Reply to: For our German residents

[stek]

It depends upon the speed she was doing on whether she gets points or not. Now if she was doing a speed where points would be given then they won't go on her UK license but they will go on her record in Flensburg as if she had a German license and if she does it again, then they'll continue adding points until she is banned which might cause some problems somewhere along the line. In Germany you can get points even if you haven't got a license which shocks some cyclists who might have committed a traffic offence and when they do get a license, its got points on it!

Arrived in the post on Friday, with a nice pic of a perplexed Mrs Stek at the wheel and pic of the numberplate.

Said she was doing 59kmh, which is what I saw when glanced at the speedo, but unfortunately was in a 50 not a 60. €15.00 fine and that's it. Not bad compared to my 3 points, £60 fine for 34 in a 30 in UK....

[darmstadt]

It depends upon the speed she was doing on whether she gets points or not. Now if she was doing a speed where points would be given then they won't go on her UK license but they will go on her record in Flensburg as if she had a German license and if she does it again, then they'll continue adding points until she is banned which might cause some problems somewhere along the line. In Germany you can get points even if you haven't got a license which shocks some cyclists who might have committed a traffic offence and when they do get a license, its got points on it!

[WTFH]

It was a fast visit too, she only came for about half an hour.

[clearedforlanding]

Last time I phoned your wife up, she drove at 200kph to get to see me.

I laughed at this until the implied sloppy seconds hit me.*

*figuratively.

[WTFH]

In my opinion, any woman driver doing excess of 150 kmph isn't getting enough from her partner ....

Last time I phoned your wife up, she drove at 200kph to get to see me.

[FatLazyContractor]

This time she was pulling over 200 km/hr occasionally on autobahn, I was frozen with fear, car was fine at 180, 200 it was a bit rattled....

In my opinion, any woman driver doing excess of 150 kmph isn't getting enough from her partner ....

[WTFH]

Yup, also under-inflated (or worn) tyres will give an over reading

[clearedforlanding]

An oft-misquoted fallacy!

The UK law, based on the EU legislation is that it must not be under the actual speed and not more than 10% over +6.25mph.

How accurate is your car speedometer? #AskTCE

Fair enough, thanks for the clarification. I would take a punt that as well as compliance with the law, that marketing is going to push for that speedo to push as close to that 10% as possible.

[WTFH]

If I recall EU legislation is that speedometers must read at least 10% over actual speed.

An oft-misquoted fallacy!

The UK law, based on the EU legislation is that it must not be under the actual speed and not more than 10% over +6.25mph.

http://www.thecarexpert.co.uk/how-ac...r-speedometer/

[clearedforlanding]

Expect a small fine in the post. This one I had to visit the police station to get a slap on my wrist. The police officer was actually quite funny.

Rental Car. Will go to Car Company & and applied against credit card auth (Or corp account) with an admin fee on a UK license in DE.

[scooterscot]

Expect a small fine in the post. This one I had to visit the police station to get a slap on my wrist. The police officer was actually quite funny.

[clearedforlanding]

You sure that's not the auto box doing that?

The SatNav 'reads the road' & sends instructions to the gear box, which are compared to sensor readings allowing for the next gear to be preselected.

[Troll]

Mine changes the car's gears according to gradient, bends & a myriad of other things on the route..

You sure that's not the auto box doing that?

[clearedforlanding]

True dat.. I always do speedo indicated 55mph in those 50mph average speed areas

Always wondered how accurate the the sat nav speed display is as it suggests I could go faster

If I recall EU legislation is that speedometers must read at least 10% over actual speed.

As to Sat Nav the speed measurement error based on carrier phase rate (Doppler offset) is less than than 0.07mph.

With a modern Satnav with a good chip set and software it is pretty damn accurate. Mine changes the car's gears according to gradient, bends & a myriad of other things on the route.

Old Tom Toms can be 5-7 miles out, but they are always conservative.

[Troll]

If the speedo is reading 60 (kph?) then the real speed was probably 55-58.
Don't know how the German cameras are set up but they may take the over-read into account.

True dat.. I always do speedo indicated 55mph in those 50mph average speed areas

Always wondered how accurate the the sat nav speed display is as it suggests I could go faster