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What power do off-duty guards have?

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    #92
    Anan1
    Registered Users Posts: 22,818 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    CiniO wrote: »
    Let's involve a bit o maths.
    Let's assume car you are overtaking is 5m long, you change lane to right 15m before the car, and change back the same 15m after passing the car. Your car is 5m also.
    All you need is 40m.
    At speed difference of 10km/h (80km/h - 70km/h) you are travelling at 2.78m/s so you need just a bit less then 14.5s to overtake.
    At 80km/h 14.5s is a distance of 320m.

    That's long, but not as you said "long long stretch of road".
    On a nice straight stretch with low traffic, it's absolutely possible to do.
    Perversely, it'd probably be safer to overtake them at 100km/h.


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    #93
    pippip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    The "Rules of the road" is not a legal document nor can you be prosecuted for not adhering to them.

    No but you can be done for other offences as a result of not adhering to them. i.e. dangerous driving


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    #94
    KamiKazi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,201 ✭✭✭KamiKazi


    pippip wrote: »
    No but you can be done for other offences as a result of not adhering to them. i.e. dangerous driving

    In which get you get prosecuted for driving dangerously, not for breaking the rules of the road.


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    #95
    CiniO
    Registered Users Posts: 16,088 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Perversely, it'd probably be safer to overtake them at 100km/h.

    Me either.
    I just wanted to point out, that it's far from being almost impossible, as someone stated earlier.


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    #96
    pippip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    KamiKazi wrote: »
    In which get you get prosecuted for driving dangerously, not for breaking the rules of the road.

    Thats exactly what I said, sorry if it didn't read right.


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    #97
    limklad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭limklad


    batman1 wrote: »
    Although you seem to have a thorough knowledge of car speedo's, you know feck all about GPS if you are relying on it to tell the accuracy of your car. GPS has errors which will mean it would not be accurate enough to determine that information accurately. Stick to your speedo.
    You need to buy a decent GPS unit which can Acquiring multiples signals easily. The more signals it get the more accurate the location.
    The New expensive ones are far more accurate and quicker in Acquiring multiples signals than the old ones despite the offset in Location in which the US military have control off.

    The Cheap ones in Mobiles phones and most cars GPS navigation are poor and slow in acquiring signals.


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