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Hello, i was just listen to people on the radio talking about speed limits, not i spend a long time on the motorways, i travel 110mile round trip each day to uni and i really do feel 70 is way to slow, maybe 50 years ago it was ok but now with moden cars there doesnt seem to be a need to travel is slowly? i just wanted to see what other people my sort of ages feels about this?
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I think it's pretty stupid that cars are able to go at like 120 or something and the limits are so much lower. The limits are there for a reason though. I don't think cars should be manufactured so that they are able to go at like 120mph.
Speed is a sympom of reckless driving not a cause, people need to remember that
I think motorways should all have variable speed limits, where say rush hour traffic limitied to 60mph or something similar and in the middle of the night when there's hardly anyone on them why no 90mph in a modern car??
I personally drive quite fast on motorways, normally around 90-100mph of course only when I feel it's safe to do so, but repsect small roads and 30mph speed limits as there is a strong reason for having them set!
will you say the same when you have a steering wheel lodged in your throat and the top of your head on the parcel shelf? :chin:
lovely imagery there :eek:
But then I also see a lot of nutters bombing it down the motorways at 110 - 120 mph, and to be honest it's not necessary. If you're in that much of a hurry to get somewhere you should have left earlier; it's intimidating and it does up the risk of a crash. Fair enough if you're a safe driver, but you can't guarantee that other people will be. I'd rather err on the side of safety than get to work faster.
a crash at 70mph could just as easily cause that to happen
aye but also it gives you a lot more time to react...
anyway im not going to get into semantics, im not gonna get involved in defending speeding...speeding kills, thats the end
I agree that 70mph does seem slow at times. Nothing worse when your on a long stretch of motorway with no cars for miles and your stuck at 70mph. IF the speed limit was to be increased though better training and understanding would need to be enforced to drivers.
Does anyone (without looking at websites or books) know the stopping distance for a car in dry conditions at 70mph? 80mph? 100mph? Add the thinking distances on top of that. So at 50mph with someone driving so far up your tail you can't even see their reg plate is dangerous enough but for it to happen at 70mph is crazy. And without greater teaching to drivers how crazier it is at 80, 90 100mph I don't think we are ready for an increase.
And anyway, if we all kept to the speed limit we could use a different type of stone on the motorways and they'd virtually never have to be re-surfaced. But this type of stone is quite smooth and its too easy to aqua-plane on it at over 70.
Variable speed limits are the way to go. Like they have in Germany.
It's not speed that kills, it's driving in excess of what the conditions require that's dangerous.
Not at all. But I'd rather people who do drive like maniacs did it at 70 mph than at 110 mph.
Agree 100%. But the problem is is that there are too many people on the roads who don't currently adhere to this advice so by increasing the limit and not addressing this issue surely we will run a greater risk of death and injury?
Look at Germany with it's varibale limits. The speed limit is determined by road temperature, humidity, precipitaion, traffic levels etc and I think you'll find it works far better than the outdated system we have here.
With the change in technology should have come a change in speed limits.
Some people cruise in the middle lane reading their favourite book. Once i saw a sign on this womens dashboard that read "DONT FORGET THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT"...scary.
In countries like Germany, the motorways are designed for people to travel at higher speeds on them - eg. longer slip roads, allowing people to have more time to think and react.
I can understand how easy it is to break the speed limit, hell I've even done 80 sometimes and my car doesn't even have a 1 litre engine. But travelling a 160 mile trip to uni several times a week, I just think that there are too many drivers that are not equipped to drive at such speeds. I get scared enough by the things people do when my average speed is only about 55!
I'm don't disagree. But the mentality of the British driver is different to others. I've driven all over France and (we're not talking about city driving or country driving cause I believe they are worse than us!!) on the motorway the outside lane is used for overtaking. Once your past the car you pull back in leaving the outside lane free. Here everyone drives in the outside lane leaving the inside lanes free. Causing people to drive right up the arse of the person in front or undertaking and such.
I'm sure most people 'average speed' is well below that, but that speed is dangerous on a motorway or a straight dual carrigeway which has the nation speed limit - too slow.
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I think this has to be one of the most dangerous things omebody can do. People that hover around in the middle lane are fucking idiots. A frustrated driver is the one of the most dangerous thing on the road. There need to be a police campaign against those that sit in the middle lane regardless.