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Joined: Sep 06, 2006 Posts: 1618 Location: East Hertfordshire
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:15 am Post subject:
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I often find myself in areas or turn into country roads when I'm not 100% sure what the limit is until I see a sign.
I'm sure you know, but for 30 you need either a 30mph sign OR lamp posts closish together (can't remember the exact distance, and anyway, don't normally have my tape measure with me !
If you don't have that then it's down to the national limits for single and dual/motorway roads. Unless of course, there IS a sign but you don't spot it !
If your Sony DOES have speed limit info, place it more in your line of sight (carefully!) - as I said earlier, if you're reasonably observant, there won't be many occasions where you might get caught out, by no signs AND duff speed limit info.
Of course, you could also say to your bosses that you believe that their speed limit data will sometimes be wrong, and could you have a journey logger to record what speed you were ACTUALLY doing, such as a RoadHawk (though from what you have posted, I'm not sure whether that is you ideal solution ). _________________ David
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Joined: Dec 27, 2006 Posts: 998 Location: South Lincs, UK.
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:55 pm Post subject:
A previous employer of mine tried a similar system on their fleet of vans.
The map data was not accurate enough to give them useful reports, they received masses of data each week saying that every vehicle was breaking the speed limits at some point in the day. This was due to errors in the map data.
The employer did not advertise the fact that the system they had installed was effectively useless at monitoring speeding. They relied on fear of the system amongst drivers to keep road speeds down.
The van users who tried to use standard car TomTom's to give an over speed warning soon discovered that the TomTom does not give an audible warning for the lower speed limits which apply to vans.
I expect that the employer in this case will quietly give up on trying to act on the inaccurate data. Perhaps they should concentrate on designing extendible hoses that don't keep breaking! _________________ Paul
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:20 pm Post subject:
pcaouolte wrote:
Perhaps they should concentrate on designing extendible hoses that don't keep breaking!
And ones that are as flexible and extendible as the original ones thay made. Or perhaps they have made them pretty much unusable now as they used to keep on breaking
..... or make sure the next fleet of vans they buy have Cruise Control. Not so useful around town but a real boon out and about. Set it once and more or less forget about it. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
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