This is where the automated car comes in handy. It will "know" where all these changes are.
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This is where the automated car comes in handy. It will "know" where all these changes are.
Like my recently updated satnav knows where the speed changes are?Quote:
Originally Posted by trog
Ha. Good luck with that.
Sarcasm my friend. There should be a font to highlight this. Gps in the work ute shows the speed on the gateway bridge 70kmh. Quite a few other glaring discrepancies plus and minus posted limits. Very annoying when it pings an excess speed , but I am not allowed to turn it off. Stereo up loud and a diligent eye on the road , gauges keeps me in check
On my last trip through the Kimberley and Pilbara my GPS kept giving me distances to road junctions. At least a dozen times on long straight roads, the GPS showed a zigzag in the road ahead where obviously the data files did not match up. Speed zones were/are totally out of whack too and for casual reference only.
My old Tom Tom with Jeremy Clarkson berating me every few minutes telling my how terribly I was driving was actually an excellent GPS. Too bad it crapped itself a year out of warranty after the motherboard fried itself. Loved that GPS!
RORS you are either being deliberately obtuse, insulting, or maybe (and I hope this is the case....) you simply missed the point.
Tests show, and a sensible person knows, that multitasking is not an infinite resource. You can not argue otherwise.
Simple fact is that if you need to spend a bigger percentage of your attention overly watching your speed, then something has to suffer. A wise driver will, of course, ensure that no critical item suffers.
Now none of us said we couldn't manage our driving to pay attention to all that is required... we simply said that we begrudge the unnecessary nitpicking of ensuring your not even 1 kph over while doing everything else required.
That portion of our attention could have been more profitably allocated to better awareness of the overall situation. The moments I spend in glancing down I could have instead been looking ahead.
Before you leap in... yes I always look ahead... I could do more of it if I didn't need to look down as much.
I'm sure if you reflect on that, you could see that nitpicking speeds to the level of one kph is counterproductive... as the articles' tests demonstrate.
It's not helpful to infer people shouldn't be driving simply because they disagree with an enforcement policy. I'm assuming you just shot from the hip and didn't mean offence.
I have just been told of another mate who has been booked in QLD for doing 107 in a 100 km zone. that has been 2 in 2 months, on country roads in daytime good conditions.
One of them tried to argue it but cop said speed limits are there for a reason.
I say, what is safer? 120km/h on fine day on deserted country roads or 100km/h on a dark stormy night with a heap of traffic around? one is breaking the law the other is dangerous but legal.
I regularly do a 7hr ride in rural QLD and would love to be able to up speed to what I consider safe and turn it into a 6 hr ride and get home before the roo's come out.
Riding near Inverell after dark once I had to drop to 30km/h and still got hit by roo's passing me to hop up the road in the lights I provided :(
I'm off topic Albert but I found that very wide spread yellow fog lights would stop the roos jumping from dark into the tunnel of light ahead of me. So wide beams paired with conventional spotlights gave a much better result. YMMV.
Cruise control is king! Having said that, I got pinged at 106 in a 100 zone on a slight down hill in good weather with no other vehicles in sight. My first fine in 30 years. It's not a question of if, but when. A bit like tax, paid parking & death, all unavoidable.
I'm told police speed radar in Qld is set to assume a 3 km/h margin of error, so that's apparently what the cops think can be defended in court i.e. in a 100 km/h zone the radar won't go off unless you do 104 km/h.
All GPS's are inaccurate by varying amounts anyhow and the whole GPS system needs regular recalibration because Australia is moving north, as was discussed in this thread: http://www.aulro.com/afvb/gps/238975...all-wrong.html
GPS system doesn't need recalibration..
The mapping datum does [emoji6]
We're currently out about 1.7mtrs. Although civilian GPS without DGPS is 5-10mtrs at best