01-09-2013, 08:41 PM
But the limit is 60. Not the compulsory speed.
To spin it on its head, if you overtake and hit 80, you'd have a closing speed on an oncoming car of anything up to 160mph assuming they're also speeding. You're supposed to overtake when safe to do so, safe doesn't mean speeding. You overtaking someone doing 45mph does nothing for the flow of traffic at all, as the person travelling at 45mph is doing the speed they feel safe to do, and you speeding to overtake does nothing to make the journey safer.
And flow on a motorway? If someone's pinging the limiter at 70, as are all the new cars around them, there's a middle lane they could comfortably sit in, they could still overtake lorries and other slow moving traffic, and the wank who wants to hit 85mph has a lane all to himself. Well, until someone doing 100mph hoons up behind them, then they've got to move out the way, slow down to filter into the cars doing 70mph, and then accelerate to get up to speed again. They're the issue here, not the new cars. As said already, constant speed is not an issue. People darting in and out of lanes, and accelerating and decelerating by 20-30mph are the hazard.
I drive my van on motorways daily and it's limited to 70mph. Can't say in any way that I feel any more of a risk than I would doing 70mph in my derestricted car. Not at all.
To spin it on its head, if you overtake and hit 80, you'd have a closing speed on an oncoming car of anything up to 160mph assuming they're also speeding. You're supposed to overtake when safe to do so, safe doesn't mean speeding. You overtaking someone doing 45mph does nothing for the flow of traffic at all, as the person travelling at 45mph is doing the speed they feel safe to do, and you speeding to overtake does nothing to make the journey safer.
And flow on a motorway? If someone's pinging the limiter at 70, as are all the new cars around them, there's a middle lane they could comfortably sit in, they could still overtake lorries and other slow moving traffic, and the wank who wants to hit 85mph has a lane all to himself. Well, until someone doing 100mph hoons up behind them, then they've got to move out the way, slow down to filter into the cars doing 70mph, and then accelerate to get up to speed again. They're the issue here, not the new cars. As said already, constant speed is not an issue. People darting in and out of lanes, and accelerating and decelerating by 20-30mph are the hazard.
I drive my van on motorways daily and it's limited to 70mph. Can't say in any way that I feel any more of a risk than I would doing 70mph in my derestricted car. Not at all.
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