Digital speed signs

[F5 Dave]

. . . but of course it can't get a bike's number so nothing to worry about.

Until there are enough pictures of the front of bikes that it is splashed about the papers & the powers that be decide we all need front facing number plates (despite the difficulty of some bikes to fit such a plate) lest the road toll goes up & other such reasons involving revenue.

GPS is probably the best if performed over distance. I doubt if those roadside ones would be pessimistic. One can imagine the potential backlash if it turned out they were. Guvermint sponsoring baby killing display devices etc.

[Crisis management]

It's funny how we behave with them isn't it? When they first came out locally they would read your speed and I always used to slow down if it was reading over 60, now they just go to "slow down" at over 60 and i get mildly annoyed and speed up!

Human psyche, eh?

[Mikkel]

Yup, they're really good for finding your speedo deviation at various speeds. - And we all know how important knowing that can be!!!

[mowgli]

I find the one on Glenmore St in Wellington always reads about 5 low and picks me up really late if at all. I've heard that Hyo speedos are often out but I don't know how seriously to take this reading. 5 low at 50 would be 10 out at a hundy which would be pretty bad. I wonder if the low reading is related to the late pickup and the fact that by then I'm going past the box at an angle rather than directly toward it.

[Hitcher]

Memo to LTNZ: How are you supposed to calibrate your speedo on something that goes off-scale at 60kmh? And "Slow Down Now". What's that about? Where's the "Please"? Whatever happened to good old-fashioned manners?

[Ocean1]

Now that you mention it, (OK you didn't, shut up) I don't remember having seen one of those special magic speedo confirminating 5km pieces of road for a while, with the signs an' all. They still around? or don't the budget cover that any more?

[BOGAR]

They put them up to help inform people of what speed they are doing, to try and help get the speed down. The people i work for organise were they go, in and around Rotorua. (Except for the fact that it stopped working when it rained the other day). It is just a nother device they like to use.
Borrow a GPS if you wont to check your speed. you may find it really is low. mines out by 7km at 100kmh

[Badjelly]

Memo to LTNZ: How are you supposed to calibrate your speedo on something that goes off-scale at 60kmh?

Do you think, just maybe, that a display that reads higher than 60 km/h might be seen by some people as a challenge? Not by any KBers, obviously.

[FROSTY:Me]

What speed sighns?? The only sighns Ive ever seen say SLOW --Never have figgered out wot thats sposed to mean -and me on my bicycle peddling too

[Badjelly]

The only signs I've ever seen say SLOW --Never have figgered out wot thats sposed to mean

You're going too SLOW. Duh.

[Monsterbishi]

Noticed that there is a new digital speed sighn outside Princess Marg. Hospital in Chch. There is also one in Centaurus Rd. That's two that I know in Chch. Any one know of the policy on this or is this just a prelude for speed camera placements. Do they record the number of speeding motorists, time etc. for evaluation purposes.

Skyryder

Haven't been involved with the Princess Marg. pole mount unit yet, but the Centaurus Rd site has been used to trial the new speed camera units that will be entering service soon.

Its long term use is as a warning device for that corner, people hit it too fast and end up coming off 2nd best.

The cities first plate recognition speed camera's will be fitted into the Lytellton tunnel this year, along with a additional 26 surveillance camera's

[grusomhat]

They put them up to help inform people of what speed they are doing, to try and help get the speed down. The people i work for organise were they go, in and around Rotorua. (Except for the fact that it stopped working when it rained the other day). It is just a nother device they like to use.
Borrow a GPS if you wont to check your speed. you may find it really is low. mines out by 7km at 100kmh

I've worked mine out to be out by 20%. Nice and easy at 50 and 100k's but takes a bit of thinking at 60 and 70 and not as easy to keep a track of on the speedo.

[90s]

Over in West Auckland we have quite a few of these and they move them around a lot. The Gt North Rd one by the big cemetary is now on Titirangi Rd, where it has been for a few months.
At first cages slow to 50ks. Then by the 3rd time they realise there is not any 'penalty' and cruise by at 60+. This causes some unsafe situations because they are not being placed by schools or crossings but on wide open stretches.

And for bikes I am not confident they peg our speed right. For my bike they usually flicker between 49kph to 63kph, flash "SLOW DOWN" then back to 49kph.
All the time I do a steedy unvarying 50kph, which I think is handily 60kph on the speedo.
All clear?

Happen to anyone else or is my bike fitted with some type of stealth system?

[gw555]

Yeah a similar thing happens to me. I went past one the other day at, according to my speedo, 50km/h told me I was doing 67 so I went back past it, again according to my speedo at 60km/h and it said I was doing 41 so...............

[90s]

I wonder what a court would think if you defended your speeding fine on the basis that you assumed this gizmo said 50kph when in fact you were doing 80kph and you calibrated off its inaccurate reading ...