Speeding on sites
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Freddy
I think it was in a previous thread I mentioned I use a dashcam in my motorhome and usually leave it on whilst navigating site roads. When I reviewed the footage the GPS speed (which I consider a more accurate way of measuring real speed) I was doing varied between about 3 and 9 miles per hour. Personally I don't think I was a danger to anyone as my concentration was looking where I was going and what was happening around me.
David
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I'm inclined to agree with Freddy55. Whilst the 4 3/4 sign is amusing, I wonder if it was set at 8mph, there would be a greater conformity to the limit as it seems somehow more specific than 5mph. which is perhaps mentally interpreted as 'keep your speed down' without being regarded as an actual limit.
In compliance with the "Declaration of Interests", my MH does 8mph on tickeover in 2nd.
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thats strange....even my dad's old (late 60's) Ford Escort Auto had a three speed slush box and 1st/2nd 'gears' could be held.
robotised manuals, like his latest Peugeot can also be driven in a manual mode.
AFAIK, even the wonderful CVT (Daf) transmissions could 'simulate' gears to aid 'engine braking' like a manual...
so, all in all, not that difficult to understand even for an 'auto' driver?
as soon as a manual car changes up into second (unless it has a very low range gearbox) will make the car engine/transmission less comfortable at 5mph than ticking over in 1st.
for those who 'dont know what gears are' just keep your foot on the brake and your eyes open
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In compliance with the "Declaration of Interests", my MH does 8mph on tickeover in 2nd.
My X Trail is similar. But the question is why spell tickover with an 'e'. I am not being clever or picky CY but I notice that many do and is fairly common and I wonder why?
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I didn't type an 'e'. It was an incompetent adjustment of the autocorrect changing what I typed to 'ticker'. This keyboard has a mind of its own. In first mine does 4mph, so I'm probably holding people up. Would 8mph be regarded as excessive speed if the limit was changed? That would cover vehicles on tickover in either 1st or 2nd gear. Still too fast for a sleeping policeman though.
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In first mine does 4mph, so I'm probably holding people up.
You would not be holding me up CY. If I go through a barrier and the next vehicle waits for it to drop and them operates it again then if he appears quickly in my mirrors the likelihood is that he has sped and he is welcome to follow me around at 4mph.
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CY, a couple of lovely newly re-shaped sleeping policemen on the Retail park near where I live. shorter than before and a fraction lower, but by 'eck they make my cutlery bounce in the back of the 'van no matter what speed I'm doing. They do make the mixed veg stir themselves though !!
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Two kiddies dead that I know of. If I was to speed there could have been one more. The fatalities have not been due to speed. It is not that I consider the speeding that occurs to necessarily be dangerous. I simply consider it to be inconsiderate and ill mannered
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I tend to shift ,into sport mode and select first at the entry barrier when with c/van on the hook or solo then i know we are doing just under 5mph ,(much to the annoyance it seems with any one behind) as noted on one site when we were overtaken
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As ET states there have been two deaths of very young children on cc sites not to mention several who have been hurt all involving on site vehicles although no driver has been at fault,as far as i am aware none of the vehicles were "speeding?"
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I walk briskly and know that on a tarmac surface I will be stepping it out at around four and a half miles per hour. So the impatient driver of the motor vehicle behind blowing his horn must be wanting to do more than that. What a pity my hearing is not what it used to be . . . .
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Am I the only one who takes a perverse pleasure in slowing down, (if I'm driving at the correct speed) when someone decides to drive right up your a**e?
It's not just on sites, it's everywhere on our roads and I am astounded and angered on a daily basis by the selfishness and ignorance of many people on our roads today.
Maybe I'm just getting older.......
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