Assist in what?
Submitted by LivarandSofie on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 15:26In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Italy has average speed
Submitted by adriatica on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 17:27In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Italy has average speed systems on most of its motorways now ...cannot remember the name... anyway imbedded tracking systems that calculate average speed over a certain distance... and they are pretty common... the fine gets sent to you... they dont need to stop you...basically i agree with the above post...whats the point... you gain pretty well nothing by doing even 30-40 kmph over the limit... ok if you are travelling through the night with no traffic and your car and your wallet can handle plus 100 kmph... you'll gain... but most cars are not capable of that ...even less the drivers....in my youth i used to drive for an australian camping tour company.... taking generally Aussies around europe... did it for a few years... we had these dutch mercedes coaches... with bleepers that went off when you reached rev limits.. around the 110 kmph... so over the speed limit by 10 kmph... normal coaches were limited to 90... but we had electronic braking systems that allowed the coach to go leaglly to 100... all very boring ... the point is that travelling down say from Calais to Nice you would get overtaken several times by the same cars.... and eventually in the late afternoon you might even see them at the toll booth as you ended the motorway part.. now you couldnt go faster than 110... but they had been doing white knuckled journeys... heavely breaking when some idoit following the speed limit pulled out in front,... stops for fuel... and fearful glances at all parked cars in case they were hiding speed cameras... only to pay fines anyway because as alan rightly said in another post even back then they had average speed systems in france... so whats the point... i set the car to do 135 here.. turn music on ...sit back and relax and arrive wherever quite happily and not a drop of sweat... those that blast past look like they are trying to tear the steering wheel off the column...and the way they grit their teeth suggest sto me that a dentist visit to renew the plates will be soon in the offing...speed kills
Dont think alans advicating
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 10:19In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Dont think alans advicating speeding merely pionting out some of the helpfull sites on the web.Mind you given all of those different sites and how many notes one would have to make to actually keep informed, it would make sence to actually buy a sat nav, not actually expensive anymore.Be aware its illegal to have swiss speed camera locations on one of those sat navs. But eitherway why does "hooligans" come into it.. I don't know, Why is there always one!