That I’m not going to speed just cos some dickheads are?

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Hello

I drive to work each day, on a mix of motorway and city roads. Shift work so always before 7am and after 8pm.

I drive within 2mph of the speed limit. The area I live and work in has one of the highest amounts of speed cameras, red light cameras and police cars doing speed checks in the UK. I have zero desire to get 3 points.

Yet now and again( often a taxi driver) honks at me, today I was going 51 in a 50, and had this prick up my tail, going on the horn.

AIBU to stick to the bloody speed limit ?

If I was going 35 in a 50 I’d get it but I go the limit.

Where does your assertion that here''s no confirmed case of anyone being done (points or a course) for 33 in a 30 - just a lot of tall tales come from?
You are welcome to prove me wrong with a suitably redacted example of an official UK speeding summons/ticket etc showing 33mph in a 30 limit.
Multiple sources have been asking people to substantiate their online claims to have been nicked for 33mph for several years - not one has shown up - unless you have the proof to the contrary?

I have noticed round here more than 50% of drivers seem to have no idea what's an appropriate stopping distance to leave. I thought maybe it was something do to with my driving or the fact my number plate makes it obvious I'm a woman (2nd hand care with personalised number plate - not my preference) but having paid more attention to how close cars are to other cars e.g. on the other side of the road it's just a general thing and not limited to me.

They seem to think the stopping distance for a 30mph zone is the same distance you should leave in NSL zones. It's bloody scary when I have the kids in the car.

And, yes, the advice I've always been given is to gently slow down if being tailgated since they've made you less safe by removing/reducing the stopping distance behind you so you need to allow yourself more reaction time and decrease the speed at which they could hit you. The fact it also pisses them off is a happy coincidence...

And I don't know why MNers are so obsessed with speedometers being wrong. Some might be, but I'd be surprised if the most modern cars weren't pretty accurate.

They’re deliberately set with a tolerance.

The idiot tailgating me around very narrow twisting lanes an hour ago has apparently put his car through a hedge, down a bank into a field minutes after I turned off! He also wiped out a telegraph pole and a length of cotswold stone wall.
Karma does exist!

(Neighbour just came in, told us about the road being closed on edge of the village and described the car 😊. He’s not hurt.)

And I don't know why MNers are so obsessed with speedometers being wrong. Some might be, but I'd be surprised if the most modern cars weren't pretty accurate.

They are required by law to show a speed between the actual speed and one 10% faster, so that a person relying on them will be travelling no faster and up to 10% slower than they think they are.

In my previous car it was wrong by exatly 10%, so I would set my cruise control at 55 in a 50 zone and the Sat Nav would show my speed as 50. My current car is wrong by 5%, so I would set it to 52 and may Sat Nav would show 49.

@YanTanTethera123

The idiot tailgating me around very narrow twisting lanes an hour ago has apparently put his car through a hedge, down a bank into a field minutes after I turned off! He also wiped out a telegraph pole and a length of cotswold stone wall. Karma does exist!

(Neighbour just came in, told us about the road being closed on edge of the village and described the car 😊. He’s not hurt.)

Bet he won’t do that again in a hurry! 😀

@NavigatingAdolescence

And I don't know why MNers are so obsessed with speedometers being wrong. Some might be, but I'd be surprised if the most modern cars weren't pretty accurate.

They’re deliberately set with a tolerance.

They are pretty accurate - but they deliberately consistently show a higher speed than actual.

Yes, I know what the error gap is on my Speedo from using Waze so I know that I need to hit 43 to be going at 40. But if some moron tailgates me I slow down a little. Drives DH nuts - but then he’s a tailgater so I am totally unrepentant.
I’m a confident driver so they don’t unnerve me. I don’t brake but just ease off down to 40 on the Speedo which must mean about 37 and continue steadily on my way.

If you were doing 42 in a 30 limit you'd be lucky not to get banned, it wouldn't be a speed awareness course. More than 10 miles over the limit and you'd be in deep trouble.

Total crap. 42mph is the upper limit of a speed awareness course in a 30mph limit. 43-50 will get you a 3pts/£100 fixed penalty and over 50 will earn you a summons but still no guarantee of a ban. Getting caught at 42 is barely a slap on the wrist.

@Shade17

If you were doing 42 in a 30 limit you'd be lucky not to get banned, it wouldn't be a speed awareness course. More than 10 miles over the limit and you'd be in deep trouble.

Total crap. 42mph is the upper limit of a speed awareness course in a 30mph limit. 43-50 will get you a 3pts/£100 fixed penalty and over 50 will earn you a summons but still no guarantee of a ban. Getting caught at 42 is barely a slap on the wrist.

Yeah this is shit.

I got an SP30 for being over 40 in a 30mph. Was six years ago now so I forget how much exactly, but it was definitely over 40!

@ViewFromHalfway

I have noticed round here more than 50% of drivers seem to have no idea what's an appropriate stopping distance to leave. I thought maybe it was something do to with my driving or the fact my number plate makes it obvious I'm a woman (2nd hand care with personalised number plate - not my preference) but having paid more attention to how close cars are to other cars e.g. on the other side of the road it's just a general thing and not limited to me.

They seem to think the stopping distance for a 30mph zone is the same distance you should leave in NSL zones. It's bloody scary when I have the kids in the car.

And, yes, the advice I've always been given is to gently slow down if being tailgated since they've made you less safe by removing/reducing the stopping distance behind you so you need to allow yourself more reaction time and decrease the speed at which they could hit you. The fact it also pisses them off is a happy coincidence...

Well said!

This happens to me sometimes too. I drive either at the speed limit or a couple of miles an hour under. Nothing worse than when someone is right up your backside/beeping at you. If they want the points they can have them, there is no need to abuse me in the process.