It is ass. I must have checked my speedo 500+ times over the three days of travel. That's alot of concentration and attention away from the road. What was wrong with a 10% threshold.55Kmh for a 50 zone, 110 kmh for 100kmh zone! I would go as far as saying that keeping the car between 100kmh and 104kmh is distracting and dangerous. One thing I did notice was there was a lot of Police having a field-day with the 4kmh tolerance. Safety or revenue!
granada,
Feb 16, 11:42pm
Revenue, easy targets, easy money. Its got nothing to do with road safety
leanne_6,
Feb 17, 12:12am
well the cops need to pay for their donuts some how
yogibearz,
Feb 17, 3:43am
why do they have a tolerence at all. The speed limit is 100 kmh. I know no one does that me included but why even have a limit if its not policed! I drove across the Desert Rd last weekend at up to 120 kmh in places and could not catch a bus thst was ahead of me.
lusty9,
Feb 17, 4:47am
100kmhr is fine with me, i set my cruise control and stay there
jkm,
Feb 17, 5:17am
I always travel at 82kmh so I am always safe, no nastie tickets for me. At passing lanes i speed up to 100kmh so the traffic can flow nicely and then i brake heavily for corners to avoid the road mines.
mugenb20b,
Feb 17, 5:20am
Everyone does that, not just you.
sifty,
Feb 17, 5:31am
You forgot to say you have stability control so you can do 82kmh around corners, in the wet, because the government says that is safe.
vjregal770,
Feb 17, 5:51am
+1000000000000
dave653,
Feb 17, 6:10am
Considering a lot of factory speedos can be anywhere up to 10% OUT anyway. Our auto VN almost drives itself. as said above, I'm watching the needle more than the road! And before you start going on about the cruise control. I can drive it more economically with my foot, better for the environment and all that.
berg,
Feb 17, 6:20am
How many times do we see this comment dragged out! You do realize that road policing has had its budgets cut by huge amounts, a huge amount of radars have been returned to the suppliers and road policing sees none of the money made from tickets. Surely, if the government considered speed tickets the "golden egg laying goose" more radars, more fuel, more staff, more resources would be poured into road policing.
The answer is simple as some one above has stated. Its dangerous. You would have to drive every where at 90kph or just over to ensure you dont break the speed limit. Try driving while sitting on exactly 100kph and try to calculate how much time you spend looking at the road and how much time is spent looking at your speedo to ensure you dont go over 100kph. A 10kph tolerance is important so that you dont spend too much time with your eyes off the road.
pauldw,
Feb 17, 6:38am
AFAIK countries that regulate speedos allow an over reading tolerance but no under reading. I'd expect most vehicles showing 100 on the clock to be doing around 95. Cruise control won't help if you've just crested a hill at 100, the car won't know to ease off until it's too late.
male_timaru,
Feb 17, 6:44am
that's marvellous so long as your odo isn't out by 5-10% the wrong way
rayzor14,
Feb 17, 6:57am
Of course none of this accounts for very basic variables such as the difference in rolling diameter of tyres. Take a new car with 6mm tread or there abouts. Now wait until tyres are down to minimum WOF standard of 1.5mm. How much did THAT throw the speedo out by at 100kph.
And what of the volume of cars that have had aftermarket wheels fitted by previous owners, dealers or in many cases in Japan. How many of those are accurate to within 4%! Not many at all.
Totally agree with the original sentiments that the 4kph tolerance demands far to much time looking at the dashboard and not nearly enough looking at the road ahead.
What the hell happened to common sense discretionary practice. e.g. a dick head forcing his way through motorway rush hour traffic at 109kph probably deserves a ticket. A guy travelling at 105kph whilst overtaking on a passing lane at 9am on a Sunday morning most definitely does not.
thejazzpianoma,
Feb 17, 7:00am
You poor misguided minion. You can easily get a ticket with your Cruise control set at that and using cruise control is no defense.
Two reasons for this:
1. When you set your cruise control for 100km/h the car will allow a certain amount of over-run going down hill. which of course is exactly where cops like to sit.
2. There is no 4km/h tolerance, thats hokum. The tolerance is 0 because the Police radar is only accurate to 4km/h at 100km/h.
The only saving grace is your speedometer has a built in margin to protect the manufacturer from litigation. However its not usually enough margin to correct for the over-run down hill of your cruise control.
thejazzpianoma,
Feb 17, 7:02am
Why do people keep referring to it as a 4km/h tolerance anyway! Why not call it what it is. a 0 tolerance!
jenny188,
Feb 17, 7:13am
I follow you every day, I'm sure. But one question , why do you change your car so often
pollymay,
Feb 17, 7:19am
People read FAR too much into the number of the speed. Look at traffic around you, go with it and don't be dumb. There is no way you can account for every single car on the road black and white saying 100 is fine 104 and you murder babies. Why are people so obsessed with taking a side with that number, I could go burn down all the signs in the country and it would be the same inattentive morons causing the problems.
It is a cash cow simply cause speed is a very ineffective measure of driver liable to cause accidents within the current tolerances. Think about it, the person doing 104 vs the one doing 100, you are dealing with all sorts of personality types and people, they may not be speeding cause they are reckless, they could just be doing it cause they think it's retarded, cause it's well within their limits and surrounding traffics, who knows but you just can't apply this notion they are more dangerous cause you are working in margins that in reality would make zero difference in an accident, literally zero.
jenny188,
Feb 17, 7:22am
Equating 110 to the road toll is misleading. Most fatal crashes occur at speeds far exceeding this. It won't stop those in stolen cars or those that are hitting boost etc. The point that is being overlooked is the thousands of kilometers of substandard roading this country has.
purple666,
Feb 17, 7:22am
The 4km/h would make sense if they upped the tolerance to 20km/h whenand after passing. Too many people out there on the roads are scared to put their foot down when passing, causing frustration to the following drivers.
coolnzmum,
Feb 17, 7:28am
Why do you have to watch the needle more.It doesn't matter what the speed limit is, or if you drive at 100 or 110 you are still keeping yourself at that speed.Instead of watching the needle all you need to do is put a little less pressure on the gas pedal.
coolnzmum,
Feb 17, 7:32am
The only reason you would have to watch the needle more is because you have taught yourself to drive at more than the speed limit.If you have always driven at the speed limit as you are meant to then there should be no change in your driving.
johnf_456,
Feb 17, 7:37am
As above
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