for trucks not 80km/h?


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    #43
    anneboleyn
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭anneboleyn


    hmmmm would say whatever the limit is ;)


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    #44
    Voodoomelon
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    bazzachazza wrote: »
    Cruise control set at 125k

    Same.


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    #45
    Adam Selene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Adam Selene


    About 150kph in the Micra.:D

    Tis scuttering all over the road at that shpeed;)


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    #46
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    these figures are before my change to a peugot partner with a 120km/h top speed

    9am-1am
    M1 - 130
    M50 - 120
    M4 - 120

    1am-5am
    M1 - 160 have done a few runs over that but lets not talk about that here
    M50 - 140
    M4 - 130

    (all this was in a Kia sorento 2.5td , if i had a faster jeep those figures may have altered a bit)


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    #47
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Lando Griffin wrote: »
    I crawl along at 120-130kmph .

    Sorry 130-145 kpmh as I was in a hurry.


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    #48
    dirtydiesel
    Registered Users Posts: 528 ✭✭✭dirtydiesel


    dynamick wrote: »
    Is the speed limit for trucks not 80km/h?
    Yes sir it is, but the issue is these guys often slow to below 80km/h forcing us to slow down to less than that, and it takes a while to get a fully loaded truck back up to 80km/h, especially if they slow us down approaching a hill.
    Its an annoying factor of driving a truck, ask any trucker what his pet hate on a motorway is and I'm sure he will mention what some of us call kangaroo drivers.


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    #49
    coffee_cake
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    af_thefragile wrote: »
    But now I've got the wheels properly balanced and its smooth till 120kmph atleast so I can get out of the loser lane out from the micras....

    My micra is quite happy doing 130-140 thank you very much!
    Loser lane, my backside!


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