Police getting tougher on speed tolerance

[unstuck]

Typical, assume your the one in the right and know enough to judge. God help us...

Yep, I was right.

[pritch]

JEEZ 2 POPOS ON AT THE SAME TIME? SHOULDNT YOU BE OUT GETTING REVENUE

Winja? Where have you been?

[Murray]

Will they be on the streets or on the roads????

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...cut-open-hours

[unstuck]

Will they be on the streets or on the roads????

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...cut-open-hours

Gore cop shop has been like that for years.
You have to press the button and talk to someone in Invergiggle, even if you can see the cops in the station.

[BlackSheepLogic]

Just sold my 2003 Holden Commodore Ute that read low. Weird, because as far as I knew, things like wheels were all factory. It was about 2-4kph low at any given speed. Re-inforced my opinion of checking every vehicle with GPS to make sure I knew where I stood.

In the US market the clock can be +/- 10%, however for liability reasons most if not all manufactures in that market won't read less than the speed the vehicle is actually traveling at.

For Europe under UNECU regulations a speedometer must never show a speed less than that which the vehicle is traveling and must not read a speed >10 of the actual speed. Th UK also adopted these regulations and so did Australia.

I don't have at hand the NZ regulations regarding accuracy, however I'm pretty sure the LTSA considers cars imported into this country meet international standards and therefore a 1Km/h tolerance is reasonable since any car built to international standards won't report a speed lower than it actually is traveling as manufactured.

I'm obviously a little bit off in when these standards were set but I'm pretty sure these standards did not come into play yesterday.

Also, to a point mentioned by someone regarding speedometer inaccuracy as the tyre wears. That's true but that would cause the clock to show an indicated higher speed than when the tyre is new (i.e. each revelation of the wheels is traveling less distance).

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Geees you wern't at the front when they were handing out smarts, eh?

Should've been a cop then aye

[JimmyC]

My biggest issue with these lower tolerances over the holiday period is witnessing what Joe Muppet does when passing a police car or even just a van parked on the side of the road. They're only doing between 90 and 95 indicated speed anyway, yet they STILL put the brakes on going down to 80 and 85 in a 100kmph zone. It's just madness...

[awa355]

I would have thought that it has been possible for all cars within the last 5 years to have had a GPS type speedo fitted. As for the manufacturers making the speedos reading fast, I dont see it as their responsibility to compensate for driver decisions regarding how fast they choose to drive.

Infact I'm suprised that in the land of lawyers, someone hasn't sued GM or Ford for selling him a car that reads 150mph "and I was really only doing 143mph your Honour".

[imdying]

Hypocrisy????

Yeah yeah, I know, you weren't doing anybody else any harm, there's no victim, why should you be punished for what a large number of your fellow countrymen are doing, blah blah etc etc.

[imdying]

I would have thought that it has been possible for all cars within the last 5 years to have had a GPS type speedo fitted.

There isn't a need, the existing setup it quite capable of being sufficiently accurate on unmodified vehicles. That's why your car/motorcycle reads xx% lower in speed, but still manages to record the correct mileage... given they both work from the same sensor, the only answer is that the manufacturer has specifically modified the speedo to read under.

[BlackSheepLogic]

As for the manufacturers making the speedos reading fast, I dont see it as their responsibility to compensate for driver decisions regarding how fast they choose to drive.

I'm sure they also don't see it as their responsibility either. But the way the UNECU regulations are written the clocks must not show a speed less than which the vehicle is traveling. The UNECU regulations go on to permit them to show an indicated speed greater than which the vehicle is traveling by as much as 10%.

So while the regulations don't make it the responsibility of the vehicle manufacture to indicate a speed greater than which the car is traveling it strongly influences how the vehicle manufacture should best comply with the requirements.

[scumdog]

My biggest issue with these lower tolerances over the holiday period is witnessing what Joe Muppet does when passing a police car or even just a van parked on the side of the road. They're only doing between 90 and 95 indicated speed anyway, yet they STILL put the brakes on going down to 80 and 85 in a 100kmph zone. It's just madness...

It's not just Madness that does that - lots of other do it too!

[_Shrek_]

What a fukkin bunch of cry baby pussies on here.

Got my only speeding ticket in '87.

Unlikely to get another one.

How hard is it , eh?

just as well I got mrs S a tractor then

maybe I should.....

[Big Dog]

What a fukkin bunch of cry baby pussies on here.

Got my only speeding ticket in '87.

Unlikely to get another one.

How hard is it , eh?

Sounds like it is much harder to get a ticket on a Harley.

Maybe instead of walking for a month prolific speeders should be sentenced to time on an HD?




Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[scumdog]

Sounds like it is much harder to get a ticket on a Harley.

Maybe instead of walking for a month prolific speeders should be sentenced to time on an HD?


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

T'wasn't a H-D (I never speed on that!)

T'was a '55 Ford F100 pick-up truck, an old dunger...