Way too many posts to read, but our Odyssey says 100km on the speedo and my NAVMAN says 92km. So my car is 8km slower than what it says.so I cruise at 10km above what the limit says.cops dont seem to pull me up!
atomic5star,
Mar 14, 8:02pm
well i just recieved two tickets for 55kphfor $30.001 hour and 45 mins apart and in that time between 332 notices had been issued - not bad roughlyfive grand an hour revenue for the crown.the tolerance had been lowered for kids in schools campaign which went for 1 month.I was over approx 1 kilometre from any school. Random road tax. I now have no respect for the law
sgrants,
Mar 14, 8:23pm
just to clear up speedo operation; odometer is gear driven and separate gear drives a magnetic coupler to the speedo needle, so generally odo will be spot on, speedo needle can be out but can be adjusted withmore or less tension on the balance spring!
thewomble1,
Mar 15, 2:02am
(Not sure of the country) but the fines for speeding are calculated on your income. There have been fines well over $10,000 sothink yourself lucky that it was only $30.
carmedic,
Mar 15, 6:09am
Lol one step at a time mate, they need to start by actually checking the Speedo works like everyone else doing WoF??
mattyj5,
Mar 15, 7:45am
Hey Zak1998.I know how you feel mate, I got the same $30 camera ticket a couple of weeks ago also. Seems pretty unfair when most of the Police cars in our town travel at 60Kph on a regular basis. Sound like a money making scheme to me. I have an idea though that will give us motorists the upper hand.every time you see a camera van on the road, go back up the road and stick a warning sign on a post. If they can play dirty why cant we!
pitchey,
Mar 20, 9:50am
From reading this it appears to have been cut and pasted from a US website, not quite correct in regards to NZ.
spead,
Mar 20, 6:09pm
every 5km per hour over the speed limit increases the chance of a fatality if you hit a pedestrian by more than you think.Pay up.
tonyrockyhorror,
Apr 20, 5:06pm
And if you don't hit a pedestrian because the pedestrian isn't wandering onto the road without looking and because you as an observant driver slow and stop for any using a crossing or on the footpath through a vehicle crossing see them, they cannot possibly die from being run over.
saxman99,
Apr 20, 5:25pm
Switzerland. They handed out one a short while back that was in the millions.
gedo1,
Apr 20, 7:13pm
Sweden.
clanky,
Apr 21, 5:59am
Years ago in UK, I was defending a charge and read up about speedos/odometers in their Road Traffic (construction and use) act. This stated that speedometers are not allowed if they read below the actual speed being travelled, but the legal tolerance is +0, -10% plus/minus 4 kph (and they use mph!). As most Japanese/European cars have to meet this law, surely the imports here meet the same rules!
delerium1,
Apr 21, 7:05am
Rubbish.
You cant say that because it isnt true.
bashfulbro,
Apr 21, 7:18am
Correct, the system is designed that way,smaller fines ensure that people will continue to offend,and keep paying, earning the taxman billions,in the long term. Look at the cell phone use, while driving law. fines were deliberately set low ,as not to curb the habit, but to ensure a huge tax take over the years. That, is how the country has to operate, crime and law breaking, is a huge industry, and anyone who thinks that politicians, or police, want to reduce offending, is deluded.
sr2,
Apr 21, 7:25am
I run a Monit Rally computer in the race car and often set it to max speed on touring stages as a speeding ticket will incur a time penalty that??
poppajn,
Apr 21, 7:31am
There used to be speed camera areasign,s, but theywere removed some years ago.
saxman99,
Apr 21, 7:53am
Switzerland. The driver was Swedish, but the ticket was in Switzerland.
Well dont drive on the road and you wont get "taxed". Dont call the "law" when your house gets broken into or you are a victim of crime! tosser.
bashfulbro,
Apr 21, 9:15am
Yeah, don`t call the law, theyre too busy collecting tax on the roads.
n1smo_gtir,
Apr 21, 3:22pm
Get a decent radar but try not to speed. Radar is a mere reminder incase you slipped your mind. If you have a phone with gps built in use it. Get a software to show you gps speed n put a speed warning reminder at 50kmph.
gedo1,
Apr 21, 5:18pm
Oops my error.I should have been more specific so here you go. "European countries are increasingly pegging speeding fines to income as a way to punish wealthy scofflaws who would otherwise ignore tickets.
Advocates say a $290,000 speeding ticket slapped on a millionaire Ferrari driver in Switzerland was a fair and well-deserved example of the trend.
Germany, France, Austria and the Nordic countries also issue punishments based on a person's wealth. In Germany the maximum fine can be as much as $16 million compared to only $1 million in Switzerland. Only Finland regularly hands out similarly hefty fine to speeding drivers, with the current record believed to be a $190,000 ticket in 2004." Doesn't pay to speed in Finland.We sometimes work with a company in a suburb of Helsinki. They have a Ferrari dealer on the corner of their streetand when I e-mailed them about this (among other things) they (being very conscientious) went and discussed traffic law in Finland with this dealer.They were told in all seriousness that some of those who buy the Ferraris ask about having speed governors in them, or at least ask about having loud over speed warning klaxon in them.What!I like the Finns and their sense of humour!
cjdnzl,
Apr 21, 6:01pm
Every 5km per hour over ZERO km/h increases the chance of a fatality if you hit a pedestrian.There's nothing magic about speed limits - 99km/h is safe, 104km/h is dangerous!Gimme a break, people who think like that are mentally challenged.
ema1,
Apr 22, 10:15am
Speedo inaccuracy is variable due to tyre wear and that's more relevant to larger wheeled vehicles like trucks. Worn tyres on my truck that were replaced by new ones exactly the same brand and size over 500km drive actually showed a 16km difference between worn and new, quite a variation there for sure, 502km ended up as 486km for same trip. Those indicated speed trailer signs you see about the place as well as the fixed speed indicators recently showed in my trucks case I was doing 88km/h at 90km/h indicated on speedo with new tyres fitted all round and the week before the same speed indicator unit showed I was doing 84km/h at 90km/h showing on truck speedo when the worn tyres were on it, so quite a difference really! The variation between worn and new tyres on cars will be less of course but degrees of variation is present in all cases as wear component is vectored in.
pauldw,
Apr 23, 1:05pm
How many cars still use gear driven speedos!
AFAIK my odo, speedo get their reference from the ABS system. Over a 100km journey the odo is within 0.5km of a GPS log. The speedo seems to be 5km fast at both 50 and 100 ie not a constant %.
tonyrockyhorror,
Apr 23, 1:40pm
As a percentage of vehicles on NZ roads! Most.
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