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- May 25, 2012
- Messages
- 492
- Location
- North West
- Car
- 2018 E220d S213 ||| 2012 E500 4.7 V8 Bi-Turbo Cabrio ||| 2021 Mercedes Sprinter Hymer Camper Van
This morning, driving from up from Toulouse on the return leg of our Europe trip, my Distronic thought it funny to accelerate and trigger a speed camera !
I know the piece of road very well and I know where the camera is.
The stretch of road is a 90 kmph limit just before you leave the A84 to get onto the Bordeaux Périphérique going anti - clockwise towards Paris.
The car was set to follow speed limits on Distronic.
I must have taken my eye of the ball as just before the camera the car sped up and triggered it! Weird as both the lanes leading off that junction are 90 kmph. The speed sign display on the car was showing 90 leading up to the camera and then changed to 130 kmph just before it causing the car to accelerate.
I reckon I was doing about 100 kmph when it flashed so the fine is likely only to be 45 Euro.
Maybe its an elaborate scam by the French authorities to feed duff data to the system to rake in money from cars on auto pilot...
This is on top of the 36 Euro bottle of oil I bought from Mercedes in Barcelona that the car told me it needed - which it didn’t ..
On the other hand the hotel we stayed at in Barcelona seems to have forgotten to charge us the 50 Euro fee for car parking so, mustn’t grumble too much.
I know the piece of road very well and I know where the camera is.
The stretch of road is a 90 kmph limit just before you leave the A84 to get onto the Bordeaux Périphérique going anti - clockwise towards Paris.
The car was set to follow speed limits on Distronic.
I must have taken my eye of the ball as just before the camera the car sped up and triggered it! Weird as both the lanes leading off that junction are 90 kmph. The speed sign display on the car was showing 90 leading up to the camera and then changed to 130 kmph just before it causing the car to accelerate.
I reckon I was doing about 100 kmph when it flashed so the fine is likely only to be 45 Euro.
Maybe its an elaborate scam by the French authorities to feed duff data to the system to rake in money from cars on auto pilot...
This is on top of the 36 Euro bottle of oil I bought from Mercedes in Barcelona that the car told me it needed - which it didn’t ..
On the other hand the hotel we stayed at in Barcelona seems to have forgotten to charge us the 50 Euro fee for car parking so, mustn’t grumble too much.