I just got pulled over for doing 32 in a 30

Legislation says speedos can over read up to 10% but 0% under.

Tyre wear or changing the make of tyre can alter what the speedo reads. Brand new tyres will read slower than well worn ones,

At least the officer had discretion and didn't issue a ticket.

It's still likely females will be pulled over by male officers, female police are still in the minority, so how do they get around that?

There used to be articles about one day there being 'average speed check cameras' on all roads. It hasn't come to that yet but if they really wanted to, I'm sure they could do that through GPS. Maybe one day that will happen.

I stick to the speed limit, although yes sometimes I realise I've mistakenly gone a few MPH faster than the limit. My cruise control won't do 20. I'm fed up of irate drivers, when you are sticking to the limit behind you, they can't always overtake.

There's a 30 by me on the road where DC gets the bus and has a lot of children waiting. Some drivers tear up it, I would say more near 40. I wonder if these drivers are ever caught - I've never seen a speed trap/monitor in all the time I've lived here.

Driving home at 4 am from the airport last time, on an uneventful Tuesday morning not a soul around, it did feel weird doing 20 MPH as that was what the law is. Maybe they should have more variable speed limits depending on time of day etc, a bit like they do on motorways.

I had to do a course for 32mph

However it was a camera that got me not a person so maybe people are more reasonable and just give a warning, like the OPs did.

Must say it cincentrated my mind on not doing it again!

I was once told that the police will pull a driver over for the teeniest, tiniest thing if they suspect something else.

I've friends in the police and they always used to say 10% plus 2 MPH over the limit for pulling people. Not sure that applies anymore.

I always thought cars overstated speed by 2 MPH,.

I think the difference is that most people would hold their hands up and call it a fair cop, apologise if it was unintentional, and then try harder not to do it again....

Pretty much the opposite attitude to OP's

The current speed limit is so often incorrect it’s practically useless.

Good point actually

It pops up in every circumstance these days.

Is there a Covid equivalent of Godwin’s Law?

@dialdrunkforyou

I like your username 😁

Ooh, that sounds like a fun half term activity to keep the kids entertained, thanks for the suggestion.

Google Maps has a feature that shows your current speed and the current speed limit. Useful!

Oh for god’s sake.

Triggered

No I’m not. You’ve just been grubbing around trying to make a point. And you’ve failed.

Don’t be so foolish.

You’re avoiding accountability for the contradictory comments you’ve made on this thread.

This is just not true.

I was going to say YANBU but having read your posts you sound utterly entitled, and BU.

You admit you were over the speed limit with a police car right behind you? What did you expect? What kind of message would it give if the copper ignored you?

You didn't even get a ticket so if I was you I'd be thinking I'd had a lucky escape, not bitching about the police doing their jobs.

The speed limit isn't conditional on the weather, the gradient or how much of a great driver you think you are.

No, it didn’t. Every speedo is calibrated to show over. You would have been going at least 35 on your car to flag as 32.

Pay more attention and don’t let your speed creep up.

Overkill - unless we’re in cars that have limiters were in danger of gluing our eyes to the speedometer instead of keeping them on the road.

Tell you what then, let's drive defensively and within the law and keep our fingers crossed that everyone else will. Oh, or maybe we'll come across OP and her like.

However if the driver had being doing 30 (the speed limit) the posters sil would have likely survived.

Surely you can infer from that information that the speed limit is there for a reason, to reduce deaths.
Yes if the driving had been looking she would not have been hit, but if the driver had not been driving over the speed limit she would likely have lived.

You were speeding you got caught, tough luck, try to do better next time and not speed

You say that ... but when they first came out, there was a rather unhealthy obsession with how much wonderful data they could deliver that could be flogged to marketing firms. I mean 14 Tb* of data has to have some hidden gems in it right ?

The only problem with that genius idea was that the people who tended to use black boxes (telematics) weren't the millionaires you'd need for such ad-flinging.

Also all new cars are quietly logging that data whether you know or not.

14Tb - 14 Terabytes or 14000 Gigabytes. A lot of disk drives !

The law's black and white. You were doing over the speed limit.

Having watched too much Police Interceptors he was probably hoping there was something else and quite possibly might have been. Shaking seems a bit extreme so was there something else or are you just a bit of a drama queen?

Black boxes are used for the driver to work with the insurer to reduce their premiums. Nothing to do with 1984.