Is it worth pursuing a career anymore...

[Andyw]

Probably. Currently my ex (who I have tried to show the difference between salary & dividend) wants 99% of my salary and 30% of my dividends. Oh yeah - and a whole bunch of cash from the business...

...gotta laugh...

you won't be ! believe me !

[Ardesco]

In principle it should - although your assumption is that car speedometers are 100% accurate ( the reason why police cars have 2 speeds = 1 standard issue & 1 calibrated), when I were a lad there was a 10% margin of error on speedos either way, and plod would only prosecute you if you were 10% over...which seemed a pretty fair & just way of working.

Now in this fecked up country we are prosecuted for any transgression, auto fined for any lateness in submitting documentation and seem to spend most of our lives watching over our shoulders.


<rant over>

If i was snapped doing 31 I would definetly take it to court where I would demand to see the calibration certificates, argue that on most speedo's you are unlikely to be able to accuratly tell the difference between 30 and 31, argue for a 5% leeway for speedo error and also find out what the margin for error for the scamera's is (i'm sure they can be 1 MPH out as they are known to not bee 100% accurate, it just hasn't been provd in court yet).

[expat]

In principle it should - although your assumption is that car speedometers are 100% accurate ( the reason why police cars have 2 speeds = 1 standard issue & 1 calibrated), when I were a lad there was a 10% margin of error on speedos either way, and plod would only prosecute you if you were 10% over...which seemed a pretty fair & just way of working.

It's not 10% either way, it's 10% over, 0% under.

For some strange reason, most people take the mention of an allowed leeway in speedometer accuracy to be equivalent to an allowed transgression in actual speed.

[DaveB]

It's not 10% either way, it's 10% over, 0% under.

For some strange reason, most people take the mention of an allowed leeway in speedometer accuracy to be equivalent to an allowed transgression in actual speed.

If you have a GPS map like TomTom etc they usually have an option to show your current speed. Mine shows a consistant +5mph discrepancy between it and the speedometer in the car. i.e. According to the speedo I'm travelling 5 mph faster than I actually am.

I've yet to have the guts to test this against a speed camera

[Flubster]

i.e. According to the speedo I'm travelling 5 mph faster than I actually am.

Have you calibrated your GPS device?

[Ardesco]

Hmm i wonder if GPS logs your the speed of your journey, and if so if it would stand up in court?

I shall have to fiddle with my PDA GPS and see

[BlasterBates]

If i was snapped doing 31 I would definetly take it to court where I would demand to see the calibration certificates

The new generation of radar devices are that accurate, unfortunately, its not only in the UK they've cut the tolerances, which used to be 10%, it seems to have gone down to 2%, so they probably clocked it at 33/34 subtract the 2% and do you for 31.

[expat]

If you have a GPS map like TomTom etc they usually have an option to show your current speed. Mine shows a consistant +5mph discrepancy between it and the speedometer in the car. i.e. According to the speedo I'm travelling 5 mph faster than I actually am.

That's to be expected, since your speedo is allowed to over-read but not to under-read. Naturally the manufacturers pitch at somewhere inside the tolerance zone.

[EternalOptimist]

The new generation of radar devices are that accurate, unfortunately, its not only in the UK they've cut the tolerances, which used to be 10%, it seems to have gone down to 2%, so they probably clocked it at 33/34 subtract the 2% and do you for 31.

b0llocks
radar has always been accurate, it cants be anything but. It's the calibration of the device that matters. Like a set of bathroom scales, you need to move the little dially thing so the scales read zero when nothing is on them.

[BlasterBates]

...ok then maybe its the calibration techniques then.