Speeding
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@crazy-horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Driver aids are a distraction too.
This, one hundred times. The only car accident I've ever had was due to the automatic braking system on my Skoda when changing lanes on the M25. The red warning light came on and distracted me and I rear-ended the bloke in front at 30kph. Not even sure the system kicked in fully. Now turned off permanently.
Another thing which gets my goat is the distraction from steering wheel controls for infotainment systems and touch screens - need an option to turn these off while the car is moving. I want to see my speed and get basic information in one place and that's it.
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@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
Although I guess the argument is that you shouldn't have got yourself in the situation anyway ....
Well, I think I now know where the cretin who didn't notice me overtaking before he pulled out into my path lives....
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@victor-meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
I am genuinely surprised by the negativity of a system that saves lives and keeps us all safer. It may actually be a good thing for car clubs and track days as it will encourage people to speed on purpose-built tracks, not public roads.
A system like that would be lethal on a motorcycle where a motorbike's superior acceleration gets you out of more accident situations than braking
Yep... I can testify to that... getting into a dodgy situation, figuring it was safer to accelerate out of trouble than slam on the brakes with unpredictable results... and then realising that a Royal Enfield Bullet doesn't really have that instant acceleration.
I am to this day, pretty sure that the streak of paint on the rear fender of that bike was from the oncoming truck. -
@jc said in Grumpy Old Man:
@majorrage Yep. Every day. I have to admit that in every way except hoon factor it is a better car than the Kamikaze Killer.
Did you trade it in? Noooooooo ...
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@majorrage No, I traded my X3. There’s a few summers left in the Datsun yet. But it really is stupid.
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@snowy The GTR is incredibly tiring to drive in the real world. It isn't designed for Grumpy Old Men even though that's the demographic that can afford to run it. Just getting in and out generates weird noises that I didn't know my body made until just a few years ago. The steering is heavy and the suspension is low and stiff, which isn't ideal in Napier as some arsebandit in the council has decided we need speed humps everywhere.
I'm pretty confident that I could get from Napier to Whangarei in the SUV quicker than I could in the Nissan. And the SUV has more shit going on that is important to me as a GOM than a sports car offers. Like air suspension. And heated and cooled cupholders. Where have they been all my life?
Edit: Oooh, and the paint on the Beamer is amazing. Tanzanite Blue II. Mmmm.
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@jc said in Grumpy Old Man:
. And heated and cooled cupholders. Where have they been all my life?
That's really awesome. I didn't know new cars also had that.
I have never used seat warmers before despite having them in the past few cars as I don't need my bum warmed. What I didn't know is that it also heats the lower to mid back! I wish I knew that as I would have used it many times.
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@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy speed limits are up the crapper. Some are too high, a helluva lot are too low.
Why do we have 110 Hamilton - Cambridge but not other parts of Waikato Expressway or Albany -Puhoi.
They're talking about making Taupo - Napier 80 kph. I get there are a fair number of fatalities on that road and many of them are speed related but I'm betting where speed is involved there are other factors as well. Plus I reckon they'll be well over the current limit and won't be the type of driver who drops from 130 to 110 because the new limit has gone down 20 kph.
Is any other country as strict as NZ on speed limits & advertising / enforcement of them?
Victoria. Victorian motorists are regularly ticketed for exceeding the limit by as little as 2km/h
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy speed limits are up the crapper. Some are too high, a helluva lot are too low.
Why do we have 110 Hamilton - Cambridge but not other parts of Waikato Expressway or Albany -Puhoi.
They're talking about making Taupo - Napier 80 kph. I get there are a fair number of fatalities on that road and many of them are speed related but I'm betting where speed is involved there are other factors as well. Plus I reckon they'll be well over the current limit and won't be the type of driver who drops from 130 to 110 because the new limit has gone down 20 kph.
Is any other country as strict as NZ on speed limits & advertising / enforcement of them?
Victoria. Victorian motorists are regularly ticketed for exceeding the limit by as little as 2km/h
Via camera only or Police pull over too? That is crazy
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@hooroo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy speed limits are up the crapper. Some are too high, a helluva lot are too low.
Why do we have 110 Hamilton - Cambridge but not other parts of Waikato Expressway or Albany -Puhoi.
