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I would be really surprised if I was flashed at doing less than 85 mph
on the motorway. I just go along with the flow and it's generally 80 to 85. As you said, it's possible the Gatso's are set up to not run out of film. I do remember right after the petrol crisis, there were a lot of cars barrelling at over 100 mph because they knew all the Gatso's were out of film! |
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Brimstone wrote:
[...traffic at 90-95mph...] > It's common to see cars travelling at that speed all over the country. ....endangering nothing but respect for the law. A -- Trade Oil in € |
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Brimstone wrote:
> Which is simply because US cars are slower. I drive a 98 Honda Civic with a 1.2 liter engine. And I live at 5000 feet, so due to the altitude the engine only makes about 80-85% of the power it'd make a sea level. And the car will easily go 95 here. I'm guessing 99% (or more) of the cars sold in the U.S. today will do 100mph. Rich |
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Brimstone ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying : > (BTW - it was a bit of gentle micky taking so that seem like a double > WOOSH. May I refer the honourable gentleman to the time of a Friday night it was posted, and the state of the wine bottle next to my laptop? |
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Adrian wrote:
> Brimstone ) gurgled happily, sounding much like > they were saying : > >> (BTW - it was a bit of gentle micky taking so that seem like a double >> WOOSH. > > May I refer the honourable gentleman to the time of a Friday night it > was posted, and > the state of the wine bottle next to my laptop? Not full? |
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Brimstone ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying : >> the state of the wine bottle next to my laptop? > Not full? In the recycling box now. |
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fbloogyudsr wrote:
> > Hard to believe that doing 85 in AZ (or MT, many places in CA, and > other western states) gets you arrested. 85-90 is the normal/85% > speed on rural interstates there. I've driven 85 from Phoenix to > Flagstaff on I15, 85-90 on I5 in the San Joaquin valley; the only > thing the cops touch are the truckers. > I used to regularly drive all over the US at 65-80mph just keeping up with the traffic when the national limit was still 55mph. On the Boston-NY run it was like lions and a herd of wilderbeest. You would be in a big pack of traffic rolling at 85mph and suddenly in the middle of it a set of blue light would start flashing and one of the pack would be pulled over while the rest thundered on unslowed. -- Tony "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers) |
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Wiggums wrote:
> > I am in Orange County where the posted limit is 65, but everybody does > 75 to 80. Police enforcement here is noticeably lower than that of the > UK. On UK motorways, I have gone past speed cameras at 15 mph above > the limit, and there was no flash from the Gatso cameras. On the M4 to > London, I can say with certainty it's well less than half of the cars > complying with the limit and roughly 2 percent exceeding 90, probably > to beat the queue (traffic). When the M4 turns into A4, compliance > increases. It seems cameras on the A4 are more trigger-happy. > There are three variants on the state of Gatsos. Some are switched off, some are active with no film and some are fully active. They move them round and rely on the fact motorists do not know which is which to make them all effective. On the M25 roadworks people are over compliant at the camera points and not elsewhere, traffic allowing. -- Tony "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers) |
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In article .com>,
Wiggums > wrote: >between 80 to 90 mph. I have seen many cars hitting 100 mph in the >U.K. especially at nights. You will never see that anywhere in the >United States. ROTFL. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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Adrian wrote:
> Next cheapest in the US Ford range is the soddin' 4.0 Mustang, then > 3.0 v6 Taurus - which is *HYOOOOGE* by UK standards. I refer the Hon. Gentleman to exhibit A - this being the V6 Fnord Mousestang I rented in Leftpondia last year. 0-60 eventually, Vmax about 110 indicated. They don't do "efficiciemcy" Over There. -- Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/> A *National* Socialist Government did you say, Mr. Chaplin? |
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