Fnaar
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- Location
- Thumberland
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Stephenite
Membå
- Location
- OslO
Does your cruise-control work at such low speeds? Mine isn't reliable at all at low speed.
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
Yeah I've seen those. Crazy.
Maybe people just don't obey laws regardless of circumstances and the "rushing around due to work pressures" would become "rushing around just because..."
Levo-Lon
Guru
I tend to use limiter, as cruise is a bit more dangerous in the braking sense.
Speed limiter keeps you below the limit and feet on the pedals..
In my van 30mph is 4th gear with the accelerator just on
oldfatfool
Guru
Cruise works fine from approx 15 mph. Verified by gps.
This is the state of speeding in my village - sent this to he Police and they weren't bothered:
View: https://youtu.be/nLWUvLuYhRA
We have them guys in the Hi Viz now and again but I haven't seen them for ages. I wish NYP & NYCC would just install a bloody speed camera.
OP
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I have to say if that music was playing in the village I'd speed to get out of there
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
The BMW behind me this morning obviously thought all speed limits were too low. I could have saved petrol and have him shunt me to work.
Also he was doing the fashionable 'butch pose' of driving with his elbow on the door and chewing the backs of his fingers while driving with his left hand on the right side of wheel. Our youngest says you have to look as though driving is no effort in order to have street cred - hence all the limp wrist steering, reclining below dashboard level etc.
We'll have fights breaking out in the streets over who has priority next.
Also he was doing the fashionable 'butch pose' of driving with his elbow on the door and chewing the backs of his fingers while driving with his left hand on the right side of wheel. Our youngest says you have to look as though driving is no effort in order to have street cred - hence all the limp wrist steering, reclining below dashboard level etc.
We'll have fights breaking out in the streets over who has priority next.
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Deleted member 26715
Guest
We have that already don't we?
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
Round here it's SUV's playing might is right, they don't get out of their tin boxes yet
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
They do seem to bring out the worst in some people.Round here it's SUV's playing might is right, they don't get out of their tin boxes yet
I always remember one on my former car commute, a white Volvo XC. He frequently used to hammer up behind cars, sit on their tailgate then rocket off. He did this to me once and as soon as we got to a 30mph limit in a village, he ipened it up and rocketed past maybe 6 cars, he must have been doing 60...in a 30.
I just hope he gets his one day....and he probably will.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I tend to use my eyes, and coordinate then other controls on the basis of what the eyes see. It ain't difficult, and if someone can't consistently manage something so basic, so simple, so fundamental, as properly controlling their velocity then one must call into question their fitness to be on the roads at all.
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
That's also quite common around Penistone. The Manchester road between Thurgoland and Flouch/Woodhead is good for 90mph in some people's eyes. The signs on the roundabouts are flattened on a weekly basis. Any 30 limits along the way are immaterial - unless of course there's an empty box speed camera.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Am i missing something here? Are you saying you were wrongly recorded by a machine and you weren't really doing 132 mph,or are you telling us you were doing 132 mph in a 30 mph zone and you think that's something to boast about?I got clocked at 132 mph in a 30 mph zone in 1994.
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