17-07-2011, 15:06
Hi Kate,
They deal with speed as a percentage of the speed limit - they base it on 30 mph over 70 being a ban then proportion that to all speed limits - so as the speed gets lower the band gets narrower.
Speed cameras are a huge problem as there are no stages of grey. If that had been PC Plod chances are you would either not have been pulled or pulled and told off rather than fined.
The government and several safety groups seem to have got it in their heads that speed kills and as such instead of employing more police and highway patrols to educate people and prevent bad/dangerous driving they have opted to go the cheaper and higher earning route of speed cameras. My argument that doing 90 mph at 04.00am on the M5 will not kill anyone but doing the same at 09.00am will probably. But the problem there is not the speed but the decision of the driver to speed -bad or dangerous driving in my books.
I really hope you enjoy the course and get something out of it - and the reason I say that is that I am one of few people who carry on with driver training after taking their test. Most people take their test, read the highway code for that test then never read it again. Yet laws change, the highway code is updated and people forget things. We are not allowed to do this in industry for things like forklifts, crop sprayers, MEWPS - compulsory retrain and retest every 3 years. What has more potential for serious public injury - a car being driven on the A40 through Oxford at speed or a forklift being driven in a warehouse at the edge of the A40?
I'm going to get off my soapbox now- I really feel passionately about this probably something about doing 60,000 miles a year on public roads and motorcycling into the bargain.
Kate - this is not a dig at you either just something I needed to vent!
They deal with speed as a percentage of the speed limit - they base it on 30 mph over 70 being a ban then proportion that to all speed limits - so as the speed gets lower the band gets narrower.
Speed cameras are a huge problem as there are no stages of grey. If that had been PC Plod chances are you would either not have been pulled or pulled and told off rather than fined.
The government and several safety groups seem to have got it in their heads that speed kills and as such instead of employing more police and highway patrols to educate people and prevent bad/dangerous driving they have opted to go the cheaper and higher earning route of speed cameras. My argument that doing 90 mph at 04.00am on the M5 will not kill anyone but doing the same at 09.00am will probably. But the problem there is not the speed but the decision of the driver to speed -bad or dangerous driving in my books.
I really hope you enjoy the course and get something out of it - and the reason I say that is that I am one of few people who carry on with driver training after taking their test. Most people take their test, read the highway code for that test then never read it again. Yet laws change, the highway code is updated and people forget things. We are not allowed to do this in industry for things like forklifts, crop sprayers, MEWPS - compulsory retrain and retest every 3 years. What has more potential for serious public injury - a car being driven on the A40 through Oxford at speed or a forklift being driven in a warehouse at the edge of the A40?
I'm going to get off my soapbox now- I really feel passionately about this probably something about doing 60,000 miles a year on public roads and motorcycling into the bargain.
Kate - this is not a dig at you either just something I needed to vent!
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