Thread: Hoon caught doing 170 in 100 zone.

Originally Posted by hoadie72

Did it make you feel more of a man?

what the hell LOL !!!! I done it because i love speed not to make myself feel like a man . The guide posts on the side of the road looked like a picket fence have only done that the once . Still yet to find anything as fun as a sprintcar sideways at a 110 mph

Originally Posted by jbarracl

Sorry if that sounded a bit personal but the fact is that driving above the speed limit for some drivers and some cars is dangerous and the cops cant go around filtering out who can and who cant speed. I spend all day on the roads and think that the current speed limits are quite ok for everyone to get around safely.
Just remember that travelling at 120kph in a 100kph zone is an extra 20% above the speed limit and so therefore would take you an extra 20% of time to stop in an emergency, that could be the difference between life and death.

Your physics is wrong, but by the same token does that mean that we should all be walking to be safe?

Driving at 40kmh is more dangerous, and again at 60, likewise 70, 80, 90, 100 and 110 but there is no point in have a 40km/h speed limit on an open freeway because it will take longer to stop at 60km/h. I think that there needs to be some type of consideration to the actual environment and appropriate speed limits set rather than blanket decisions - even if speed limits are variable.

NT had open speed limits in certain areas so that the drivers could make decisions on what is appropriate for them and even when they relented to pressure to enforce a speed limit they only dropped it to 130km/h. At that speed my Discovery felt fine and I didn't feel like there was any more danger than at 100km/h which is what I typically cruise at around home (NSW). Pre 130km/h limits I sat on 160km/h for a brief period and it was fast but fine, the sad thing is that there are many sections of road in NSW that are as good as those sections of road in the NT that had open limits and now 130km/h, but the NSW roads are rated to 100 or 110km/h.

None of this is to condone speeding - something that only series drivers never do.

Originally Posted by Sleepy

170kmh is too fast on a public road.

• No excuses.
• No "what ifs".
• No "age differences".
• No "reaction times".
• No "it's ok on an open road"
• No " it's a GTISXRXUi -1 (Limtied) Sports model".
• No "I know what I'm doing".
• No "I'm having some fun."

It's just to damn fast and you will kill someone - probably yourself.

i had one of them GTISXRXUi's . Went like the clappers too . i have a pic of it ......

Originally Posted by Fusion

i had one of them GTISXRXUi's . Went like the clappers too . i have a pic of it ......

I wonder if those hubcaps are from Trival Pursuit - Kids edition.

Originally Posted by Fusion

i had one of them GTISXRXUi's . Went like the clappers too . i have a pic of it ......

Hang on that's left hand drive. Is that the NAS version?

Originally Posted by jbarracl

Just remember that travelling at 120kph in a 100kph zone is an extra 20% above the speed limit and so therefore would take you an extra 20% of time to stop in an emergency, that could be the difference between life and death.

You'd travel another seven metres in the second between identifying the need to brake, before planting the foot on the brake, doing 120 instead of 100. You'd then need another 25.61 metres before coming to a complete stop. The stopping distance is increased by 33%.

I drove in the Northern Territory for 25 years with no speed limits working for vairious comanies we regularly travelled between 190 and 215 km/h
The NT Govt introduced speed limits a couple of years ago and the road toll went up 40%.
I am not an advocate of irresponsible driving or speeding but mentioning speeds over 100 km/h in some states is like molesting children or speaking against global warming.
Speeding is not appropriate but travelling at high speeds does not kill people like the pundits would have us believe

Originally Posted by Sleepy

Hang on that's left hand drive. Is that the NAS version?

thats a pic from when i first bought it. 4 very dodgy blokes they were . had it converted to right hand drive once delivered .