Pulled over doing 101mph on motorway


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Problem is you put the speed limit up to 80 everyone will do 90+, including people in 20 year old rusted shit boxes that could have anything wrong with steering, suspension and braking components that won't get picked up in an MOT. Keep it at 70. That's the law and if you break it suck up your medicine like a big boy.
 
Sorry marra but this doesnt wash, its a concious effort.

Haway man - who hasn't driven over a ton before? I've only got up to 120, but I bet there's a few on here who are members of the 150 club.

Anyway, I see speed limits as advisory limits for drivers who don't have the wit to determine what's safe at the time - not something to take any real notice of.
 
Haway man - who hasn't driven over a ton before? I've only got up to 120, but I bet there's a few on here who are members of the 150 club.

Anyway, I see speed limits as advisory limits for drivers who don't have the wit to determine what's safe at the time - not something to take any real notice of.

I find that its only by driving at 100+ can you keep the 70mph brigade out of the outside lane
 
Problem is you put the speed limit up to 80 everyone will do 90+, including people in 20 year old rusted shit boxes that could have anything wrong with steering, suspension and braking components that won't get picked up in an MOT. Keep it at 70. That's the law and if you break it suck up your medicine like a big boy.

I wouldn't have thought high speed driving would stress these components as much as stop - start city driving TBH.
 
I've heard from a traffic cop that he wouldn't stop anyone on the motorway unless they were going over 90, tailgating, or in an older car. Said that most modern cars are ok at speeds up to 90, its just the older ones that aren't as reliable and could be a lot more dangerous
 
Problem is you put the speed limit up to 80 everyone will do 90+, including people in 20 year old rusted shit boxes that could have anything wrong with steering, suspension and braking components that won't get picked up in an MOT. Keep it at 70. That's the law and if you break it suck up your medicine like a big boy.

I don't think this is a convincing argument against raising the speed limit. They could just as likely fall apart at 70, and the results wouldn't be much different.
 
I don't think this is a convincing argument against raising the speed limit. They could just as likely fall apart at 70, and the results wouldn't be much different.

Well, they would. It would be more dangerous
 
Some right hypocrites on here.

It seems the tiny minority of drivers who obey speed limits religiously all post on here. :roll:

So the OP did over 100mph, so what? Far safer to do that on a clear motorway, statistically the safest roads, than doing 40 in a 30mph zone. When anyone mentions three figure speeds, people seem to wet their pants. 100mph really isn't fast in a decent modern car.

The 70mph was brought out in the age of Ford Anglias with cross ply tyres and drum brakes. I bet it's a lot safer to do 100mph in a Ford Focus than 70 in one of those.

Even braking distances that students are taught are 40-odd years out of date. The powers that be really have done a good job in fooling people that anything over their abitrary limits is necessarily dangerous. Four decades on with better, vastly safer cars and we haven't moved on at all in terms of speed.

It's high time high speed driving (amongst other things) was a required part of the test and the motorway speed limit raised. If you can't concentrate at 100mph, you really have no business being on a motorway at all.

There should be a massive shift away from speed awareness and towards bad driving awareness. It's a very lazy and dangerous mistake to fool people into believing that legal speed = safe driving. We're breeding a nation of brainwashed, pants-wetting zombie drivers.

More or less what I said in an earlier post & I couldn't agree more. If it were up to me...

-The driving test would be much more difficult and include motorway driving, changing a wheel, checking tyre pressures and fluid levels
-The minimum age for driving should be raised unless in the forces
-People should be made to re-take their driving test every 10 years
 
More or less what I said in an earlier post & I couldn't agree more. If it were up to me...

-The driving test would be much more difficult and include motorway driving, changing a wheel, checking tyre pressures and fluid levels
-The minimum age for driving should be raised unless in the forces
-People should be made to re-take their driving test every 10 years

Min age for driving 25 would be great. They can't bloody afford it anyway :lol:
 
More or less what I said in an earlier post & I couldn't agree more. If it were up to me...

-The driving test would be much more difficult and include motorway driving, changing a wheel, checking tyre pressures and fluid levels
-The minimum age for driving should be raised unless in the forces
-People should be made to re-take their driving test every 10 years

I'd agree, but only for those with major driving convictions. It'd be a waste of resources retesting clean drivers.
 
What a ridiculous thing to say. Aye if you're driving a bloody toaster. What is it with the 100mph psychological barrier people have when it comes to driving on a motorway?

The 70mph limit was set in 1970. 41 years ago. The average family car, say a Ford Cortina had a braking distance of almost three times that of a modern 2010 Ford Focus. The incorporation of ABS onto all cars was enough to raise the speed limit, never mind traction control, electronic stability control, brake assist plus, active yaw control, electronic brake force control... the list goes on.

There is so much misplaced onus on the actual speed people are doing these days that we are constantly staring at our speedometers instead of the road ahead of us.

Instead of teaching people to slow down they should teach people how to drive.

Great post.
 
Why not? it's just a notional high speed because of our fingers. I advocate it and wish they'd change the law to allow it.

I think my comment was maybe a little hasty. My rant was more down to the OP seemingly only being bothered because he was actually caught.

That's rubbish, like. I'm a big advocate for an overhaul in the speed limit laws, lower and strictly enforced in built up areas, flexible on motorways.

As I say, perhaps I was a little hasty.

It comes largely down to circumstance.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Aye if you're driving a bloody toaster. What is it with the 100mph psychological barrier people have when it comes to driving on a motorway?

Same goes to you, Doctor Diesel.

You'll be surprised to learn that one of my pet hates is people driving too slowly :oops:

There is so much misplaced onus on the actual speed people are doing these days that we are constantly staring at our speedometers instead of the road ahead of us.

Agree completely with that part, too.

Some right hypocrites on here.

It seems the tiny minority of drivers who obey speed limits religiously all post on here. :roll:

So the OP did over 100mph, so what? Far safer to do that on a clear motorway, statistically the safest roads, than doing 40 in a 30mph zone. When anyone mentions three figure speeds, people seem to wet their pants. 100mph really isn't fast in a decent modern car.

The 70mph was brought out in the age of Ford Anglias with cross ply tyres and drum brakes. I bet it's a lot safer to do 100mph in a Ford Focus than 70 in one of those.

Even braking distances that students are taught are 40-odd years out of date. The powers that be really have done a good job in fooling people that anything over their abitrary limits is necessarily dangerous. Four decades on with better, vastly safer cars and we haven't moved on at all in terms of speed.

It's high time high speed driving (amongst other things) was a required part of the test and the motorway speed limit raised. If you can't concentrate at 100mph, you really have no business being on a motorway at all.

There should be a massive shift away from speed awareness and towards bad driving awareness. It's a very lazy and dangerous mistake to fool people into believing that legal speed = safe driving. We're breeding a nation of brainwashed, pants-wetting zombie drivers.

All fair points again.

How do people feel about the national speed limit on windy country lanes, out of interest?
 
was doing 80 on the way to washington a couple years ago, went to over take and this 4x4 appeared from no where doing at least 130 he came so close he had to break pretty hard and near lost the road. Could have been really nasty. Anyway, the f***ing idiot over took me after trying to ram me off the road :)shock:), parked his car across the roundabout exit and approached my car - red with anger and said...

"are you f***ing stupid, i'm doing well over a tonne with my 8 year lad in the car - you're going to cause an accident daft ****" :lol:
 
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