They're talking about making Taupo - Napier 80 kph. I get there are a fair number of fatalities on that road and many of them are speed related but I'm betting where speed is involved there are other factors as well. Plus I reckon they'll be well over the current limit and won't be the type of driver who drops from 130 to 110 because the new limit has gone down 20 kph.
Is any other country as strict as NZ on speed limits & advertising / enforcement of them?
Victoria. Victorian motorists are regularly ticketed for exceeding the limit by as little as 2km/h
Via camera only or Police pull over too? That is crazy
Both. And they hide so you can't see them.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@hooroo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy speed limits are up the crapper. Some are too high, a helluva lot are too low.
Why do we have 110 Hamilton - Cambridge but not other parts of Waikato Expressway or Albany -Puhoi.
They're talking about making Taupo - Napier 80 kph. I get there are a fair number of fatalities on that road and many of them are speed related but I'm betting where speed is involved there are other factors as well. Plus I reckon they'll be well over the current limit and won't be the type of driver who drops from 130 to 110 because the new limit has gone down 20 kph.
Is any other country as strict as NZ on speed limits & advertising / enforcement of them?
Victoria. Victorian motorists are regularly ticketed for exceeding the limit by as little as 2km/h
Via camera only or Police pull over too? That is crazy
Both. And they hide so you can't see them.
Man that's disappointing to hear.
I got a ticket for 108 two days ago and I was fine with that. I know the rules and that is far enough over to warrant a ticket. Had a good yarn to the officer too. $30 and 10 demerits
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@hooroo said in Grumpy Old Man:
What I didn't know is that it also heats the lower to mid back! I wish I knew that as I would have used it many times.
Really good if you have a sore back. Like using deep heat, or what ever that shit was that they used to use at rugby. Liniment - that was it. Stank, but worked.
@hooroo said in Grumpy Old Man:
I got a ticket for 108
I thought that was O.K? Unless holiday times when 104? I often set cruise control to 106 (GPS speed, car speedos usually overread by 5 ish KPH).
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@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
@hooroo said in Grumpy Old Man:
What I didn't know is that it also heats the lower to mid back! I wish I knew that as I would have used it many times.
Really good if you have a sore back. Like using deep heat, or what ever that shit was that they used to use at rugby. Liniment - that was it. Stank, but worked.
@hooroo said in Grumpy Old Man:
I got a ticket for 108
I thought that was O.K? Unless holiday times when 104? I often set cruise control to 106 (GPS speed, car speedos usually overread by 5 ish KPH).
Yeah, I thought 108 wasn't too bad either. Certainly couldn't complain about getting a ticket. My speedo was prolly on 110-112
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@jc said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat Cheers, never saw that.
It was %10 wasn't it? 55 in a 50?
Has anyone got a horse for sale?
William Willis won't be needing his.
LOl.
Didn't really want to go jumping poles (so to speak) just a means of going out without getting a speeding fine.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@hooroo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@majorrage said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy speed limits are up the crapper. Some are too high, a helluva lot are too low.
Why do we have 110 Hamilton - Cambridge but not other parts of Waikato Expressway or Albany -Puhoi.
They're talking about making Taupo - Napier 80 kph. I get there are a fair number of fatalities on that road and many of them are speed related but I'm betting where speed is involved there are other factors as well. Plus I reckon they'll be well over the current limit and won't be the type of driver who drops from 130 to 110 because the new limit has gone down 20 kph.
Is any other country as strict as NZ on speed limits & advertising / enforcement of them?
Victoria. Victorian motorists are regularly ticketed for exceeding the limit by as little as 2km/h
Via camera only or Police pull over too? That is crazy
Both. And they hide so you can't see them.
Victorian motorists are regularly ticketed for exceeding the limit by as little as 2km/h
That is crazy. Doesn't it negatively impact the relationship the public have with the police and fuel suspicion it's all about raising money and not road safety?
In the UK it's 10% plus 2mph (e.g you can do 35 before being nicked), there has to be warning signs that cameras are in operation and all camera/cars must be conspicuously marked/bright yellow. A few years back a Chief Constable had to resign when his force was found to be using warning signs that were too small and all the fines were refunded.
And yet road accident rates in the UK are really low despite the relatively high speed limits we have.
