Average Speed Cameras to Save the World?

[tsdinos]

Arghh another proposal to extort the motorist, as being the easiest target nowadays!
Please...some common sense
If they really care about the carbon footprint why wouldnt they reduce the tax to hybrid cars or come up with a scheme to promote them.

Another solution would be to promote public transport and reduce the cost of travelling by train!
From my experience a round trip ftom Portsmouth to London city centre cost me roughly the same by travelling by car (yes! including the London's congestion charge). Therefore If 3 or 4 persons are travelling by car it would be far cheaper to travel by car, rather than buying 4 individual tickets by train or coach!!

Does this make any sense to you?

[Border_Collie]

[Snudge]

[mikeprytherch]

Thanks for the Cruise Control idea... I guess that's a few grand more I need to spend eh.... and as for not putting your right foot down, clearly you have never accidently gone over the limit, when your mates/girlfriend/wife are giving you some in your ear, or you are laughing at the radio, distracted by some idiot driving like an idiot, actually travelling down a slight hill (not always noticable), clearly none of this has ever happen to such brilliant drivers like you, clearly you don't need the pocketgps speed camera database as your driving is so bloody good you can spot all the cameras anyway, after all they are all painted YELLOW.

My point was about concentration, you need to concentrate on your driving and not your speed, you would be very unlucky if you strayed over the limit for a few hundred yards to be caught by police, however with a average camera this WILL happen and it will effect your concentration, especially on your next journey once you get a ticket through the post.

[BigPerk]

Is there any distance info in the specs database - ie how long a particular average-speed-check stretch is between start-camera and end-camera? And does it (could it?) allow for overspeed warnings while within the stretch rather than just at the cameras? (Ash could get some more donations for providing this!).

Obviously if the distance is significant, and the speed limit discretionary % allowance is still used (is it?), AND speedos are 10% over, then 'drifting' above for a shortish distance wouldn't really be a problem, especially if there waas a warning when the limit was being exceeded.

Also, mikeprytherch, does your satnav display your speed and/or the current speed limit? One or both of these can help, and are more in your proper line of sight than the car's speedo is.
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[Froggy]

I wonder whether anyone in the corridors of power has considered that a far greater saving in terms of fuel consumption and carbon emissions would be the widespread rollout of "Smart Traffic Lights", which accurately sense the flow of traffic and - largely - ensure a smooth flow, fewer stops, less fuel wasted sitting at a red light with no other traffic in sight, not to mention the concomitant frustration. 2 or 3 sets have been installed recently near us and it makes a tremendous difference to the traffic flow.

As a cynic, I suspect that they are not rolled out more widely as they do not raise revenue...
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[mostdom]

Did they take into consideration all the new power stations and sutch that would have to be build to run these systems. If they are only going to save a miserley tonnage of carbon only to add to it in another way then why bother.

I suspect the responce would be "oh we forgot we had to power these things"!
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Dom

HERE LIES PND May it rest in peace.
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[DennisN]

[Gavinbat]

Hi,
Dennis... That's all well and good if you know you can do over 50 without getting a ticket. However most people don't and are spending more time looking at the speedo and not the road. Most vehicle operators on the roads today haven't got a clue about anything going on around them! (I don't call them drivers!)
Up to this post I didn't know what you could get away with, assuming your information is correct as "they" won't confirm it!
Yes, my car will quite happily sneek on a few mph when it feels like it. Having a powerful car doesn't mean you'll speed, I use my V6 for towing, I also run it on LPG.
Speedos are more like 5% inaccurate than 10% and different amounts at different speeds.
More to the point we're straying off the original topic somewhat...
My concern about these "clever" ideas is that the government/councils will just waste the money like they do now instead of using it to repair the roads.
No one talks about the enviromental damage caused by replacing and disposing all the worn out and damaged vehicle parts? Not to mention the extra fuel used...
Cheers,
Gavin
PS: I'm not trying to fuel a flaming war, just giving a different perspective.

[DennisN]

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