Ugh speed van

Headshot

Think I got caught by a speed van. ****er was well hidden

Speed limit was 80km, I was doing 90km

I presume I wont get away with it so how long does it take for the driver to receive the notification?

OU812

About three weeks

Ubbquittious

You might escape..

Cee-Jay-Cee

If your speedo was showing 90kmh then chances are you'll get away with it. They allow 9kmh in all zones and speedos generally over read by 5-10% so you should be ok.

cml387

I was sure I was caught on a stretch of the N52 near Delvin doing 90 in an 80 but I never heard anything from them. It it was genuinely 90 I'd say you are ok.

SmartinMartin

They allow 8 km over the limit, and yes most speedometers read around 5km above actual speed, so you should be ok.

The Royal Scam

When is there going to be bans for people who insist on asking this very same question at least once ir twice a week, and also the same answer every time ' if yer doing 150 on your speedo your only doing 100 in reality blah blah blah....'

emeldc

So is it 8 or 9 km's then. Where does anyone get this info from.

freshpopcorn

emeldc wrote: »

So is it 8 or 9 km's then. Where does anyone get this info from.

Liz O'Donnell told me over lunch!

Ubbquittious

emeldc wrote: »

So is it 8 or 9 km's then. Where does anyone get this info from.

I escaped once with a similar amount over

Isambard

emeldc wrote: »

So is it 8 or 9 km's then. Where does anyone get this info from.

i think that may be an urban myth. If there is an allowance, it's far more likely to be a percentage I would have thought.

Samuel T. Cogley

emeldc wrote: »

So is it 8 or 9 km's then. Where does anyone get this info from.

Done doing 58 in a 50.

BKtje

Ive checked my speed using two seperate gps systems from different brands. All gave me within 2 km/h the speed I was doing on the speedometer. Unless gps systems also give the exact same extra margin this is not always the case.

Samuel T. Cogley

BKtje wrote: »

Ive checked my speed using two seperate gps systems from different brands. All gave me within 2 km/h the speed I was doing on the speedometer. Unless gps systems also give the exact same extra margin this is not always the case.

You've an odd speedo.

I'm in rentals throughout the year and the GPS is almost always slower than the speedo by a good 5-10 KPH.

Bruthal

Isambard wrote: »

i think that may be an urban myth. If there is an allowance, it's far more likely to be a percentage I would have thought.

There is a 9 km threshold. Why would it be likely a percentage?

Bruthal

emeldc wrote: »

So is it 8 or 9 km's then.

9 km over actual speed and it registers, therefore up to 8 it does not. Simple really.

Where does anyone get this info from.

Somehow a van operator must have got in contact with someone and told all.

emeldc

Bruthal wrote: »

9 km over actual speed and it registers, therefore up to 8 it does not. Simple really.




Somehow a van operator must have got in contact with someone and told all.

What a fantastic contribution. Thanks for that. Where would we be without you.

Bruthal

emeldc wrote: »

What a fantastic contribution. Thanks for that. Where would we be without you.

No bother. Happy to simplify.

TheChizler

SmartinMartin wrote: »

most speedometers read around 5km above actual speed, so you should be ok.

A dangerous assumption! Some are very accurate over the entire range, and most are tuned to be accurate in the 80 to 100 km/h range. While it might help the OP, I always feel the need to point this out in case people get the idea they can safely drive over the limit.

CeilingFly

SmartinMartin wrote: »

They allow 8 km over the limit, and yes most speedometers read around 5km above actual speed, so you should be ok.

Colleague of mine got ticket for 105km on 100km stretch of naas road

She's very pissed off that it was such a small amount over - I was surprised that they wouldn't allow 5km, but it was there in black and white.

Feckers

emeldc

CeilingFly wrote: »

Colleague of mine got ticket for 105km on 100km stretch of naas road

She's very pissed off that it was such a small amount over - I was surprised that they wouldn't allow 5km, but it was there in black and white.

Feckers

But ?? but ?? 'Bruthal' said ??

Bruthal

emeldc wrote: »

But ?? but ?? 'Bruthal' said ??

A sure i myself got a ticket for 100.5 in a 100 zone, the feckers. Imagine if it was a garda with a speed gun, rather than a gosafe van., 100.1, perhaps...

eringobragh

CeilingFly wrote: »

Colleague of mine got ticket for 105km on 100km stretch of naas road

She's very pissed off that it was such a small amount over - I was surprised that they wouldn't allow 5km, but it was there in black and white.

Feckers

From someone that works within gossafe, They've changed the thresholds a good while now (years in fact) to be just inside redflexes specs, not proving lucrative enough for the state it would seem

Headshot

Yup I got caught

80km limit, my speed was 91km 80 euro fine

ugh

RustyNut

Headshot wrote: »

Yup I got caught

80km limit, my speed was 91km 80 euro fine

ugh

Bummer.

highdef

Headshot wrote: »

Yup I got caught

80km limit, my speed was 91km 80 euro fine

ugh

Something must be wrong then. You said you were doing 90kmph. I'm being presumptuous by saying that this is the speed you were going according to the speedo. If so, you're speedo must not be calibrated correctly as it is UNDER-READING your speed. We have to assume that speed shown in the speeding fine is correct, of course!

If the fine says you were doing 91, I would have expected you to say that your speed (according to the speedo) was between 95 - 100, in which case you should have been aware you were well over. However you have stated in your first post that this was not the case.

Get your speedo calibrated or you may get fined more often than you should.

beechwood55

How would you know what speed you were going at to the exact kph??

Tigger

BKtje wrote: »

Ive checked my speed using two seperate gps systems from different brands. All gave me within 2 km/h the speed I was doing on the speedometer. Unless gps systems also give the exact same extra margin this is not always the case.

BMW? They have accurate speedos especially with new properly inflated tyres

highdef

beechwood55 wrote: »

How would you know what speed you were going at to the exact kph??

I drive an Astra and I can tell at a glance what speed I am doing to the nearest 1/2 kmph.

As for my real speed, I tested various speeds with two different GPS based speedometers so that I could figure out how much my car speedometer over reads.

It's not rocket science.

sunny2004

emeldc wrote: »

So is it 8 or 9 km's then. Where does anyone get this info from.

and I thought it was 10% lol

just to add to the confusion...

galwaytt

...never mind all that, the question I want to know is at what range, and over what distance are the two readings taken ?

ironclaw

galwaytt wrote: »

...never mind all that, the question I want to know is at what range, and over what distance are the two readings taken ?

You are thinking of GATSO cameras e.g. Two images, lines on the road etc. GoSafe only needs one reading. But when I say 'one reading', its sampling your speed a good couple of times per second.

Range is, rule of thumb, 2.5 times the width of the road.

Boscoirl

Best to drive around at 60kmph to be safe

highdef

Boscoirl wrote: »

Best to drive around at 60kmph to be safe

....in a 60kmph zone, yes of course