Who puts these people in charge?

[northernladyuk]

the issue is the roads should be policed according to real scientific evidence, and not lefty social manipulation prejudices, unsafe driving needs more attention and aderance to an arbitary speed limit assigned by politicians (and not advanced drivers who would have a proper clue of what is optimum) is a waste, the issue is policing resources could be better used for better net benefit to society including road death reduction.

the issue is far too much persecution of drivers, and far too little peer review of the road designers, and speed limit setters, etc

the issue is the simplistic speed kills nonsense, and the obvious fashions in the public sector driven by virtue signalling

as I say abd.org.uk are mostly correct on all of this, have a read of their web site

driving at a speed below the posted limit can be dangerous in very bad weather, and thats when most accidents happen, but nobody ever gets done for speeding during such times as the traffic police are rushing from one accident to another and the automatic cameras will not trigger as what is dangerous is below the posted limit

as I said before we live in a country prosecuting people for pulling through a red light to allow an ambulance on blue lights behind them through, when it is perfectly safe to do so, we have allowed mad men to set the rules

Thank you. But I was addressing the original point made.

[Hobosapien]

Until then, some cars already allow you to set a speed limit, or to sound a warning at a certain speed....

That quickly becomes very annoying.

Borrowed my dad's car the other week and as he's been done for speeding recently he's now set his sat nav to warn whenever the driver goes over the current speed limit. It's more likely to induce road rage.

If you're so worried about sticking to or below the limit catch the bus or train.

[darmstadt]

Until then, some cars already allow you to set a speed limit, or to sound a warning at a certain speed....

I think most modern cars already do, my last 3 certainly have. I set it twice a year, during winter to a maximum of 240 as that is what my winter tyres are rated for and then when I go back to normal, set it back to unlimited

[woohoo]

That quickly becomes very annoying.

Borrowed my dad's car the other week and as he's been done for speeding recently he's now set his sat nav to warn whenever the driver goes over the current speed limit. It's more likely to induce road rage.

If you're so worried about sticking to or below the limit catch the bus or train.

It's easier said than done though. The misses tried getting the metrolink into Manchester for work.

I had to drive her to the metrolink because the buses are every hour and takes about 40 mins. Then, quite often I would get a call asking for me to pick her up from random places on the line because for whatever reason the metro could not make it to its destination.

So for many people, cars are the only way to get to work.

[xoggoth]

Public transport is pathetic in country areas too. Buses in my village only go every two hours in the day and only to two towns. To get to another town I want to be this morning, less than 15 miles away, would take half the morning.

[WTFH]

Public transport is pathetic in country areas too. Buses in my village only go every two hours in the day and only to two towns. To get to another town I want to be this morning, less than 15 miles away, would take half the morning.

Every two hours? Lucky you!

One in the morning which comes back in the afternoon.

[WTFH]

Citation needed.

Criminals don't need to give citations. They think that only certain laws should apply to them.

I'm surprised that they aren't complaining about the politicians and police who insist that we drive on the left in the UK. They should fight back and drive on the right.
Oh yeah, a lot of these numpties already do - outside/middle lane hoggers who think roads should be flat and straight but can't find their indicators.

[xoggoth]

I notice that a leading traffic lawyer has made exactly the same points as me (albeit in a less ranty way).

Penalising motorists for going 1mph over the limit is 'legally unenforceable', Mr Loophole says 

I rest my case M'lord.

[woohoo]

I notice that a leading traffic lawyer has made exactly the same points as me (albeit in a less ranty way).

Penalising motorists for going 1mph over the limit is 'legally unenforceable', Mr Loophole says*

I rest my case M'lord.

Good touch, quoting the rising violent crime stat in his area.

[Grasser73]

This is a real PITA on classic vehicles such as my motorbike. At 30mph, the speedo needle sweeps between 20 and 40 so the actual speed is anyone's guess. I rely on the prevailing traffic all sticking to the limit as my speed limiter.