Select to expand quoteChris6791 said..dinsdale said..Kamikuza said..
You just figured that out?
They're handing out tickets for 4kph over the limit in NZ now - I'm guessing that people have slowed down so much that the normal level of tolerance isn't generating enough profit. Pretty sure there'll come a time when all the limits will be dropped as nobody is speeding and yet there are still fatalities on the road 
I got done for 42kph in a 40 zone (NOT a school zone) in Vic Park recently.
I'm calling that as BS but I'm happy to be proven wrong if you have some evidence? I don't know any cops that would stop a car for 4 km over, let along write a ticket for 2 over once the 2km tolerance is applied.
Just as a point of interest I got pulled over LAST week , my speedo reads 100kmph when I am doing 98!! but the noddy said I was just over, that, I call BS , but I let him have his rant , he checked the car and trailor and was on his way . I think sometimes they are just on the look out for something else. We were on The Great Northern Highway 100s of k's from anywhere, maybe bored?
Select to expand quoteyoungbull said..Chilla said..
Speeding is speeding. Police are just doing their job.
Why red thumb its true.
They do not make the rules, they just follows them. Blame the other muppets, Blame us we are so powerful as a whole - however we
are all so independent it's stupid. Whatever chance we had to do something about the police or governments went out the doors last century
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Not to mention how racism is rearing its head back up because people are just to flaming sensitive about pissy little words.
If Australian's as a whole put as much effort into road policies as the few did sharks(either side of the fence), we would have a chance to change anything.
But we wont.
everyone knows that the police justify positions through revenue
less revenue less cops means less revenue and less cops
It would be interesting to have open speed limit week and check the statistics
I'll bet there would be a slight reduction in fatalities....
but there would be a carresponding reduction in police funding which is what speed limits really protect...
Go NT for reviewing the 130 zones :)
Kamakuza asked me "but are you really trying to tell me that driving at 49 instead of 51 is going to magically make things better? "
Well all things being equal, reaction time, tyres, brakes etc, when the car doing 49 kph comes to a stop the car that was doing 51 will pass that point at sqrt( 51^2 - 49^2) = sqrt 200 = 14 kph. Not a high impact speed but enough to pin a drunk under the front wheels. If the car doing 49 kph hits a drunk pedestrian at say 25 kph, the car doing 51 kph would run through that same position at sqrt( 25^2 + 200) = 28.7 kph. Wouild you rather be hit at 25 kph or 28.7 kph?
(I haven't allowed for reaction time in these calcs, but with equal reaction times the faster car is slightly closer to the unfortunate victim, which will raise the differences in impact speeds a little. The calcs also assume deceleration rates under brakes is constant with speed )
Select to expand quoteCassa said..Chris6791 said..dinsdale said..Kamikuza said..
You just figured that out?
They're handing out tickets for 4kph over the limit in NZ now - I'm guessing that people have slowed down so much that the normal level of tolerance isn't generating enough profit. Pretty sure there'll come a time when all the limits will be dropped as nobody is speeding and yet there are still fatalities on the road
I got done for 42kph in a 40 zone (NOT a school zone) in Vic Park recently.
I'm calling that as BS but I'm happy to be proven wrong if you have some evidence? I don't know any cops that would stop a car for 4 km over, let along write a ticket for 2 over once the 2km tolerance is applied.
Just as a point of interest I got pulled over LAST week , my speedo reads 100kmph when I am doing 98!! but the noddy said I was just over, that, I call BS , but I let him have his rant , he checked the car and trailor and was on his way . I think sometimes they are just on the look out for something else. We were on The Great Northern Highway 100s of k's from anywhere, maybe bored?
I think this is the case when there isnt much happening.
