Pete317 wrote:
In Gear wrote:
This family of petrolheads keep telling me to chill out, that law is ass and life is a bitch! I try to enforce the law with some common-sense - but that is difference between me and a robot!
No argument with you there, but you do get some BiBs who regard common sense as a foreign concept.
Oh - there are "jobworths" in every profession. About 15% fall into this category - all politically correct and not very good at their work either!
Pete317 wrote:
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Ah! But if artic. truck is doing 50mph in a 50mph zone - do you really need to overtake it?
If the overtake will take you above speed limit and perhaps in danger of getting pinged with no discretion and quite arbitrarily and by chance by a Prolaser3 a mile away -I would think twice!
(This could show how dangerous to drivers (and perhaps safety) the Prolaser3 is likely to be!
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I didn't say it was a 50 zone, in fact I strongly implied that it was NSL.
I know - was being deliberately contrary! In all probability - we would see the manoeuvre as intended by driver. Most of us would apply common senses in reality - if overtake's overspeed was safe and reasonably justified. Possibly we would follow just to make sure that you had corrected speed back to legality - but most of us would not be too prissy about short blast to clear an overtake under these circumstances. But cannot say same about the robot version!
In answer to PeteE's question - no I do not think the Prolaser 3 is a good thing, nor do I think it right to use in indiscriminately - because that is how it would be used at such distances. And the paperwork
And the emergency cars, ambulances, police, doctors on call, blood and donor transportation, fire engines, bomb disposal units ..... plus all the ones who may get zapped just in or just outside the speed change zone
All this came to light in the French tests last summer - according to our road safety nerd based in EU!
It certainly would not rid our roads of very dangerous drivers, and it will just fuel further anger and resentments - and most of it directed at me and my colleagues and not the Prats in charge of it
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