Speed camera threshold?

[The Grey One]

My new Honda CRF1000 is indicating 10% above actual, I found out by checking the speedo against my Garmin, my Yeti too reads 10% above. I was under the impression that legislation is in place to ensure all speedos over read, maybe I'm wrong.

M

Legislation says they must not under read. They are allowed 10% plus 4kph over reading.Due to variations in engineering tolerances manufactures design in a certain amount of over reading to ensure that they do not ever produce a unit which under reads. Older cable driven systems vary more than modern electronic ones hence the fact that older vehicles are more likely to exaggerate your speed. Most modern vehicles still end to over read but by only a small margin

John

 

[Betty Swollocks]

Bhud, good to hear from you. Long time no see ��

For the rest of you guys, I really should have known better. I ride/drive within 10% of ringed speed limits. That's the way I was trained and I consider myself an experienced driver. I made a conscious decision to pass the black transit van just to get a clearer view of the road ahead... I was thinking speed camera as I passed and jumped on the brakes the second it came into view.

But I am only too aware of how these things work.... the second you see it, it has probably already caught you if the operator is checking speeds. So, yes I did brake, but think I was probably already caught at 57 in a 50. (Though reading 59)

With the information I know, that would be ok here in Northern Ireland. Outside the tolerances used today.

I'm sure there are at least a few Tossers on here who maybe know or work with Police Scotland's Road Policing unit. They will know what the tolerances are about Inverness.

I can take a 14 day wait if it was my own vehicle, but am annoyed that it is a hire car and it could take weeks or months (Christmas Holidays) before the letter could arrive.

Hence the question, anyone know the tolerances they work at?

 

[Norrie]

After all that Did you get nicked or get away with it ? Or still sweating, I had a similar experience in Wales but have heard nothing.

Norrie

 

[harry]

After all that Did you get nicked or get away with it ? Or still sweating, I had a similar experience in Wales but have heard nothing.

Norrie

He's in jail

 

[Betty Swollocks]

Still sweating every day.

I know they have 14 days to get the first letter in the post. normally I'd be ok, BUT, it's a hire car.

So , 14 days to ask Avis who rented the car... 14 days for them to say it was me.

Allowing for holidays I'm guessing another 14 days for the ticket people to ask me who was driving.........

So it was 4 weeks today. Had it been my own car I would know by now. But as it is a hire car and the holiday period, I'm in limbo.

Gonna sweat it out until this time next month!

 

[dancerdave]

Still sweating every day.

I know they have 14 days to get the first letter in the post. normally I'd be ok, BUT, it's a hire car.

So , 14 days to ask Avis who rented the car... 14 days for them to say it was me.

Allowing for holidays I'm guessing another 14 days for the ticket people to ask me who was driving.........

So it was 4 weeks today. Had it been my own car I would know by now. But as it is a hire car and the holiday period, I'm in limbo.

Gonna sweat it out until this time next month!

You're Fecked, Steve

 

[AberdeenAngus]

Still sweating every day.

I know they have 14 days to get the first letter in the post. normally I'd be ok, BUT, it's a hire car.

So , 14 days to ask Avis who rented the car... 14 days for them to say it was me.

Allowing for holidays I'm guessing another 14 days for the ticket people to ask me who was driving.........

So it was 4 weeks today. Had it been my own car I would know by now. But as it is a hire car and the holiday period, I'm in limbo.

Gonna sweat it out until this time next month!

Nah. You're OK. They have upto 14 days but the safety camera boys get them tickets out sharpish.
Reckon you squeaked through.

 

[King Rat]

I feel all your pain, anyone who has fallen foul of cameras - I am in no position to judge having only just hung onto my license for being a terrible nuisance on the roads - every one of my tickets was for marginal errors, on motorways or dual carriageways. However it has cured me and I am now an even greater nuisance, holding up tractors and small cars towing caravans as I now have a policy of driving or riding at the speed limit MINUS 10% - I am now that mobile chicane that is causing you to become frustrated. I will have to be for another 5 years.

Sorry, but I need to have the transport.

On the speedo front. The little Golf is bang on the money, or only 1mph out compared to a settled GPS. The GPS does have a little time lag while it calculates, but at steady speed, I was amazed how accurate the speedo is.

 

[cherokee]

I recently got fined 35 in a 30 in Slough 12.35am got offered speed awareness course...

 

[Betty Swollocks]

I recently got fined 35 in a 30 in Slough 12.35am got offered speed awareness course...

BarStewards. I think that's criminal.

Mine was a conscious sneak over the 10% because I couldn't see past the van in front. Possibly caught me only because I couldn't see round a left hand bend.

Your's is a kick in the teeth. 10% + 2mph is a joke in my opinion.

I am very often guilty of driving very fast, but usually not in "ringed" speed limits.

A couple of hours earlier had the same van pinged me in the national speed limit area, I'd have accepted it. Stretched the legs of the 190bhp hire car on the open road and was intentionally driving at a speed which I was confident was safe for the circumstances.

It was enjoyable, measured and well within my limits and those of the car.

But I'm still watching the post every day for the envelope dropping through the letter box.

 

[Bryn]

nicking at 10% plus 2 is criminal.....I spent 17 years on police traffic bikes, and for my sins I was the 'Pro-laser' hand held trainer. so I'd teach cops how it works. I always emphasised that it was much better to ticket the people that needed ticketing rather than quantity.

In the 17 years I never issued more than a bollocking unless the driver was doing 46 in a 30. if I got any argument , which was rare I'd just say 'What do you expect, you are more than 50% over the speed limit'

And for that reason I think I had to go to court 3 or 4 times in the 17 years for not guilty pleas

Problem is that 'safety' camera vans have no discretion ... and you spend all your time looking at your speedo, and looking for the vans , rather than at the road ahead...which is a sad state of affairs

 

[Giles]

For a few years we had a real performance culture that has now, thank God, completely gone. (independent review highlighted major problems with performance targets ... ). Back in those days we had to submit daily performance figures. "How many tickets have you done today ... ?'

I absolutely hated it, and as Bryn says, rarely gave a ticket out for anything under about 43 in a 30. Far better to stop somebody and talk to them ...

 

[snelly]

For a few years we had a real performance culture that has now, thank God, completely gone. (independent review highlighted major problems with performance targets ... ). Back in those days we had to submit daily performance figures. "How many tickets have you done today ... ?'

I absolutely hated it, and as Bryn says, rarely gave a ticket out for anything under about 43 in a 30. Far better to stop somebody and talk to them ...

Those last 2 post have cheered my Christmas up no end. Having spent my working life on the road , as a diesel tramp, the opinions of two , who also live on the road are heartening, its a pity cameras are taking your jobs . Bryn, Giles, cheers lads.