Average speed cameras

[Borys]

Whats your opinion or experience?
Today was on m25 after Gatwick junction-average speed cameras.Set up cruise on 50 and relaxing.So many drivers speeding and I mean like 3 of 5 doing 60-70.Crazy, they don 't care about their driving license or are just stupid?
Will they get a ticket, eventually?
Some are so annoying, tailgating literally trying to force you off their way

 

[o2drive]

If you are following the speed limit you should be in the left lane so they shouldn't need to "force " you out of the way and if the cameras were working they should get fined they did on the M275 recently

 

[c63chris]

It's not set up on all the gantrys/sections. If you know which is which you can ignore it like you've seen.

 

[kianok]

I go through the roadworks on the M1 that have been there since October between Leeds and Wakefield every day on my way to work.

I'm always amused by the people who fly through the average speed check at 70 + then slam their brakes on as they pass each camera!

 

[Major774]

I go through that part on the way to Bluewater but I usually sit on the left lane with my distronic on hehe.

 

[markjay]

The M2 had several miles of roadworks for a number of years, with a 50 miles speed limit and average speed cameras.

I was travelling on it frequently to and from a client based in Kent. On the way back I always stopped for refreshments at a petrol station half way through the roadworks stretch.

It occured to me that it was possible to drive at very high speed up to the petrol station, stop for a snack, then speed on through the second half of the strech, and never get caught for speeding...

 

[cinek]

Are we talking active traffic management or average speed cameras?

 

[Stratman]

If you are following the speed limit you should be in the left lane so they shouldn't need to "force " you out of the way and if the cameras were working they should get fined they did on the M275 recently

Unless you're passing a vehicle travelling lower than the speed limit.

 

[PXW]

The M2 had several miles of roadworks for a number of years, with a 50 miles speed limit and average speed cameras. I was travelling on it frequently to and from a client based in Kent. On the way back I always stopped for refreshments at a petrol station half way through the roadworks stretch. It occured to me that it was possible to drive at very high speed up to the petrol station, stop for a snack, then speed on through the second half of the strech, and never get caught for speeding...

The longer stretches of average speed control have multiple sets of cameras and you never know for sure which is paired with which...other than that (and obvious safety issues, before I get flamed!) your approach would work.

Personally I pop the speed limiter on in these sections - allows me to concentrate on traffic around me and not worry about creeping over the limit. Admittedly that does mean I rarely get through in the absolute minimum legal time (because of stretches where traffic brings me done to say 40mph, and I never go above the roadworks limit to make up the average) but it makes the driving easy.

Drove the M25 ones a couple of weeks ago, coming home from Ebbsfleet station. Twelve miles of restricted speed and no activity in the roadworks at all. I saw just one parked digger. In twelve miles....

 

[Sp!ke]

Didnt they admit recently that the variable speed cameras on the M25 weren't turned on?

 

[Tcarter]

Speeding!

I know that it's easy when you're on the open road or the motorway to exceed the speed limit by a bit.
But I agree, when someone is right up your back side and aren't backing off at all, it's just frustrating. I generally slow down to teach them a lesson. Of course only when it's safe.
But people who speed generally do get caught. This should give you some indication as to the issue of Speeding in the UK. I found it a good read.

7 million drivers caught speeding | Metro News

Granted its a few years out of date, but at least you get some comfort in knowling that they are being punished.

 

[ChrisA]

I know that it's easy when you're on the open road or the motorway to exceed the speed limit by a bit.
But I agree, when someone is right up your back side and aren't backing off at all, it's just frustrating. I generally slow down to teach them a lesson. Of course only when it's safe.
But people who speed generally do get caught. This should give you some indication as to the issue of Speeding in the UK. I found it a good read.

7 million drivers caught speeding | Metro News

Granted its a few years out of date, but at least you get some comfort in knowling that they are being punished.

Slowing down to teach them a lesson may not be the right choice, pulling in to allow them to overtake would be the right one. Many reasons for them going above the 50mph limit, family emergency, wife pregnant and rushed to hospital.... not an excuse to exceed the limit but certainly mitigating circumstances all of which you have no idea. Let them by and carry on your law abiding ways without worrying about others

 

[Deleted member 65149]

Slowing down to teach them a lesson may not be the right choice, pulling in to allow them to overtake would be the right one. Many reasons for them going above the 50mph limit, family emergency, wife pregnant and rushed to hospital.... not an excuse to exceed the limit but certainly mitigating circumstances all of which you have no idea. Let them by and carry on your law abiding ways without worrying about others

I agree totally. But it's amazing how many of the tailgaters seem to have an aversion to using the available overtaking lanes to their right. Alternatively, on single carriageways, there are those who try climbing into your boot when there's clearly a line of traffic in front of you that can't be passed. Some get the message when you slow down to leave a sizeable gap to the vehicle in front of you then blast away from them - but I'm amazed how many don't!

 

[Druk]

You need to install option code 272: 'Oily water windscreen back bumper spray'.

 

[BTB 500]

Still see lots of people braking to the posted limit for each camera then zooming off again. Is 'average speed' really such a difficult concept to grasp?

 

[Giantvanman]

Still see lots of people braking to the posted limit for each camera then zooming off again. Is 'average speed' really such a difficult concept to grasp?

The proliferation of this behaviour would strongly suggest that the concept is beyond many.

 

[Conquistador]

I’m regularly driving round the M25, sometimes with a colleague, and if he drives, he just sails through the current Northern stretch road works (with 50mph average cameras) at 65-70mph :S says he has never been caught.

That’s definitely not the right attitude but this would suggest to me the cameras are not active, or at least not set to trigger at that speed.

If your car has a tinted sun band along the top of the windscreen, you can usually see if the cameras are on by looking out for the infrared LEDs in the cameras as you pass under them. Just saying

 

[cinek]

If your car has a tinted sun band along the top of the windscreen, you can usually see if the cameras are on by looking out for the infrared LEDs in the cameras as you pass under them. Just saying

Until you come across the rear-facing specs.
Then good look with that

 

[SLK32AMG]

The ones on the M1 near Wakefield are defo working so beware my nefew works that way and has been done twice in last month both at 57mph and that was quite late no traffic. I told him he was stupid to be caught twice but they crossed he got caught the second time before he got 1st one through,now he has 6 points and is £120 lighter in his back pocket.

 

[del320]

You need to install option code 272: 'Oily water windscreen back bumper spray'.

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