Tickets for 4km/h over the speed limit this Queens Birthday weekend

[Hinny]

Seriously, why are vehicles enabled to exceed the speed limit.
GPS controlled speed limiting devices are at the high end of control. Simple speed limiters would be as effective on the open road.
With this form of control we would anticipate a 2% decrease in the number of deaths on the road.
Some may say -"not worth it".
Obviously, this only applies to 'other unknown people' dying, or not.

[caseye]

LOL some bloody funny replies there gents.
Katman, yes it should be expected, the unfortunate thing is that good practice has never actually been taught here, so who the hell knows what is good or bad??
Positive repsonse to things done well, is the quickest way to get things done well repeatedly.

[Babelfish]

Hmm, imagine KB: "Yeah, I took off when the light went green and some arsehole cop pulled me over to tell me how good I was for not shooting through on the orange, who the hell does he think he is pulling me over when I hadn't done nothing wrong..."

I'd love to double my opportunity to whine about the rozzas, good thinking!

I cant believe the rozzas are still going for speed below 120. It wont make any difference up to that point...oh, other than the whole physics thing they force at us every night....stop here?.....or HERE? Spastic. If they spent as much time enforcing other things like keeping left unless passing, and driving common courtesy the road would be loads better. In fact, while I'm at it, they should be shooting fuckers who dont know what fog lights are.

Another example of an incompetent government organisation.

[86GSXR]

I went for a ride today and I may have seen 104 or so. I'm glad I didn't get nicked as I'd hate to think of more of my hard earned cash going towards politicians credit cards.

[BoristheBiter]

In fact, while I'm at it, they should be shooting fuckers who dont know what fog lights are.

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Fog lights, those lights on my splitter that are on all time.
Those ones???

[Madmax]

104km pull!(for fucks sake i could skate faster), im gone! outta there
No reg, (not paying ACC levie) im gone! outta there
bad rep! dont care

[doc]

Why should praise be expected for good driving practices?

Good driving practices should be expected.

Got to be some mid ground somewhere here. The old saying "Constant criticism destroys enthusiasm" Even going back to a warning for 5km over would be reasonable. 5% speedo error more about revenue because number of infringement at 10% dropping . I would guess.

[miloking]

To back up and give your claim, and give it some credibility, of the weather playing the biggest part in the record low road toll, can you please post the research you did on the weather for last years Queens Birthday weekend.

Can you post the same research to support claims that 4km/h tolerance this weekend contributed to the low road toll?????????? (because thats the same bullshit that NZ police is currently claiming via media)

[miloking]

Reminds me of the God debate. Is he real or is it fantasy.

Religious wackos (or power hungry manipulators... depending on your preference) wrote a fictional story about an imaginary god and his imaginary son. They then insisted that it was all for real and that we had to live by the made up Gods rules. Whenever anyone says that there is no proof that the story or gods rules are real and that it was all made up, the wackos respond with the challenge.... 'Prove it'.

Figures that those supporting fictional statistics would use the same lame fall back in their own defense. It simply serves to illustrate how piss weak the statistic ploy is.

Nice to see that Keys isn't so stupid as to give the bullshit claims any credibility.

Agreed, Christianfags are cancer of this planet anyway...

Kind of same with power/money hungry politicians....

[red mermaid]

No, because Im not sure that it did, however the original post claimed that the major factor was the weather and lack of traffic on the roads due to that.

For this to be correct that person would have to know what the weather was like last QB weekend, otherwise its another KB myth.

Can you post the same research to support claims that 4km/h tolerance this weekend contributed to the low road toll?????????? (because thats the same bullshit that NZ police is currently claiming via media)

[red mermaid]

So in other words, your post and its claim was just something you made up as you hit the keyboard.

No I haven't ,red and i aint gunna neither! So there.
My claim, as such, is simply that despite all that the Police and the media did, drivers concern for themselves and their passengers meant that either they did not go anywhere at all or they went there cautiously and with some care not to be caught doing more than 4 K's over the limit all the while taking into account the absolutely atrocious weather conditions experienced by most of the country.
Oh and of course despite their best attempts at hand on heart "we will not put cameras at the end of passing lanes, " THEY DID, as usual, they can't be trusted.
No research required for this one, I was out and about on Saturday and I saw this with myn own eyes, bastards. I don't mind being Policed, but I mind being fleeced so the damn Govt gets more dollars.
Afraid my experience of Policing in recent times has been marred by the belligerant, iHolier tha thou, I am the man, as opposed to the courteous, respectful officers I've dealt with in the past.
I give no offence nor disrespect to those officers I come into contact with and yet in the last two instances where I've had to address them it's been a fifty fifty call with one woman officer being a right pratt and getting put smartly back in her place by a much older and worldly wise citizen.The other ,again a woman officer, displayed the what I'd consder to be preferred manner and dealt with me and our discussion in a firm and frank way with no BS given or received. This officer was professional , cool calm and collected and proved to have a sense of humour and fair play.

[flyingcrocodile46]

That particular bit of statistical data is recorded and not difficult to access. Met Service charge a small fee to provide the data but it is available............ For all the good it is in isolation.

[red mermaid]

Thats right, it is one small factor in isolation but it was caseye (I think) who said it was the major factor, and now can't, and won't back up his claim.

[flyingcrocodile46]

Thats right, it is one small factor in isolation but it was caseye (I think) who said it was the major factor, and now can't, and won't back up his claim.

I would have thought that the weather history was pretty obvious to anyone that had a reasonable memory and yes while it is only one factor, It is in all likelihood the second biggest (and most easily verifiable) as.... if you apply a bit of common sense (as Caseye has) logic suggests that the number of vehicles on the road (The biggest bit of data.. not so easily verifiable) drops significantly (in holiday weekends) when shit weather is forecast. So his statement has a hell of a lot more credibility than the line of bullshit used to justify the move.

If the people following the line of reasoning have the nouse to do so... this is all pretty obvious stuff. Don't you guys have some sort of IQ threshold that you have to demonstrate?

[Jantar]

That particular bit of statistical data is recorded and not difficult to access. Met Service charge a small fee to provide the data but it is available............ For all the good it is in isolation.

Actually, its available for free at http://cliflo.niwa.co.nz/. There is a lot of data there in the form of rainfall, temperature etc for anywhere in new Zealand. And yes the weather was much worse over the whole country this year compared to last.