Are Average Cameras Proving to be the Dream Ticket?

[Duddy]

[M8TJT]

[worried]

[worried]

I forgot about Tachographs, its a few years since I was involved, but I think that they have to be accurate with vertually no tolerance.

This is where I used to do my Speedo calibrations, Millbrook Proving Bedfordshire

[DennisN]

[pward]

[Skippy]

[DeLorean]

I’ve always wondered how reliable the number identification on these SPECS cameras is

There must be a high degree of tolerance on the identification of plates.

I’d also swear that if you’re coming up on outside lane next to a big lorry (hanging back slightly) it can’t possibly see you; unless it has x-ray vision

You could try: Never washing your number plates or remove the splattered flies to decrease your chances of identification
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[tonywalker]

[Andy_P]

[phmode]

OK. We all know how to drive on the M(insert local motorway number here) when there are roadworks with a SPECS system. Anyone being silly here just deserves to be blatted by the authorities.

But, off the motorway system, how do I know if I am in a SPECS zone? Take the Cat and Fiddle road in Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire ( or wherever ). I can easily see that if I am taking Great Aunty Mabel for a leisurely drive in the country, it would be too easy to 'forget', despite the doubtless sign posts every 2 miles, that I am in an average speed zone.

Does my Garmin 2820 differentiate between normal cameras and average speed zones?

Even if it does, how do I know when I am still 'IN' a zone and when I am 'OUT' of a zone. Nothing tells me when I am past the last in the series or web of cameras.

None of these things exist on my normal routes so I can't check what happens on the sat nav but it would be worrying not knowing when I was still being 'averaged'.

You can't always stick to the posted speed limit, it may be easy to do 50 through the roadworks on a motorway, but in real life, where you have junctions and traffic and silly things like people and bikes and horses to contend with, you have absolutely no idea what your 'true average' really is.

I might have to dig out my old Speedpilot, beloved of rally navigators of old, but with my advancing years I doubt if I would be able to remember how to use the thing.

So, any advice on how to know when you are in an average zone and how to stay below the posted speed without driving everywhere AT or BELOW(?) the posted speed. I mean, that just seems dumb, that is almost, well, sticking to the speed limit!!!

Regards, Brian

[pcaouolte]

[DennisN]

Great Aunty Mabel must be quite a girl if her idea of a leasurely drive is to howl along one of the reputed most dangerous roads in the country at over the speed limit!

Advice on how to stay below the posted speed :-

1. Don't take Great Aunty Mabel out for a drive, she's obviously a bad influence.

2. Keep your eyes on the road and the posted speed limit and if you see silly things like junctions, traffic, people, bikes and horses, SLOW DOWN to avoid them instead of treating them as an obstacle course for giving Great Aunty Mabel a vertigo or balance booster.

3. Put a half brick UNDER your accelerator pedal, instead of on top of it and wear lightweight driving shoes with sandpaper insoles (or even bare feet).

Really, as I've said before elsewhere, it's a case of changing your (I mean this for EVERYBODY, it's not for you personally) driving attitude.

Set off in good time to get there without pushing it. Don't drive AT or UP TO the speed limit - drive in such a way that a momentary lapse in concentration results in your speed falling, not rising. Remember, even Great Aunty Mabel has been heard to say (very quietly, I know, but heard nevertheless) "It's better to arrive 5 minutes late in this world than 50 (or 5) years early in the next".

And just what are you going to do with the five minutes you save by chancing your (and other road user's) luck? I suppose you could use the extra time to earn enough to pay for the fuel and tyres the higher speed costs you. (I sold my last van at the end of February having done 96,000 miles in the two years since new and I had not replaced the front disk brake pads and only put four new tyres on it - don't you just hate silly old me?).
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[chrisb80]

Reading the posts about average speed cameras and other head on recording ones makes me wonder how can they catch speeding motorbikes with a registration plate on the back only. I've often wondered this, perhaps someone can explain, I'd love to know.

[DennisN]

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